The Package

Like most high-end cards from ASUS, we have ourselves quite a large box that we can imagine would be a bit of a pain to ship. The box is actually quite plain with the majority of the box just showing a single colour across most of it. The right does have a picture of the girl we’ve seen on a number of other ASUS boxes in the past.



The top of the card mentions the brand while the bottom of the card gives us the model, and above that we have some of the specs on the card like the fact that 512MB of GDDR3 memory is used, PCI Express 2.0 support along with mention of some of the extra programs that ASUS include.



Turning the box over we get some more details on the 9800 GTX core along with some explanations on the software that ASUS includes in the package; this includes GamerOSD, Smart Doctor and more.



With the outside of the box done, it’s time to dive inside and see what exactly we have with us. The paperwork department is pretty standard as usual with the speed setup guide, we also have the standard driver disc which includes some of the specific ASUS applications. Alongside that, we have the multi language manual CD if you’re interested in a bit of light reading.



The cable department also gives us a pretty standard setup with a DVI to VGA connector, Molex to PCI Express power connector and a component out cable.



Alongside all the normal stuff we also have the CD Wallet that we see on the higher end cards from ASUS. What they’ve done though is move away from the black one, they’re now using this brown one which not only looks like better quality, but feels it as well.

It’s disappointing to see that ASUS has opted not to include any games with the card, considering it’s the second highest model from NVIDIA at the moment. Hopefully ASUS re-evaluate this when they release the TOP model, which we’re sure isn’t that far away.