Unlike Gigabyte's ridiculously elaborate package, ASUS has gone for leaner offerings.
The sample ships with drivers, but it is recommended you use the same press drivers that we did for testing. They should be available from the NVIDIA website as Beta drivers.
Under the foam lies the card itself, molex to PCI-E power cable, DVI-VGA and HDMI-DVI adaptors.
The card itself.
These early products use NVIDIA's new reference design for the card. This involves the central fan pushing air over vapour chambers to each side, much the same as the RADEON HD 6990.
Only one mini-Displayport connector is to be found, the other three are all DVI. It is important to note that this is the first NVIDIA card to support triple monitors natively.
This outtake at the rear seems to be where most of the heat comes from.
Rather than completely covering the rear of the card, like AMD did with the 6990, NVIDIA has opted to only use backplates underneath the GPUs and RAM.
One of the nicer touches is this LED-lit GeForce Logo, which is actually oriented correctly, making the text readable when mounted in a case.
The card requires two 8-pin PCI-Express connectors to feed the GPUs.
The card up and running in a P67 based testbench. While not RADEON 6990 large, it still overhangs this E-ATX motherboard by a small amount.
Unlike Gigabyte's ridiculously elaborate package, ASUS has gone for leaner offerings.