XFX to Ship Radeon HD 5970 in a P90 Gun Case

[jn77]

I wonder what the retail price would be with out the millions of dollars spent on a worthless retail package?

 

[anamaniac]

[citation][nom]Marcus Yam[/nom]As a Canadian, my idea of a deadly weapon is a hockey stick and a blindside hit to the head.[/citation]
This has made my night. Thanks Marcus.

I'd actually rather have the card come shipped in a real gun case (solid thick black plastic, dark foam padding etc.).
Kind of ugly to be honest...

But for supposedly only $100 more, and doubling the VRAM, I wouldn't put high hopes on the level of handpicking (short of just being a factory overclock of 60MHz instead of 50MHz).

 

[imageraiter]

XFX is sending a message to Nvidia.

"We're gonna shoot you down"

 

[descendency]

Where is the media to blame gun cases for video cards on gang violence now???

 

[OvrClkr]

dude i cannot wait for the benchmarks on this box vs. a fermi box

well that would not be fair would it?

how about dual 480's with mature drivers in lets say 3 months?

 

[r3t4rd]

[citation][nom]OvrClkr[/nom]well that would not be fair would it?how about dual 480's with mature drivers in lets say 3 months?[/citation]
Um....did you not get the joke/sarcasm? He said "Box". All we have been getting from Nvidia before the benchmarks were all boxes of the Fermi derivatives. *Sigh...rolls eyes*

 

[shreeharsha]

XFX plans to release nVidia 480 X2 card in a Furnace shaped box (hand picked 480 GPUs for more heat generation)

 

[OvrClkr]

Um....did you not get the joke/sarcasm? He said "Box". All we have been getting from Nvidia before the benchmarks were all boxes of the Fermi derivatives. *Sigh...rolls eyes*

that is exactly why I said it, just to see if someone would pop up and say something :lol:

that XFX box totaly pwns any NV GTX 4 series box, funny thing is that XFX is not going to make a 470/480's bummer..

 

[saran008]

XFX rocks!
Anyway this seems to be dangerous idea!

 

[maximiza]

its a kick ass box to package a video card.

 

[treefrog07]

Maybe we could convice XFX to install a LASER pointer in the barrel so we can use the box at the office.

 

[jitpublisher]

We won't see these in the US until mid November, it will take them that long to clear customs.

 

[mrboycom]

still good if they give reasonable prize.

 

[christop]

that's sick love it!!!

 

[kdashjl]

AMD even win the box war
why NVIDIA why

 

[cptnjarhead]

I wanted the worlds fastest video card.. but all i got was this stupid gun case.

 

[Guest]

As a Canadian, my ideal weapon would be a CZ-858 and a Glock 17.
...and a hockey stick.

In other news, that's a wicked looking case. Let's hope Jack Thompson doesn't see this and starts a campaign against evil looking video cards.

 

[bildo123]

I can see why they give such an elaborate case, that card is simply massive. Also, I really hope that's not the same fan XFX used on their 4870 (I currently own). First thing I did was drop that horrid stock heatsink/fan. Fan was way too loud. And guessing the amount of heat this will pump out, that fan doesn't look anywhere near enough to handle the card without sounding like a jet. At least during gaming.

 

[kikireeki]

Well, what I am really afraid of now, is a real machine gun in a shape of Radeon HD 5970 case!

 

[Gin Fushicho]

When I read the title I thought they were gonna give you an actual "case" that usually holds a P90, not a box that they made up too look like the gun. My enthusiasm is gone.

 

[virustwin]

um am i the only one who realises that thats NOT a p90 but an F2000?

 

[meepstone]

[citation]Admittedly, I'm not that familiar with guns. As a Canadian, my idea of a deadly weapon is a hockey stick and a blindside hit to the head.[/citation]

But they just banned the blindside hit to the head!

 

[knowom]

I'm sure whoever gets one of those will get a killer nic to go with it lol.

 

[Marcus Yam]

[citation][nom]meepstone[/nom]But they just banned the blindside hit to the head![/citation]
(offtopic)And I'm super glad that the NHL did. The sort of stuff that's happened to Marc Savard and David Booth should have been outlawed years ago when the headshot rule was first discussed. I'm glad that they're keeping the north/south hits but I still think that headshots should be ruled out regardless of direction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlPntOMZQRg (/offtopic)

 

[Guest]

This will help me murder you. In game of course.