oem video cards?

[xtknight]

This is probably a dumb question, but whatever. We see ATI Radeon X800 PRO Retail cards for around $400 nowadays. If it didn't include 3 games and all the driver/whatever CDs, wouldn't the cost go down significantly (unless they get the games for free somehow)?. These games are $30 full edition ones, correct? That should knock a chunk off the price, but I haven't seen an OEM video card in ages. I'm just curious, anybody know why?

 

[CoBRaXT]

The Fry's here in Vegas sells quite a bit of OEM cards. I'd say about 35-40% of their entire Video Card section are OEM's....

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: CoBRaXT
The Fry's here in Vegas sells quite a bit of OEM cards. I'd say about 35-40% of their entire Video Card section are OEM's....

Well that's very interesting. Even modern GeForce 6800s or ATI X800s?

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Newegg lists 108 OEM to 652 Retail so there are plenty to choose from. There are 5 total Sapphire X800 Pro cards. Why?

I personally won't buy anymore OEM video cards as the price difference is too minimal to worry about.

 

[xtknight]

Oh, okay. I guess I'm just blind

 

[syconub]

thats ok, i get lazy too.

 

[CoBRaXT]

Originally posted by: xtknight

Originally posted by: CoBRaXT
The Fry's here in Vegas sells quite a bit of OEM cards. I'd say about 35-40% of their entire Video Card section are OEM's....

Well that's very interesting. Even modern GeForce 6800s or ATI X800s?

Yeah, they had a few 6800 Ultra's OEM as well. Not sure about x800's though.
Most of the OEM's were low to mid range cards, like the FX 5xxx and the ATI 9xxx series.