most retarded design ever.

I think WTF pretty much sums it up.

EDIT:
UMMMM Dust proof? How much what they are smoking for a 1/4.
Really it must be awsome.

OK, this is a different take, And I would say: yes it will more than likly expand on air flow and lower temps, which means higher clock rates.

But and there alway is a butt. At What cost? I generaly get a new video card every 18 months and some do every few months. No way are people going to drop over 500 dollars on video cards. The nature of gaming and computer in general is that it changes to often.
Here is a case where Moores law says it not worth the R&D

Sweet, now my graphics card will fly bett- oh wait wtf?

So aside from looking odd, there the problem that the areodynamics is useless on most cases as the airflow is going against the width of the card, not straight down it.

Best thing is that on most computer cases, this new revolutionary design will be hidden on the bottom side, sanwitched with another PCI card.... Who will notice?

But there are cases where the heatsink goes above. Dell made some I believe? But still, those weren't transparent cases.

What a lost of research time. The dev team must have been really bored.

It looks like they slapped a mini F1 race car shell on it... Seriously, this thing performs better?

I smell a group pricing package with Need For Speed!

Why... No will see the design of the heat sink once it's installed. Only thing will be the top of the card shown.

whatever advantage this has would surely be cancelled out by the rest of the case's bad aerodynamics

I see Asus's BSmeter going off the chart!!

I like the color though.

Ok, I'm a F1 fan, but.. WT heck?
I really don't think that the F1/Kart design of the cover does the job. I think it's related to the material used.

MMMMMHMMMMMM yeah.... ok Asus...whatever you say... XD
They just want to sell to stupid/people looking for looks who don't know specs....Besides they probably upped the fan by 10% and ended up with 7% better airflow....not from the casing.

I'm not at all interested in this.

I like Sapphire's VAPOR-X 2GB 4870. 2GB on a single card is more along the lines I prefer. Granted it costs around a 4890... (2x memory compared to better clocks.)

I like Asus, but this far from impresses me.

It can now reach clock speeds of 160 mph

Someone bench these cards with and without the shell and similar mockup shells to verify, please!

I guess when i get sick of it i can throw it out my window and see how far it goes.

Anyone noticed the dual fan?

Lol. I like this

I wonder how they make their fan "dust proof"

i hope they've considered a good design for their rear diffuser package lol

Erm... ok, but will they stick to the ceiling of a tunnel at 100 Km/h???

I do commend this design:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/a [...] ,7971.html

however this is total BS.

If you look at the shells, you can see that it's a bit lifted from the heatsink fins, but angled so that the air will flow towards them. Don't look at the exterior design, that's just for looks. Look at the air flow produced by the fan then directed towards the fins at angle. This is probably where the better cooling comes from.

The looks is just for show. If you like cars, this might be for you. It's pretty cool.

Ok. I just want some numbers that prove this design really does what it is supposed to do. If it works I could care less what it looks like. Not like the computer fashion police going to so up and give my a ticket for not having the coolest looking card.

When I was little (10, maybe 12) I used to be so disappointed that all the coolest product boxes at the computer show with jets and race cars and crap printed on them were not actually games or toys, but were in fact video cards (probably with 2mb cache or so on board, at the time). I used to wish the video card would at least look like what was on the box.

...I take it back. I don't like these at all...