Originally posted by: Naustica
Originally posted by: iCe4LiFE
Just got back home and both Ultras were waiting for me. For the guys that got theirs, did the anti-static bag appear to be opened before? For both of my cards, there was a yellow caution sticker that was stuck over another yellow sticker which was already ripped open.
Also wondering what version BIOS shipped with your cards. On the back of my cards, both had stickers saying 5.40.02.15.11.
I haven't opened mine yet. No urge yet.
As for the anti-static bag appearing to be open, don't worry. That was done at BFG. Workers at BFG in IL opens all Ultras that come in and take the heatsink off and replace the stock thermal paste with Arctic Silver. That's why it appears open. They don't do this with any other cards. Just the Ultras.
The reason they use white retail cardboard plain boxes is that when the Ultras were first released, they didn't have official boxes for it. But they wanted to get the card to the people who preordered so they shipped it in these plain white boxes. Well BFG got positive response from people about the boxes as people didn't care about the box design, just the card. So that white box stuck.