Sapphire X1800XT 512MB @ $264 shipped from the egg

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cubeless

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it works... decided to get one... best price/perf for the stuff my kid does (selling his 800xl to one of his friends)... was going to go with the his card, but didn't want to do another $80 rebate... have a sapphire 9500 that unlocked and oc'd to > 9700pro and has been being heavily abused for >2 years...

might have gone for the cc 7900gt if it really ever existed...
 
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v8envy

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Picked one up as well. 266 shipped via fedex rather than UPS, no rebates. Lots more than I wanted to spend for a video card, but I'm expecting it to last me at least 2 years.
 
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Ike0069

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I've been leaning towards the 7900 GT and doing the Volt mod/OC. But for this price, this is tought to pass up. If it were only 256, no way, but for the 512 version this is extremely tempting.

 
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Trikat

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Originally posted by: Ike0069
I've been leaning towards the 7900 GT and doing the Volt mod/OC. But for this price, this is tought to pass up. If it were only 256, no way, but for the 512 version this is extremely tempting.
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If you are not going to upgrade to another card within a year I would get the X1800 XT 512mb over the 7900GT. The extra ram will help out when games get more intensive.
 
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TheSuper

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Man I hope my evga 7900gt from stepup comes in this week so I can sell it and buy this. I have not been happy with the texture crawling I have seen with my 7800gt that I just stepped up from. I had x850xt Pe before the 7800gt and to me the image was alot better and way less jaggies even though on the 7800gt I could run 8x AA compared to only 6Xaa on the x850. Looks like if this deal holds while I sell my 7900gt I will have to get new crossfire mb as well. Great deal here only wish the crossfire edition cards were that cheap as well.
 
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hondaf17

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Originally posted by: Trikat
Originally posted by: Ike0069
I've been leaning towards the 7900 GT and doing the Volt mod/OC. But for this price, this is tought to pass up. If it were only 256, no way, but for the 512 version this is extremely tempting.
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If you are not going to upgrade to another card within a year I would get the X1800 XT 512mb over the 7900GT. The extra ram will help out when games get more intensive.
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I think that's already the case. GR:AW will be released this week and the developer (GRIN) has said that putting textures on "high" won't even be an enabled option in the game unless you have a 512 MB card. It seems people have confirmed that with the demo, but until the retail version hits PC's it's hard to tell.

I picked one of these up as well - awesome deal and Newegg is splendid.

 
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Extelleron

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Originally posted by: masamune2387
Originally posted by: dani
If you don't mind dealing with the rebate the HIS 1800XT is $249 after rebate.
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that's 256 megs, not 512
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Unless you play 2048x1536 4x/16x, you're lucky to see a 2-3% performance gain in a few games.
 
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Ike0069

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Originally posted by: Navid
What is the warranty on this? Is it lifetime like EVGA 7900GT?
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Good question. I'd like to know this also and I can't seem to find the info on their site.
 
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Gumby84

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Looks like the $309 Sapphire is out of stock now. Glad I got in on this deal yesterday :)
 
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