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BFG GTX280 OC $249.99 AR @ Frys

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Here's one for all your whiners that don't have a Frys anywhere near you - this deal is available online too!

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$269.99 - $20 MIR = $249.99 (plus Sales Tax and/or Shipping)

Shipping for me shows about $7.50 give or take.
 
Originally posted by: allies
Great deal! I'm wondering if this is getting blown out to make room for the GTX275...?
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Doubt it - the GTX275 (if true) is an overclocked GTX260. The GTX285 replaced the GTX280.
 
I'd love to pair this with my existing GTX280, but then I'd need to upgrade the PSU, so here's to buying more PSU than you need to eliminate future hardware regrets.
 
Originally posted by: Bad Dude
How much faster is this card compares to the Radeon 4870 1GB?
Thanks.
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I have come so close to pulling the trigger multiple times these past few weeks but just can't decide. This looks like a great deal but assuming you could push the $168 shipped GTX 260 to 675mhz - 700mhz, then maybe not so much. Or, you could go the route of a 4870 1gb @ 825ish+ core for ~ $200.

Dilemna here.
 
Originally posted by: SunnyD
Originally posted by: jaredpace
id take a $168 740mhz 260 192/216 over a $195 825mhz 4870 1gb
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I'd take a $169.99 stock clocked 4870 1GB over a $168.99 stock clocked GTX260
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Man these ATI cards look tempting and they come with more ram but I swore to never go ATI again until they fix their bloated .NET control panel. It's a huge resource hog plus it corrupted my windows on installation because I think I didn't have the latest .NET garbage version from MS.
 
Originally posted by: cheap
Originally posted by: SunnyD
Originally posted by: jaredpace
id take a $168 740mhz 260 192/216 over a $195 825mhz 4870 1gb
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I'd take a $169.99 stock clocked 4870 1GB over a $168.99 stock clocked GTX260
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Man these ATI cards look tempting and they come with more ram but I swore to never go ATI again until they fix their bloated .NET control panel. It's a huge resource hog plus it corrupted my windows on installation because I think I didn't have the latest .NET garbage version from MS.
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Yeah i havent cared for Ati's control panel since it needed net framework to run.
So ive been Nvidia for awhile now since its also easier to make individual game profiles with the Nvidia control panel.

Love ati cards, i just HATE their CCC.
 
Originally posted by: MTDEW
Originally posted by: cheap
Originally posted by: SunnyD
Originally posted by: jaredpace
id take a $168 740mhz 260 192/216 over a $195 825mhz 4870 1gb
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I'd take a $169.99 stock clocked 4870 1GB over a $168.99 stock clocked GTX260
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Man these ATI cards look tempting and they come with more ram but I swore to never go ATI again until they fix their bloated .NET control panel. It's a huge resource hog plus it corrupted my windows on installation because I think I didn't have the latest .NET garbage version from MS.
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Yeah i havent cared for Ati's control panel since it needed net framework to run.
So ive been Nvidia for awhile now since its also easier to make individual game profiles with the Nvidia control panel.

Love ati cards, i just HATE their CCC.
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First, it won't corrupt anything if you don't have .net installed....the CCC just won't install. Simple really. If you try to install CCC without .net, it fails install....didn't corrupt the Win XP install I did last weekend when I didn't have .net already loaded.

Second, if you hate CCC so much, just load the driver for the card. There are a host of alternatives out there to work with ATI and nVidia cards....like Riva Tuner. No excuse blaming CCC for anything.....just be truthful and say you're an nVidia fanboi and be done with it.

And, true, CCC does use a bit of memory.....about 12MB on a Vista Ultimate 64 install, but open Firefox with a couple of tabs and you get upwards of 50MB of memory use. Everything exacts a price in memory.....don't like CCC, don't install it. Use something else to regain its functionality........but don't discount the card just because you don't like some of its optional programming. That's sort of like discounting a car because you don't like its tires.
 
Just because someone doesn't like a certain software doesn't make them a "fanboi". I have always went with the best bang for the buck card, but if the price performance ratio is close then drivers and software usually tilt my decision. There is no doubt that nvidia is more on top of it in the driver area at the moment.
 
Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
Is it supposed to be for online too? Doesn't give an option for shipping for me.
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It *was* available online. 🙁 Looks like it's not anymore.
 
Originally posted by: Billyzeke
Just because someone doesn't like a certain software doesn't make them a "fanboi". I have always went with the best bang for the buck card, but if the price performance ratio is close then drivers and software usually tilt my decision. There is no doubt that nvidia is more on top of it in the driver area at the moment.
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Thank you i really didnt wanna get in a stupid argument over that with someone who doesnt even know me, and decides to just randomly toss out insults.

The part i bolded is what i do also. :thumbsup:

Anyway Beanie46,
YES, this is ANANDTECH and we ALL know you dont have to use the Ati CCC, and can use Rivatuner.
But i build pc's for other people who arent as computer literate as some of us, and dont care to be. (they just want the stuff to work and it to be simple)
And i'd much rather take 10min to show them how to make a game profile with Nvidia's control panel , then to even try to begin to explain how to do it in CCC or rivatuner.

Never argued against Ati's hardware, i happen to have an x1900 crossfire edition card right here next to me on the shelf from one of my old crossfire builds.

So whether you prefer Ati or Nvidia (i prefer whoever is faster when i buy for my personal systems), no one can deny the Ati CCC stinks.



Well, Enough of the thread crapping, theres a great deal on GTX 280's here.
God knows i spent way more for mine!
 
First, it won't corrupt anything if you don't have .net installed....the CCC just won't install. Simple really. If you try to install CCC without .net, it fails install....
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You would guess it's simple, not in ATI's case though. And certainly not when you include garbage like .NET into equation. I had .NET 1 installed for earlier versions of CCC. New CCC I think required .NET 2 which I didn't have installed. Not sure what went wrong but it doesn't change the fact that after installing latest CCC it hung my computer on initialization. Restarting computer it hangs it on log in for like 5 minutes because it auto loads services which in turn are trying to run the same initialization. Made my PC chug like a snail and overall made it unusable. At that point my pc got so corrupted that latest .NET and ccc uninstalls and reinstalls didn't help. ATI is known for their glitchy software, the reason I even bothered with their CCC in the first place was because I was getting micro stuttering in 10 year old games, another problem ATI drivers are known for and I wanted to play with vsync and other options to see if it will go away.

No excuse blaming CCC for anything.....just be truthful and say you're an nVidia fanboi and be done with it.
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I'm running an ATI card right now on AMD opteron system, which replaced a GeForce 4. I'm not rich enough to be a fanboi of anything. Bang for the buck goes to ATI right now with their 1gig of ram which games like GTA4 are already maxing out. I did say ATI cards look extremely appealing right now, I'm just put off by my previous experience with them. I'm still deciding wether I should go with slightly worse Nvidia buy but better track record or better ATI buy but possibly some problems in the future.

EDIT: Ok, one more thing and I'll let it go I promise. I've heard ATI CCC uses a lot more ram than 12 megs, somewhere close to 100 megs, but I can't test it out myself right now, maybe in a couple of days. You have to look at a whole memory usage before and after .NET/CCC installation, not just at CCC service alone in your Task Manager. Because it's using .NET framework it could be loading a whole bunch of files on start up into memory.
 
Ya the price was too much for me to resist...minimum frame rates were starting to bug me in my crossfire rig.
 
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