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NEW radeon 9800PRO 256mb DDR-II spotted (resembles the XT now)

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I found this at newegg and it looks totally different from the traditional radeon9800pro 256. The layout is completely different in the front and it sports new memory locations with a nvidia like heatsink covering everything with a single heatsink. I have customers interested in this graphics card and I would like to know if you guys think I should go with this one or the traditional one.

EDIT:

You guys are missing the point...

Compare the board layout of the new 256mb to this RADEON 9800XT

Then look how it has changed from the old 256mb
 
Interesting. I just found that card on newegg and came over here to post about it... A few days ago I posted a similar thread, asking if anybody had seen a card like the one I got from ebay:

http://www.mosportgp.com/prather/pics/DSC00019.JPG


128mb 9800Pro... until that 256meg card showed up on Newegg I couldn't find any hsf unit like it... Good sign for me I guess..

For what it's worth, the card has run great and the HSF seems to do a very good job...

John
 
Originally posted by: JnPrather
Interesting. I just found that card on newegg and came over here to post about it... A few days ago I posted a similar thread, asking if anybody had seen a card like the one I got from ebay:

http://www.mosportgp.com/prather/pics/DSC00019.JPG


128mb 9800Pro... until that 256meg card showed up on Newegg I couldn't find any hsf unit like it... Good sign for me I guess..

For what it's worth, the card has run great and the HSF seems to do a very good job...

John
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Is urs a 128mb? the transistors in the front or ur picture differ from that of neweggs. I wonder why only half the memory modules are covered... is there room for the open memory modules to be covered with BGA RAMsinks? Is there anything on the back of the card?
 
There isn't anything in the way of cooling or whatnot on the back if that's what you're asking... And yes, it's a 128 meg card... wasn't sure what it was, a few people mentioned that they thought it was a sapphire of some sort, seeing that HSF fan on a new sapphire card confirms that. My only theory is that it's a sapphire engineering sample card 128meg, and that hsf unit is an in-house design, that now they're starting to use on retail cards instead of the standard ones we've seen before... I dont think there's room for ramsinks, unless you made them smaller and then only covered the exposed part of the ram...

John
 
OK, it's (virtually) the same layout as the XT, meaning it's a clock-lowered XT without hardware monitoring. It's still expensive compared to the 128MB versions that often overclock to XT levels or past.
 
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