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Inno3D ready to ship Fermi GTX470 / 480 - Exclusive pictures

please take a step back and look at yourselves, arguing over brands of graphics cards is one thing but you're arguing over cardboard boxes now :(
 
Because some boxes don't have these sleeves, that means these mustn't, and because they don't, the flap indicates they're fake and empty. :mad:

:p
 
even if the boxes are empty they are obviously getting ready to be filled, or is somebody going to suggest that these companies get these boxes made up, a picture taken and that picture let out into the big wide world that is the inter-web, just so people on this forum have something to argue about.

bottom line they are coming out at the end of the month and this is what the boxes from this company will look like.
 
Rroff said:
And we are sure they are the boxes bending open rather than say... document wallets stuck to the front?
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Very, very very sure, they are empty, there is no argument.

I'd also be genuinely interested to know where you work and what brands of gpu cards you've sold, in 20 years of buying gpu's, mobo's, cpu's, memory, heatsinks, etc, etc, aswell as working at one of OCUK's rivals and visiting 3-4 warehouses of other computer parts retailers over the last decade, I can say outside of fans, and a few select components I've pretty much never once seen a GPU or MOBO box shrink wrapped.

I actually can't remember a single specific mobo/gpu that was shrink wrapped, this is taking thousand into warehouses and shipping them out, but while I don't remember any I'm sure there must be more than one that has done.

Fans, some heatsinks, some other small stuff, even then most fans and smaller bits don't come shrink wrapped. THings like retail DVD's from certain brands like Sony would probably come shrink wrapped, but unsurprisingly the vast vast majority of dvd's I saw sold were OEM, its like people don't want to pay 10-30% more for a cardboard box and outdated crappy version of powerdvd :p

Anyway, those boxes are empty, and we saw box art of several things quite a while back with nothing in, one thing from the day before Cebit opened for one thing.

IN general they won't print finished box art till closer to the date it has to go out, but its still got to be ready before they are ready to ship cards. I don't see why some cards when the launch is as late as the end of March, wouldn't be ready to go though.

I'm still wondering if I should buy one, for the sake of having bought one and because, especially if they have done a very limited run, after the sell out 2nd hand price will probably be over retail.

So grab one, see for myself, play with it, use it as a room heater for the last month we still get spring frosts in, then sell it at a profit, win win.
 
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Vekiq said:
Some of us here are anxious to see this cards released, but just try and imagine how anxious are nvidia guys to get them out, lol and they are aware of what and when they can get them out, they must be having heart attacks galore in their teams, knowing the truth and not being able to do anything about it.

Kinda feel sorry for them
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Why feel sorry for them? This leak has had its intended effect: bottom line is people are talking about Nvidia products, or should I say, boxes. I'm sure they're chuffed with how things are going all things considered.
 
I dunno I'm not convinced the creases in them look a bit weird for normal box sides... but its not really that clear to make out anything for deffinate.

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In my eyes it looks like it's the flap, on the side of the box that opens, is not tucked in enough.
 
Arguing about cardboard boxes and the percentage of how many are shrink wrapped! SORT YOUR LIFE OUT!!!!!

Did it ever cross your mind that the boxes are manufactured by a separate company and this is simply a consignment of empty boxes. I agree, it would be a bit weird that they would come already "made-up", and not flat-packed, but the ones we see could just be a box of...er...box samples?

How is this thread still going?
 
keep the thread clean pls, box related info only:D
I loved the box my Asus 6800GE (thought it was a GT:() came in, it was the size of a small suitcase and had a carry handle, made me feel id spent my £260 well lol
 
I've got another ASUS anecdote, just snapped up one of their 5850s and I had a laugh when it got here. The inside box was all black and stylish with gold lettering, inside that I was greeted with compartments made up of 3 more boxes with the same fancy black & gold. I thought I was in for a treat regarding some nice extras, turns out they're empty and only space-fillers to stop the card sliding about. :rolleyes:


Back on topic though, it says in the OP that the Fermis come with a mouse mat. Could it be that shrinkwrapped to the outside of the box?
 
tbh im realy unhappy with the boxes my sapphire vapor-X 5870's came in, id trade both my cards with boxes for 1 empty gtx480 box
 
Rroff said:
I dunno I'm not convinced the creases in them look a bit weird for normal box sides... but its not really that clear to make out anything for deffinate.

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Actually if you look at the box cover, its not flat, its textured, that swirly black line is a bump, as its the GTX which is depressed slightly it looks, the back of the box probably just follows that design through, that bump you can see inside the box is most likely that, the textured top side means the underside doesn't look flat.

The boxes are empty, as said, go grab any mobo/gpu box, take out the inner box that most have, and see what a loose outer shell box does, it will bend out like that in general because thats what they do.

They probably got a shipment of their final design boxes in and made a few up to see what they look like, why/how they took pictures and put them up on the web I couldn't tell you, just to spark some more Fermi talk around the world.

I mean its fair to say boxes being readied mean they are on their way as its another one in many steps that get done before release, but its not like we don't know when they are being released.

PS, we're talking about it, because we're bored, I think its fair to say number of Fermi box threads will go down sharply after the 26th March.

I expect a Fermi heatsink shipment leaked picture, a Fermi manual, a guy in a Fermi mascot suit to be picture, for the guy who gets to run around in a big mascot outfit at the Fermi launch, and some other random crap to be pictured between now and the 26th, and several threads on them too.


EDIT:- I also missed the single most obvious thing, anyone thats unloaded anything thats marginally heavy, you take one box out, leaving 4, a piece of slightly loose cardboard is not enough to push 4 other boxes out to allow space for a cardboard flap to flex.... unless the boxes are empty. A full box especially with a card the size of fermi, and its car radiator sized heatsink, would not be pushed across by a piece of cardboard ;)
 
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woooo... all this fuss over a box? Please people :p It's a box lol It's coming out on the 26th march. Investigating box pictures isn't going to change that. Just be patient :cool:.
 
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