MSI N280GTX SUPER OC review

Page 2 - Packaging and Contents

The boxes of such expensive cards have few quite logical characteristics - they are big, variegated and shiny.

Recently it's became popular for the box to be able to be opened easily from the top, right in the store even. Now below this new "hood" you'll find a quite a lot of the cards characteristics on display, as well as list of the extra stuff the manufacturer put in. And that is inevitably destined to cause you to just throw your pile of money on the counter (and make no mistake, we are talking of hundreds of dollars here), in order to be able to hug the cardboard-wrapped happiness and all teary with joy (avoiding the "It costs how much?!?" thought) run back to your lair where uninterrupted gaming will ensue for as long as it takes for you to get zombified. Well... then again, maybe not all that vivid, after all once you have obtained the card, the manufacturer is relatively indifferent to your emotional and financial state.

Still for that much money everything must be perfect. As it is indeed here - with MSI N280GTX SUPER OC you get an excellent hit game released at the same time as the card, namely - Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2. You get all the necessary cables, DVI to HDMI adapter, manuals, Driver CD and lots of software. And here is the card itself:

First thing to notice is that this is totally PCB and cooler referent model (yes, the PCB cannot be seen, but MSI assures us of that), meaning it's manufactured to the exact NVIDIA design specifications and that the only difference it bears with an NVIDIA made one is in the sticker on top of the cooler. The blue plugs protect the DVI connectors and the SLI bridge connector is hidden and protected by elegant plug that interferes not with the aggressive design of the cooler.

And finally - an N260GTX и N280GTX physical differences comparison. In this case size doesn't matter.