WTF!!! brought a sapphire 9700pro, got an ATi 9700pro!!!

[BoomAM]

Hi,
i just brought a Sapphire Atlantis 9700PRO. I chose this cos i came with everything i needed(free version of SOF2), and i liked the heatsink. So i went to the shop, brought it, checked the revision of the board(rev3 doesnt have stuttering probs, or cold boot probs), luckly it was revision3, but the heatsink was the ATI one. It even had the ATI logo on it. The only thing different from an official ATI board was that there was no sticker on the board itself saying ATI.
Also, i got no SOF2. I asked the shop assistant, and he said that thats how sapphire are doing it now. cos its cheaper for them to use a standard heatsink/software/extras bundle. He also said that ATI make their cards, and give them to Sapphire. whata load of B*%^~@:S. Its the other way round.
So in a Sapphire Atlantis 9700PRO box, i got.
a manual with sapphire written on the front.
a driver cd with sapphire written on the front
A S-Video cable
A Composite cable
A S-Video to Composite converter.
A Y-Splitter cable w/floppy connector
A Copy of PowerDVD XP 4.0
The card itself

Im not to conserned, but i would have thought that sapphire would have at least updated their website about the product changes.

 

[TheLeviathan]

I just recieved the EXACT same thing, only my card is supposedly a FIC ATO10. It works just fine.

 

[BoomAM]

Yeah. It works fine. Very well infact. But i just wondered

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: BoomAM
Yeah. It works fine. Very well infact. But i just wondered

sapphire is the manufacturer of all the red ATI cards. they are all the same, except the serial numbers are different on some of them, so ATI knows which ones were sold as ATI.


FIC's radeon 8500s were also real ATIs with new stickers. i had an at008 before and you could peel off the fic stickers to see ati ones under them.