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Hey everyone,
I'm in the middle of a transaction to buy a Sapphire Radeon 9800Pro 128 256bit (OEM). A picture was posted of the card and after finding the Part Number I googled it to see related info. Here's the thing, I a came across a site that warned about this card with this PN because of it possibly being a defective (only 4 pipelines enabled) but still usable card. They even suggest that this might be a 9800SE. A couple of cross checking reveals that others are also aware of this. Anyway, am I making too much of this. The asking price is $80. I know it's a prettty good price regardless. I'm not even trying to say the seller was aware of this problem. He's been pretty cool about my "noobieness" and has answered any questions I had. I just pm'ed him about the info I found and I am waiting for his reply. I just wanted your input into this...Thanks...I was thinking of sending a link of the sellers thread so you guys can see the picture, but I don't want anyone to look at him suspicously so I won't. I have pasted a link where I read the article and also a link to a site that lists video cards by part number and that's where the card in question is listed as defective. You have to scroll down a little on both sites to see it.
http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28502&highlight=9800
http://www.computertradingpost.com/archives/CTP_Archive_18.htm
PN# 109-A07500-00
I'm in the middle of a transaction to buy a Sapphire Radeon 9800Pro 128 256bit (OEM). A picture was posted of the card and after finding the Part Number I googled it to see related info. Here's the thing, I a came across a site that warned about this card with this PN because of it possibly being a defective (only 4 pipelines enabled) but still usable card. They even suggest that this might be a 9800SE. A couple of cross checking reveals that others are also aware of this. Anyway, am I making too much of this. The asking price is $80. I know it's a prettty good price regardless. I'm not even trying to say the seller was aware of this problem. He's been pretty cool about my "noobieness" and has answered any questions I had. I just pm'ed him about the info I found and I am waiting for his reply. I just wanted your input into this...Thanks...I was thinking of sending a link of the sellers thread so you guys can see the picture, but I don't want anyone to look at him suspicously so I won't. I have pasted a link where I read the article and also a link to a site that lists video cards by part number and that's where the card in question is listed as defective. You have to scroll down a little on both sites to see it.
http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28502&highlight=9800
http://www.computertradingpost.com/archives/CTP_Archive_18.htm
PN# 109-A07500-00