9800 PRO Cheaper then B4

[gokusimpson]

Here's everyone's favorite budget card, 9800 Pro 128.

http://www.a2zcomp.com/buy.asp?REF=1&SKU=XR98C3L

[Nova]

thats a good price, but its a gamble since they won't tell you any info about it, most likely a 128 bit core :(

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?DEPA=0&description=14-131-406&ATT=Video+Cards&CMP=OTC-B1zrat3

same card, same price, 128 bit core :( pay the extra 50$ and get twice the performance

[gokusimpson]

ya. it's probably the 128 core. I thought I was on to something. Oh well. Maybe later.

[PCgeek]

I thought it was only sapphire with a 128 bit core???

[gokusimpson]

Good deal Nova. I should have waited for my 9800. Paid 281 beans for mine

[PCgeek]

Me 2 m8, $265 for a non-pro :(

[Nova]

Good deal Nova. I should have waited for my 9800. Paid 281 beans for mine

deal? no the link i posted was of the same card, but unlike the primary link, this one had the cards specifications. as for you paying 285$ for a non pro, well i paied 140$ for a 9600 se in march... so i know how you feel

[GNXtreme]

thats a good price, but its a gamble since they won't tell you any info about it, most likely a 128 bit core :(

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?DEPA=0&description=14-131-406&ATT=Video+Cards&CMP=OTC-B1zrat3

same card, same price, 128 bit core :( pay the extra 50$ and get twice the performance

According to this link in the description it is the 256bit card...looks like a fairly good deal to me. But yeah...a few more $$ and you can get the pro...

[PCgeek]

$40 bucks is a good amount of cash... The latest review on newegg said it came with Samsung RAM rated for 350Mhz...

[Nova]

i'm not entirely sure, but from what i saw the memory was 256 bit, while the core 128 bit, read the 3d thing at the bottom

[PCgeek]

I dont see 128bit anywhere... You guys sure that the 128bit version is a 128bit core?? Maybe its 128bit mem...

[Nova]

Memory Configuration 128MB DDR(256 bit)

SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1 technology delivers the sharpest, clearest textures, removes jaggies and brings out fine texture details without sacrificing frame rates
///// 128-bit ///// full floating point precision enables billions of color variations to render the same lighting and effects as Hollywood studios

[PCgeek]

Features:
- Eight parallel rendering pipelines
- Four parallel geometry engines
- <b>256-bit DDR memory interface</b>
- AGP 8X support

SMARTSHADER™ 2.1
- Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
- 2.0 Vertex Shaders support vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
- 2.0 Pixel Shaders support up to 16 textures per rendering pass
- New F-buffer technology supports pixel shader programs with unlimited instructions
- <b>128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats</b>
- Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
- Shadow volume rendering acceleration
- Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® via extensions

This is right off the <a href="http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9800/radeon9800pro/specs.html">ATI Spec Sheet</a>

[Nova]

true but thats for ati cards no? what about saphire, there are 128 bit pro's out there, how can you be sure this one isn't one?

the way i searched for it is they give you the videocard number on the first site (the weabdeal one) and i did a search on newegg with that number

[PCgeek]

Im just telling you floating point is supposed to be 128bit, and those are the specs for the 9800 CORE, not the card

[Nova]

ah ok gotcha

[zer0_o]

I payed $313 Canadian for my ATI (not saphire) 128Mb Radeon 9800 Pro (256 Bit) which is $239 according to xe.com's currency converter *suckers*
Me 2 m8, $265 for a non-pro :(