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Sapphire Video Card

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Kekewy

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I've never heard of the brand Sapphire before and I'm looking for a really nice video card for my new system. I found a Sapphire Radeon X800XL ULTIMATE 100116U Video Card on newegg and was wondering if anyone had heard anything about this card specifically, or just had an opinion on the brand itself.
Also, how do you tell if a card is an SLI card? I've heard a little about SLI, but am still kinda unfamilar with it.

The system I'm getting will have:
2 gigs RAM (Either Kingston or Corsair)
Athlon 64 X2 4400+ with the Toledo core
MSI K8N Platnium motherboard
And a Enermax 535W power supply
 
Sapphire brand is pretty good AFAIK.

SLI is a waste of money.

Get a different PSU, I suggest a Seasonic 500W or a Antec 550W.

CPU you picked is sweet.

 
What's AFAIK?

I don't want to set up an SLI system (or whatever you call it) I was just wondering how to tell.

Thanks on the CPU. ^_^
 
as far as i know = afaik
sapphire is one of the top brands for ati based cards i have owned many never had one fail.
 
sorry for the double post but sli is specific to nvidia.crossfire is the ati version of multiple gpu.sli uses an internal bridge to link the cards in most cases,ati uses an external cable or dongle as they call it to connect the cards together.You need a crossfire master card and a slave card to run crossfire.
 
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Sapphire is great, stick with them. Also, these people here are just repeating same thing over and over. That 535W Enermax Whisper 2 is a great power supply which is a great value. Also, avoid SLI, but since its an ATI card, there is no point in getting an SLI board.
 
I thought it was a good PSU. I got the motherboard not because it was SLI but because I liked all over it's other features. It just happens to be an SLI motherboard.
 
Enermax is a good brand. Get an Opteron 165 or 170 if you can find one instead of your X2 - better overclocking and larger cache for the same price if not cheaper.
 
I'm not planning on overclocking. I don't know how. And I mostly multitask. I've heard the dual core is the best for multitasking.
 
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