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Box

This video card comes in an averaged-sized black box. 

The box prominently displays that the card has 512MB of GDDR4, HD Video and HDMI 5.1 audio capabilities. You can also see the CrossFireX logo written over a backdrop of Tabula Rasa characters.

The side of the box includes a handy slot-identification chart, which may be useful to more casual gamers who are not certain whether they have a PCIe or AGP slot in their rig.

The text on the back of the box is written in English only; straightforwardly outlining of the features of the HD 3870. There are four screenshots on the back of the box: two of Tabula Rasa, and two from Call of Juarez.

Bundle

The VisionTek HD 3870 comes with a nice written manual (which is uncommon for video cards), a driver CD, a DVI to HDMI adapter, a DVI to VGA adapter, and HDTV component out adapter, and a CrossFire interconnect bridge.

Anything else, you might be wondering? Unfortunately, no -- while this bundle is fairly standard and covers the essentials, there is no Tabula Rasa game with this card. Seeing that iconic sexy red-head from Tabula Rasa on the box (and the screenshots on the back) led me to presume that the game was included, but this was not the case. Including a 30-day free trial of this interesting sci-fi MMORPG seems like it would've been a great cross-promotional addition to this video card package, so it is somewhat puzzling to see its absence, after it was featured on the box-art.