Somebody with access to a Radeon R9 Fury X review sample (looking at the box), has been plastering tech-forums the web over, with clear pictures of it. We picked up a few from our forums. The pictures reveal a card with solid build quality and industrial design. It is arguably the best looking reference-design AMD Radeon product. The card itself is extremely compact, and uses length savings for fittings and tubings of its closed-loop AIO liquid-cooling to pop out. The cooler has a chunkier 120 mm x 120 mm radiator, than the one the R9 295X2 comes with, but features a slimmer 15 mm-thick included fan, which looks a lot like a Scythe Gentle Typhoon.

When installed, the card looks extremely premium in your case. The vent-free cooler design, coupled with the solid back-plate, give it a "wholesome" look, despite its split liquid cooling solution. The card draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors. A dozen red and green SMT LEDs line the area, and give you a real-time readout of GPU load. Display outputs include three DisplayPort 1.2a, and one HDMI 1.4a. The lack of HDMI 2.0 may prove to be a bummer for people planning to plug this to a 4K TV, however, every 4K monitor ever sold, features a DP 1.2 input. We'll leave you to the pics.A few more pics follow.

So, is this card ITX case worthy? Looking at these pics, we're not so sure. While the card itself is quite compact, the coolant tubing sticks out from its rear. These fiber-sleeved rubber tubes, even when bent to the max, add about 2 inches to the card's length. So the card is effectively as long as a reference GeForce GTX 680, if not less.

Reviews of the Radeon R9 Fury X go live this Wednesday-Thursday, and retail availability should follow in the next 3 weeks.