Wednesday, May 16th 2007
XFX Ordered to Stop Selling 8600GT Retail Package
The Munich's district court has ordered graphics cards retailer XFX to stop selling retail packages of its 8600GT product, which tricky illustrates the logo of XFX's German competitor eVGA. XFX, a division of Pine, has included on the retail box of their GeForce 8600 GT graphics card a drooling dog. Although XFX fans being familiar with this XFX illustration would not find anything strange on it, a closer look at the dog's teeth unveils that the dog is actually drooling over eVGA, as you can see at the picture below. The specific retail packages were available in German shops and eVGA's reaction came today. XFX received a preliminary injunction from the Munich district court, ordering XFX to stop selling the specific 8600GT retail box with the eVGA logo on it. eVGA applied for a compensation of €250,000 from XFX.
Sources:
CdrInfo, Legit Reviews
34 Comments on XFX Ordered to Stop Selling 8600GT Retail Package
But I think eVGA asking for compensation is a bit stupid, XFX would lose enough money from the product being pulled...
and yes, this is freaking hilarious. whats next, ATI dogs urinating Nvidia logos?
:p
:nutkick:
edit: and i just realised he's talking out his nose. oh well.
Edward Vegas Gandalf Assface???
lol
But aside from that, what's so unusual about 4 initials? What about Tolkien? J.R.R.T.
I honestly doubt that eVGA will lose any sales over this.
but yeah this is just weird. cant wait to hear why this was even done in teh first place.
LOL