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9700 for 200$ from reliable retailer
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A lot of people are skeptical about Sapphires, which are made in the same plant as PowerColors (or so I've heard). Its a cheap brand that, IMO, isn't worth getting.
You can buy an ATi made 9700 for 2 dollars more.. don't get the big deal about how pricewatch and froogle 'can't beat this price' when its 2 dollars more for a reliable product (ATi built).
You can buy an ATi made 9700 for 2 dollars more.. don't get the big deal about how pricewatch and froogle 'can't beat this price' when its 2 dollars more for a reliable product (ATi built).
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What are you talking about!? Sapphire makes great ATi cards! I remember hearing that they make the Built By ATi version of cards.
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That is a sweet price... I'm almost tempted to buy one to mod myself... .... ahhhhhhhhhhh Raadeeeon..
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i too heard that sapphire was the greater comapny and that powercolor was the lesser. i made a post asking exactly which of the 2 were better. can anyone give a length of time which this offer is valid? i plan on doing this in about 3 weeks pending my paycheck.
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Hmm, hardware prices are hard to determine how long they stay at a certain price. I could go down farther, but it could go back up.
You can't really perdict a price at a certain time.
You can't really perdict a price at a certain time.
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Ffats said:
Pay no attention to that post!
SAPHIRE MAKES NEARLY ALL OF ATI'S "BUILT BY ATI CARDS"
Always wanted to make a post all in Cap's
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Anyone know what kind of ram these cards have, if there was some more info on em I would be buying one right now.
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Sapphire cards are prefered, NOT avoided
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Any more info on these cards yet? Ive been looking around didnt find anything.
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Krowa 02 said:
I just ordered one last night. It's being shipped 3 day air so it should be here Friday. I'll let you know the results. The website says it's an ATI card, but if it's a Saphire then no problem there, as long as it's not a Powercolor I'll take my chances with it.
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TheGame240
have you recieved the card ?? and how is it if u did?
please inform me cause i might get one..
have you recieved the card ?? and how is it if u did?
please inform me cause i might get one..
I would have jumped on that card in a flash
When I needed one fast and bucks were low, I grabbed a Radeon Ati 9500pro on sale. BUT, to make me feel better, my pard RadMan put in the 3.4 cats (3.5 is out now? or so Rad tells me). He also voltmodded the core and mem with a fixed resistor setup (one with grabbers) and soldered the other. We then placed heatsinks on the ram, put a waterblock on the gpu and placed a small fan on the side to give those ram heat sinks a good blowjob. Core at 355/650 Mem...
Score? 15,551! (3dmark01) We still have room and I will give him my right (but bad) eye (lmao) if we can get over 16000. So, I guess I don't feel so bad now. My next one will be the 9800pro (256ram) and I will play till dawn with my latest max payne.
I guess I don't feel as bad now!
Happy trails
Tweaker
When I needed one fast and bucks were low, I grabbed a Radeon Ati 9500pro on sale. BUT, to make me feel better, my pard RadMan put in the 3.4 cats (3.5 is out now? or so Rad tells me). He also voltmodded the core and mem with a fixed resistor setup (one with grabbers) and soldered the other. We then placed heatsinks on the ram, put a waterblock on the gpu and placed a small fan on the side to give those ram heat sinks a good blowjob. Core at 355/650 Mem...
Score? 15,551! (3dmark01) We still have room and I will give him my right (but bad) eye (lmao) if we can get over 16000. So, I guess I don't feel so bad now. My next one will be the 9800pro (256ram) and I will play till dawn with my latest max payne.
I guess I don't feel as bad now!
Happy trails
Tweaker
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Card finally came in. After some initial setbacks, it's up and running. First I forgot to flash bios before installing my Barton processor. So after swapping out processors and flashing and then reswapping processors I started with finding the max stable processor speed.
Well at 133 or 166FSB the card was fine, but at 200FSB I didn't get any video during post. After reading several forums and articles I decided it was either 8X AGP, voltage needed increasing, Fast Writes, or just a bad card since I already had the latest bios for the MB. Turned out it was just 8X AGP needed to be disabled so anyone who's considering any R300 based cards should probably turn off 8X since there's nothing to gain by it and a lot of trouble getting it off once it's on. I had to reinstall by GF4 to get into the bios to try turning it off.
Anyway it comes with 3.3ns Infineon ram, not the best, but for 2 bills I'm not going to complain. Someone said it's a Saphire card, but there are no markings on it saying one way or the other and since ATI and Saphire cards look alike I couldn't tell you which one it is. I went ahead and flashed it with the pro bios made for Infineon ram. That's as far as I've pushed it, but I can safely say mine runs at Pro speeds with just a bios flash and I have no visual errors. Looped 3dmark03 for 4 hours with no tearing or lockups, so I'd say those speeds at least are stable. I have no desire to push it any further at the moment. Maybe when D3 or games based on the D3 engine emerge I'll have a reason to need more, but for now Pro speeds are enough.
Well at 133 or 166FSB the card was fine, but at 200FSB I didn't get any video during post. After reading several forums and articles I decided it was either 8X AGP, voltage needed increasing, Fast Writes, or just a bad card since I already had the latest bios for the MB. Turned out it was just 8X AGP needed to be disabled so anyone who's considering any R300 based cards should probably turn off 8X since there's nothing to gain by it and a lot of trouble getting it off once it's on. I had to reinstall by GF4 to get into the bios to try turning it off.
Anyway it comes with 3.3ns Infineon ram, not the best, but for 2 bills I'm not going to complain. Someone said it's a Saphire card, but there are no markings on it saying one way or the other and since ATI and Saphire cards look alike I couldn't tell you which one it is. I went ahead and flashed it with the pro bios made for Infineon ram. That's as far as I've pushed it, but I can safely say mine runs at Pro speeds with just a bios flash and I have no visual errors. Looped 3dmark03 for 4 hours with no tearing or lockups, so I'd say those speeds at least are stable. I have no desire to push it any further at the moment. Maybe when D3 or games based on the D3 engine emerge I'll have a reason to need more, but for now Pro speeds are enough.
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sounds like a pretty good card
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sounds like a pretty good card
somone in another thread got his pretty high. But you said you havn't tried anything higher than pro speeds.......
somone in another thread got his pretty high. But you said you havn't tried anything higher than pro speeds.......
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Meh, ill wait it out until the 2.8ns ones come down in price, probably around doom3 time, then ill upgrade.
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tweaker said:
My girlfriend is good at that too
Hehe.....could'nt resist
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