Sapphire 9800Pro $166

This was a made-by-ATI retail package 9800 Pro 128 mb. It's running burn-in right now.
 
Gauvain said:
This was a made-by-ATI retail package 9800 Pro 128 mb. It's running burn-in right now.
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Was this their regular price? Not a return or anything? No rebates?

I gotta check my local Fry's...
 
Not open box. Retail, shrinkwrapped, all parts. Shiny, ect. I am not sure if this was a sale. Hard to tell at Frys.
 
If it was the Frys deal, I'm not sure. My friend is obsessed with throwing away boxes, and it wasn't relevant to the purchase.
 
I was referring to the Frye deal. I should have my refurb sapphire 9800pro tomorrow from Newegg. All I want is it to work without issues. If it has an R360 core, that is jsut a bonus.
 
mdaniel said:
Not sure, if mine arrives tomorrow night and it is a dud...I will definitely look into it and get you an snwer. My invoice from Newegg says nothing about it being a refurb or being used. So as far as Sapphire (ATI) would know, it would just be an OEM. Unless someone else has more information.
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The model number has an R at the end of it to denote refurbished.
 
two of my friends ordered these, one got his 2 days ago, the other today. I, being the only computer literate one among them, had to set up both cards and they are running like a dream. One of the cards was kind of a dud with overclocking, but the other is overclocking fantastically. I havnt had a chance to check the cores, but I will later on. I would do it today, but its my birthday and im sitting on my ass all day...so, maybe tomorrow
 
Happy Birthday. What, no one got you a 6800Gt as a present?

FedEx dropped mine off at the house 8 minutes ago. Too bad I still have 5 hrs to go until I get home. Even if it is only a minor improvement over my 9700np, it will temporarily satisfy my urge to open my box and play with it and see how far I can OC it. As long as it works that is ;)
 
mdaniel said:
Happy Birthday. What, no one got you a 6800Gt as a present?

FedEx dropped mine off at the house 8 minutes ago. Too bad I still have 5 hrs to go until I get home. Even if it is only a minor improvement over my 9700np, it will temporarily satisfy my urge to open my box and play with it and see how far I can OC it. As long as it works that is ;)
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Ehg....I could only hope for a GT, gotta save up on my own for that. MY parents did get an X-Dreamer II tho, which has turned out ot be a kick ass case
 
Well, my Sapphire 9800pro is now installed and works fine. Not bad for $67 (after selling my 9700 for $100). Default according to ATItool is 378/338. Initially, max core was only 406 and max mem was around 379 before I stopped it out of curiosity. I removed the stock heatsink and discovered the core was only a R350...oh well. Judging by the massive amount of silver paste on the core and the HS, I figure someone ordered it hoping it had an R360 core and then RMA'ed it when they discovered a R350 core instead. I then applied a more appropriate amount of AS3 and now my max core is reading 413. So I'm running it at 406/370 w/ no artifacts. I'll retest the core when my VGA Silencer arrives Monday and I install it on Tuesday. My 3DMark2001 score went up almost 4000 points more than my OC'ed 9700np (350/300), to 16812. I gotta dl 3DMark2003 again to see its score, as my 9700 would only do in the 4000's.

This should last me six more months or so :)
 
mdaniel said:
Well, my Sapphire 9800pro is now installed and works fine. Not bad for $67 (after selling my 9700 for $100). Default according to ATItool is 378/338. Initially, max core was only 406 and max mem was around 379 before I stopped it out of curiosity. I removed the stock heatsink and discovered the core was only a R350...oh well. Judging by the massive amount of silver paste on the core and the HS, I figure someone ordered it hoping it had an R360 core and then RMA'ed it when they discovered a R350 core instead. I then applied a more appropriate amount of AS3 and now my max core is reading 413. So I'm running it at 406/370 w/ no artifacts. I'll retest the core when my VGA Silencer arrives Monday and I install it on Tuesday. My 3DMark2001 score went up almost 4000 points more than my OC'ed 9700np (350/300), to 16812. I gotta dl 3DMark2003 again to see its score, as my 9700 would only do in the 4000's.

This should last me six more months or so :)
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Fantastic results for a refurb...nice purchase. Granted it doesn't have a stellar core oc, 413/370 are still good results and it doesn't seem to have any defects. Most aren't so lucky with newegg refub video cards (YES, they seem to have the highest defect rate of all refurbs from what i've gathered over the past two years)
 
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