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[KevinAr18]

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[gothitbycar]

They'll pretty much all perform the same but I'd get the ATI version. A little while ago Sapphire was caught misleading customers by selling a 9800 pro with a 128-bit memory bus (it's supposed to be 256-bit.) Even if it is past history it is still a blemish on their company.

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[HardWareBoss]

Of the two buy ATI. New Egg has HIS 9800ProICEQ for $240 or $260. Have not checked price in awhile.

 

[etp777]

I'd get the Sapphire.

The card was labeled 128bit, if people were too stupid to read/research what they were buying, that's their fault. Caveat Emptor.

The Sapphires work great, and save you a few bucks.

 

[Coyote]

Check the length of the warranty, if that matters to you. My ati came with a three year warranty. Seemed everything else I looked at came with a one-year.

Mobile XP 2600+ (11X200)
Abit NF7-S v 2.0
Maxtor 60GB ATA 133 7200RPM
512MB Corsair Twinx 3200LL
BBA 9800 Pro
Enermax Noisetaker 420 watts
Win98SE

 

[TheRod]

Check the length of the warranty, if that matters to you. My ati came with a three year warranty. Seemed everything else I looked at came with a one-year.

I don't think it's worth the money. Most electronic components like GPU/CPU will not die for no reason. So, if after 1 year of work a CPU/GPU is still alive, it will never die.

The only piece of hardware in a PC that benefits from a long warranty are HDD in my opinion. This is the only pice of hardware that died since I buy PC components. I actually "killed" 3 of my HDD in the past.

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[DonnieDarko]

The card was labeled 128bit, if people were too stupid to read/research what they were buying, that's their fault. Caveat Emptor.

AMEN


AMD64 2800+
MSI Neo-Fis2r
512mb Kingmax ddr400
Sapphire 9800pro 128mb
10K WD Raptor

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

The thing is Sapphires are also notorious for cheaping different quality memory modules on their parts, all will work within spec, but if you're in to overclocking sometimes you can get burned by cheap entrontech/hynix/infineon or even slower samsung memory.

That's the one thing that far to often you can't check until you have the card in your hands, and now even then you'd often have to remove the HSF assembly if you wanted to look at which memory modules are on your card.


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