Presentation and Bundle
You bet. Both boards get the same presentation treatment with MSI differentiating between the two using subtle changes on the outside of the box. Inside, with the bundle, things are ever so slightly different too, due to the different power connectors. The large majority of the presentation and bundle is therefore completely identical.Here's the box for each.
AGP Platinum Edition Box - Click for a bigger version
X800 XT PCI Express Box - Click for a bigger version
The Platinum Edition and PCI Express box details make themselves known a bit more clearly on the enlarged versions. Apart from a specification table on the rear of the box, the front detailing is really the only way to tell each apart at a glance. The front box face flips up to give you a voyeuristic view of the card, visible through a cutout in the box that lets you see the hardware inside its plastic clamshell. That inner section of the box also gives you details on the game bundle, more on that shortly.
Inside the, quite massive, box you'll find the card, connecting cables, power connector, CD pile (and it really is a pile) and manuals, all laid out in their individual compartments. I'll only show the PCI Express XT version for brevity.
RX800 XT Box - Click for a bigger version
Both versions come with the power adaptor cables needed to power them. You also get a four-headed cable that provides S-Video and composite video input and output connections to feed the Rage Theater ASIC. There's also an RGB component output cable, for connecting up a compatible display.
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A pile of 14 CDs provides the software. The game demos aren't anything you can't download from the web, so I'll skip over those. The full game titles are copies of XIII (Thirteen), Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Uru: Ages Beyond Myst. The gamers among you might spot all those as Ubisoft titles, MSI working with the publisher to give you a set of really great games. POP:SOT is decent and SC:PT is quite excellent. XIII is a good console port although I'm no fan of the game and Uru isn't my thing at all. However, it's four full, recent games titles for you to get your teeth into.
MSI also supply software to let you capture video from the Theater ASIC, you get DVD player software and a driver CD to get the cards up and running.
It's an excellent set of good games and bundled software and a definite highpoint of the whole package.
