AMD Pulls Hysterical Cape Verde Marketing Stunt

[SaiZo]

Wonder what they had in their drinks when coming up with this idéa.

 

[unsmart]

I'm going to buy a 7770 and stick 4 green jellybeans in the fan every day just to see if I cam RMA it

 

[Recus]

So, they are adding blue candies/Tic Tac and call them green? Interesting.

http://dribbble.com/colors/42B2BE
http://www.color-hex.com/color/42b2be

 

[Completely Bonkers]

Lame! And irresponsible. It's like condoning if not even encouraging the use of drugs - and the AMD corporation is sponsoring this! They deserve a bit of flak for this :shadedshu

 

[Thefumigator]

c'mon guys, Cape Verde is the codename of the next radeon 7770
so its a place somewhere in this world.

 

[robal]

While it has little technical merit...

I think this PR stunt is excellent !

 

[Suhidu]

They'll hook you at 1GHz, but "Verdetrol" is no miracle pill. For the little it's going to do with your 7770, just remember that someday, no "Natural Enhancement" is going to help your pangs for more performance (...not with a 7770 anyway; not once you've seen how "far" enhancement can really take it). I'll probably watch some of you move up from putting "Verdetrol" in your 7770s, to buying two 7990s before this generation is through! Where to then?

And I'd imagine that use of these can lead to "Heat Exhaustion". How irresponsible of Legit Reviews to not disclose the full information(incl. side-effects) provided by "Radeon Pharmacy". (these even look like they may dangerously shoot back out at you, but that's another issue entirely)

Lame! And irresponsible. It's like condoning if not even encouraging the use of drugs - and the AMD corporation is sponsoring this! They deserve a bit of flak for this :shadedshu

It's completely bonkers, I agree.

 

[fullinfusion]

AMD need to inject some of that medicine in there CPU line.

True that
Id love to see these gpu's get caught up in customs hahahahah
Cant believe I wasted my time reading this thread but thanks for the read OP

 

[RejZoR]

It would be fun if they'd be sending bricks with it with an etiquette that says: "When you bench it, you'll shit brix."

 

[3volvedcombat]

Lame! And irresponsible. It's like condoning if not even encouraging the use of drugs - and the AMD corporation is sponsoring this! They deserve a bit of flak for this :shadedshu

I'm sure their are many young/inexperienced minds looking to pay well over 100$+ for 77xx series video cards that are going to be condoned into taking random pills and drugs

If some people think society is that really that weak, if it is or not, then the world is truly coming to an end.

IMO though, the audience should not be so prone to "drug use" from looking at high end video cards that are not even on the market with a pill bottle PR stunt.

Just saying though :shadedshu
It seems fine to me, to each-others own

 

[redeye]

this is off-the-charts-amazing!... "the onion" amazing!...satire at it's finest, there are at least 4 different sub-texts to this stunt that make it classic... lets see... jelly beans ( sugar ) instant boost, "viagra" is a performance boost but its what you do with it. the whole green color/language thing against nvidia... the rx number 1337-2012 l!!! leet 2012 OMG... IMO this is stunt that is an instant classic and a collectors' item. not to mention that if you have received this item, you have made it as a reviewer... you are on the list!!!!

 

[Casecutter]

While I was reading... "label directed them to insert the blue capsules inside it to the heat vents of the graphics card, when benchmarking".

My first thought was a "heat-melt capsules" (wax) that reviewer could use for both the AMD card, and any 1Ghz card Nvidia might come out with. Then run a game that is really stressing both (not like a Furmark) and see when/which melted it first along with which had better FPS.

That would've been a real engineering / marketing coup, and really made a statement to AMD’s prowess. Although as AMD and we have yet to really be sure what Kepler will be in terms of clock/power/performance it's too early to gamble that fiercely, as we're probably 3 months away from seeing GK106 offerings, a stunt like that would have been way to ball’sy.

instant classic and a collectors' item.

My thinking exactly!

 

[Prima.Vera]

Verde is spanish for "green".

Actually is original from LATIN (also in Romanian)

 

[_JP_]

And what does Cape mean?

It's portuguese. Cape Verde is an old colony. Cape verde = Cabo verde.
Verde = Green.
Cabo = cape/headland.
Verdetrol = Green Troll.












Cabo can also mean "cable", but I don't think that's what they meant.

 

[catnipkiller]

Now fix your drivers?

 

[amd/atifiend]

I have to admit it is pretty clever......clever marketing from AMD!? hell hath truly frozen over!!!!

 

[_JP_]

Now fix your drivers?

AMD: "Can't, too busy messing with nVidia and raising the price of graphics cards on release."

 

[cadaveca]

Cabo can also mean "cable", but I don't think that's what they meant.

A Cable is a message.



AS in "Hey Nvidia! TROLLED!"



lulz.

The pills symbolize a day nVidia cards are not sold. Every day it's(AMD) going to eat at away @ nV sales, one day at a time.

I think AMD finally understands how much impact selling the first 1 GHz GPU is going to have on consumer mind share. 7770 is going to be the level of card that is stuffed into Dell/HP boxes more often than not, and nVidia doesn't have a card that competes....at least...not yet.

 

[NdMk2o1o]

Lame! And irresponsible. It's like condoning if not even encouraging the use of drugs - and the AMD corporation is sponsoring this! They deserve a bit of flak for this :shadedshu

wtf are you talking about, think you need a dose of reality... pun intended

 

[xenocide]

I find it hysterical how bad AMD's marketing team is year after year...

 

[TRWOV]

Troll the Green company? lol what?

-trol (not troll) is a common suffix for medicine brands. I'd say it has more to do with Cape Verde than with nVidia.

 

[cadaveca]

Also, everything depicted herein is completely fake.

http://verdetrol.com/

Including the clockspeeds?

 

[xxdozer32]

It also means green in italian

and in chinese and french

 

[cadaveca]

French is "vert". Just FYI.

 

[ensabrenoir]

Silly and funny.......2 points amd ati. You guys. Can't fail....