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Old Feb 10, 2012, 11:00 AM   #1
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AMD Pulls Hysterical Cape Verde Marketing Stunt

Reviewers who have probably received their AMD Radeon HD 7700 series samples by now, were taken aback when they found a prescription medication bottle in their packages. No NVIDIA-styled Press Deck booklet, or even former-ATI styled Ruby doll, but a medicine bottle, which reads "Verdetrol". The label directed them to insert the blue capsules inside it to the heat vents of the graphics card, when benchmarking, so it "acts as a performance enhancement".

The point in all this? Apparently AMD's Radeon HD 7770 features 1 GHz core clock speed out of the box, making it the first GPU ever to do so, and AMD wants to make a song and dance about it. What's more, AMD will use a special branding called "GHz Edition" to mark all its future SKUs that come with 1 GHz (or more) GPU core clock speed, indicating that AMD has more SKUs in the pipeline with ≥1 GHz core clock speed. It doesn't stop with this hysterical medicine bottle thingie, no sir, AMD even set up a teaser site dedicated to "Verdetrol".



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Verde is spanish for "green".
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Troll the Green company? lol what?
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Troll the Green company? lol what?
Exactly!
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I love the Canada shoutout on the bottle, Markham Ont FTW !!
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What is this exactly?
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Someday, on antiques roadshow...

Green stuff will prolly turn to green pus by then...darn!
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How about releasing some new drivers to fix the bugs before making lame crap.
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Hey wait...those are jellybeans!!

Ooooo I want one now!! I want to see what AMD tastes like!!
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Verde is spanish for "green".
And what does Cape mean? O.o

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And what does Cape mean? O.o
vampire clothing.


green vampire jellybeans.
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In the last few monts AMD/ATI (i still call them that) definitely wins in the PR battle.
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AMD need to inject some of that medicine in there CPU line.
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Verde is spanish for "green".
It also means green in italian
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not to be confused with the french word 'merde' which i believe is how they say 'fosters beer'
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not to be confused with the french word 'merde' which i believe is how they say 'fosters beer'
You're thinking of "pisse de l'eau"
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And what does Cape mean? O.o
And you also have the country, called Cape Verde...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde

What a coincidence...
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this is what we need......

THAT is creative marketing at its best.....

not just some BS numbers!!!!

thank you amd!!!
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vampire clothing.


green vampire jellybeans.
Sucking the life out of Nvidia?

Now if only they could manufacture blue jellybeans and recoup some of these snowballs they started
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And what does Cape mean? O.o
I was talking about their website "Verdetroll" = "Greentroll". Also (E)nvidia is spanish for "envy". They're just playing mind games.
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