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One of the most impressive features of this card is how well it’s packaged. This card comes in one of the nicest boxes we’ve seen. If you’ve been a fan of Asus ROG branding and features, you’ll love the way this card looks and how it was packaged. On the front of the box there is a huge ROG graphic in the right hand corner and a ROG badge at the top left. Asus has decked the box out in their black and red ROG color scheme as well.
Inside the box you’ll find that the card is very well insulated by foam padding and there is also a numbered plate that comes with the card. This plate shows you which card you have out of the 999 that were made. This once again shows that this is meant to be a collector’s item and not really for the mainstream consumer. They have also included documentation on the back of the plate that states its authenticity and uniqueness as a collector’s item. This plate also states that each aluminum plate is individually lasered and sequentially numbered.
In the packaging you will also find a quick installation guide, a user’s manual, an SLI bridge (are they serious?), two six pin to one eight pin PCI-e power adapter and an HDMI to DVI adapter. What I find most interesting is that they included an SLI bridge with this card. Does Asus really think that someone is going to buy two of these and run them in SLI? I would be very surprised to learn that there would actually be someone contemplating doing something like that taking into account that one of these alone costs 1400 dollars. Then again I guess anything’s possible.
