The card comes shipped in an enclosure sporting a familiar color scheme; on the frontal side Gigabyte is advertising the custom 100mm large fan they have used with the cooling system but we are also reminded that we are dealing with a factory overclocked card. The variant we are reviewing is equipped with 1GB of GDDR5 RAM, but on the market there is also a 2GB version available, which can be differentiated by a slightly different box-art and a cooler with a different shaped plastic shroud:

On the back side of the box we will be able to see a description in more detail of the board main characteristics:

By lifting the top cover, we will spot the documentation along with the card itself, but also a separate compartment with the rest of the bundle:

The Quick Installation Guide is also shipped along with an installation disk and the manufacturer has also included a PCI-E 6-pin to Molex power adapter:

The card cooling system is comprised of a large circular heatsink which is cooled with a proprietary 9-blade 100mm fan, surrounded with a black plastic shroud:

Here are some additional views on the laterals, which allow us to spot some of the heatsink components. As we can clearly see, the circular heatsink exceeds with just a bit the size of the blue PCB:

Extra power is supplied to the board via the included 6-pin PCI-Express connector:

As the Crossfire finger or the PCI-Express connector, Gigabyte saw fit to protect all ports during transit; these plastic covers also keep the ports dust free so we may want to leave them on if we do not use the respective ports:

Here is also a closer look at the back side of the PCB: