Radeon 9800 pro under $160??!!

[narcotic]

Hi, I just checked pricewatch, and saw this is it a real 9800 pro? and if so, then how can it be so low price, and why is the 9700 pro more expenssive. Me is confused
please advice..

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: narcotic
Hi, I just checked pricewatch, and saw this is it a real 9800 pro? and if so, then how can it be so low price, and why is the 9700 pro more expenssive. Me is confused
please advice..

Nope, not a real 9800 Pro. First of all, the core/memory speed is a dead giveaway: 380/300. The usual is 380/340.

But it gets much worse. It's a crippled card because if you read further you see the memory:

128MB (DDR) - 128-Bit

Regular Radeon 9800 cards use a 256-bit bus. This card has less than half the memory bandwidth of regular 9800's.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Nope, not a real 9800 Pro. First of all, the core/memory speed is a dead giveaway: 380/300. The usual is 340/325 (I believe). Or it could be 340/300 (I forget).

"Real" 9800Pros should be 380/340 (DDR680 on the memory).

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Matthias99

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Nope, not a real 9800 Pro. First of all, the core/memory speed is a dead giveaway: 380/300. The usual is 340/325 (I believe). Or it could be 340/300 (I forget).

"Real" 9800Pros should be 380/340 (DDR680 on the memory).

Yeah I just changed it in my post... It didn't sound right to me either so I did some reasearch into it and it is indeed 380/340.

 

[narcotic]

Thanks for this. Now how about this one, which is also fairly cheap?

 

[Matthias99]

That looks legit. Going rate is about $200, and it's on sale for $180. And AFAIK, only Sapphire made 128-bit 9800Pros.

 

[narcotic]

Now I noticed, apparently they named the crippled cards "Radeon 9800 pro EZ" which seems like an extenssion to the SE family, only with the pro version.