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Saphire Radeon 9800 Pro Atlantis... ????
OK, a while ago there was a big hoopla over Saphire releasing
castrated 128-bit version of Radeon 9800 called "Atlantis". I saw a "Saphire Radeon 9800 Pro Atlantis" in the store today. There were no stickers marking it as "128-bit". Would a box labeled clearly as "Saphire Radeon 9800 Pro Atlantis" be definitely 100% the 256-bit version? I read on google that Saphire went as far as labeling their 128-bit cards as "9800 pro" to fool its loyal customers. I would hate to go home with one of these "9800 Pro Atlantis" things, only to find out it's the castrated version. I would ask the salesman, but 9 times out of 10, they'll just give me a goofy look instead of a real answer. |
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I would hate to go home with one of these "9800 Pro Atlantis" things,
only to find out it's the castrated version. I would ask the salesman, but 9 times out of 10, they'll just give me a goofy look instead of a real answer. The 128bit versions do not have the word "Pro" on the box. Early production did, but these all had a 128bit sticker on the box also. A 256bit Atlantis 9800 Pro box looks like this.... http://www.sapphiretech.com/vga/9800proatl.asp A 128bit Atlantis 9800 looks like this... http://www.sapphiretech.com/vga/9800-256-128.asp |
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you can tell with benchmarks generally a 5500 is good anything if it only
gets 2200 3dmark 03 card is 128 bit version. Youll need one that gets 5500 3dmark03 to qualify as a 256bit version something even close can still be a 256bit this is a good estimate 5000 ok . "Augustus" wrote in message news:cqKUc.23508$S55.5844@clgrps12... I would hate to go home with one of these "9800 Pro Atlantis" things, only to find out it's the castrated version. I would ask the salesman, but 9 times out of 10, they'll just give me a goofy look instead of a real answer. The 128bit versions do not have the word "Pro" on the box. Early production did, but these all had a 128bit sticker on the box also. A 256bit Atlantis 9800 Pro box looks like this.... http://www.sapphiretech.com/vga/9800proatl.asp A 128bit Atlantis 9800 looks like this... http://www.sapphiretech.com/vga/9800-256-128.asp |
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