Newegg - $30 AR FS - EVGA 01G-P3-1226-LR GeForce GT 220 1GB 128-bit DDR3

UGH MIR. But the price is hot. I hate it how MIR's don't give you cash anymore but prepaid debit cards, so you can't pay bills you have to buy something. That said I think the card is so much better than my 4350 second rig card by guesstimation.
 
Cool, I'll get this for my file server then.

I used to just demote my ol' video cards to that job, but a 5870 is way overkill for a file server...
 
Caligulax said:
UGH MIR. But the price is hot. I hate it how MIR's don't give you cash anymore but prepaid debit cards, so you can't pay bills you have to buy something. That said I think the card is so much better than my 4350 second rig card by guesstimation.
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I can't stand the cards either. And, if they're from Citi, you have even more to worry about...

See: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1492519
 
Caligulax said:
UGH MIR. But the price is hot. I hate it how MIR's don't give you cash anymore but prepaid debit cards, so you can't pay bills you have to buy something. That said I think the card is so much better than my 4350 second rig card by guesstimation.
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I always use them to buy fuel. No biggie. I would prefer cash though too, but that's the way the world is going now. Pretty good deal anyways.
 
I don't mind the debit cards, however I have managed to get two of them that would not work until store clerks called the 800 number on the back of the cards. nothing sucks like standing at a register for 10 minutes while the store treats you like a thug because your generic debit cards fails.

I had best buy tell me once they did not accept debit cards without raised numbers on them as well :eek:
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Caligulax said:
UGH MIR. But the price is hot. I hate it how MIR's don't give you cash anymore but prepaid debit cards, so you can't pay bills you have to buy something. That said I think the card is so much better than my 4350 second rig card by guesstimation.
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You can deposit them into your bank acct like checks. I've done it.
 
I do not buy MIR products without a good mail in rebate policy. EVGA used to be awesome, a paper check to your door in <2 weeks. Not anymore. Third party online registration, spam your head until it implodes, take forever to process your rebate claim, and then send you a debit card that makes people think you're running a scam. Fuck that. Not taking part.
 
It'd be awesome if this thing had a passive heatsink. It'd be great for an HTPC (assuming it didn't have integrated graphcis).
 
So, is the consensus then to forget the MIR, consider the card as $65, and find a better $65 card to buy?

If the latter, what's the cheapest card one can buy that has either no extra power requirements, or just needs one 6-pin power plug, and is dual-link DVI? (I imagine most if not all cards are finally DL DVI though...)

I just know the PSU going into my old gaming machine only has a single 6-pin PCIe power plug, so I need to downgrade my 5870 that's in it...
 
This makes a delicious physx card. Hopefully this deal is around when I order my GTX 470s
 
TheGamerZ said:
You can deposit them into your bank acct like checks. I've done it.
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When I got my cell phone, the rebate debit card actually came with instructions on how to deposit it into your bank account. The transaction is a very specific thing that the bank has to do and the teller that did for me said she'd only done it a few times before but it definitely can be done, just as TheGamerZ says.
 
meatycheesyboy said:
When I got my cell phone, the rebate debit card actually came with instructions on how to deposit it into your bank account. The transaction is a very specific thing that the bank has to do and the teller that did for me said she'd only done it a few times before but it definitely can be done, just as TheGamerZ says.
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check the thread linked earlier, even after you deposit these, you are not completely done with the cards. you get left with a open citi account in your name which can screw you later.
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ocellaris said:
check the thread linked earlier, even after you deposit these, you are not completely done with the cards. you get left with a open citi account in your name which can screw you later.
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This.
 
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