What happened to Graphics Card box art babes?

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Back in the 90's to early 2010's, the box art for gaming graphics cards were usually adorned with GCI renders of beautiful fantasy or sci-fi babes. If you were exceptionally lucky you'd get a poster of her too for the bedroom.
Why have Nvidia and AMD all but stopped this practice? Why have they cancelled my poor gaming babes and instead changed to super boring box art? There was a time that I'd always keep my graphics card boxes for home decor but I don't even bother to now these days, I don't even see a point anymore. Hopefully Intel will step it up and bring back these beauties soon.
 
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For a lot of cards the design became way more professional looking (and easier on the mind to get tax reimbursed) by more professional companies, at those price points you if the packaging and card to look more fancy and can afford to, cards became piece of art that do not need a jpeg on them

Also the average age of the buyers probably moved a lot, new GPU buyers shifted from teenagers in the 90s earlys 00s to people that were teens in the 90s early 00s
 
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LukeTbk said:
For a lot of cards the design became way more professional looking (and easier on the mind to get tax reimbursed) by more professional companies, at those price points you if the packaging and card to look more fancy and can afford to, cards became piece of art that do not need a jpeg on them

Also the average age of the buyers probably moved a lot, new GPU buyers shifted from teenagers in the 90s earlys 00s to people that were teens in the 90s early 00s
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So just imagine when some 40-ish guy gets his new GPU card which also has a poster, and he puts that poster on the wall in his bedroom. What's his wife going to say?? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
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Companies finally clued in they weren't trying to appeal to horny 13 year old.
 
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I wish more GPUs came in plain unprinted cardboard boxes, with cardboard padding instead of foam. I know it's only a tiny part of the massive amount of resources used to make the card itself, but at least the packaging would then be fully recyclable.
 
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If they had a Black and a white PS5 people would buy the Black PS5 first. Now if you had a gamer girl on the PS5 that would sell before the Black one. But people would have to identify with the image this is something people may or may not want. Plus cooling fans take up image space today unless it's a Yetson card.

You know what would sell custom Hogwarts Legacy cards.
 
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What is really missing from the conversation is the great ugly art, but I guess ya can't wincel-them-all.


https://www.thegamer.com/cursed-graphics-card-box-art/
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The whole marketing with this new card you can real time render this which was not possible 3 years ago shown by an image era is completely over and now that near 100% photorealistic affair are possible, picture, long render or realtime-render would not be obvious. That aspect of it naturally went away.
 
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I think it’s mostly due to prices increasing and the target market being older. Also the fact that “mainstream” GPUs are much more general purpose now. Companies that had workstations with quadro or FirePros are now just as likely to have a reference model instead.

Needless to say, the purchasing and accounting folks don’t have a sense of humor in my experience. I personally love the old box art, BUT I also don’t want to be the one explaining why IT just bought a big stack of very expensive boxes covered in CG sexy swimsuit chicks with fantasy weapons and fireballs.
 
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My first real gaming card, or specifically, the first card I bought primary for gaming in 2004. I had ATI All in Wonder cards in the past which were decent and I liked the video capture portion of them.

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I also have this card from 2008 I believe.
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Zepher said:
My first real gaming card, or specifically, the first card I bought primary for gaming in 2004. I had ATI All in Wonder cards in the past which were decent and I liked the video capture portion of them.

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I also have this card from 2008 I believe.
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we had that card/box in our display at the shop i worked at back then and its what the boss ran.
ruby!! (or a knock off...)
that chick's shirt is great
 
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Zepher said:
My first real gaming card, or specifically, the first card I bought primary for gaming in 2004. I had ATI All in Wonder cards in the past which were decent and I liked the video capture portion of them.

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I'm pretty sure that was my first card too. I recognize it. I was playing Half Life straight off the MoBo- I forget the term for it. I was fine with it. Buddy suggested a GPU, something I had never heard of, and away I went. Something like 20fps to 40fps. I was stunned. haha
 
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Westwood said:
I'm pretty sure that was my first card too. I recognize it. I was playing Half Life straight off the MoBo- I forget the term for it. I was fine with it. Buddy suggested a GPU, something I had never heard of, and away I went. Something like 20fps to 40fps. I was stunned. haha
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I guess it would just be called integrated graphics, just like what they have in the CPU's now, but it was built onto the motherboard back then..
 
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I guess it would just be called integrated graphics, just like what they have in the CPU's now, but it was built onto the motherboard back then..
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yea, it was LUA, LGA, IGA? something like that. PC tower that came from a store.
 
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My first real gaming card was the GeForce 4200Ti 64Mb, I lived this era and do miss it!

I been offered my Abit 939 KN8-SLi nForce 4 / AMD 3800X2/ Nvidia GS 7600 back for free, he also has my Nvidia GeForce 5 FX 5900 XL video card.

I didn't try AMD until the 9700 pro
 
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