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which make is better for 9800 pro

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aces170

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which is the better of the 2 cards avaliable at newegg.com
1 .ati radeon 9800 pro by sapphire-bulk
2. ati radeon 9800 pro by MSI -retail

what is the difference between bulk,oem,retail
 
well, a retail card is usually boxed with drivers, software, cables, etc, while bulk/oem is not boxed and you only get the card itself, and nothing else. The oem/bulk will be cheaper, and its fine for most system builders who dont want the 12th copy of windvd from retail boxes...

your choice really, but i would go for the oem/bulk.
 
i forgot to mention the prices the MSI card is 197$ and saphire card is 211$.
 
i've been using a visiontek 9800 pro 128mb until today (got my new 6800 gt). I did visiontek cuz many of the reviews for this particular card had good overclocking results...i was able to do 432 core and 373 mem 24/7...all i added was actic silver 5 to the gpu heatsink and eventually bought some of the tweak monster ram sinks, which only raised my max mem oc by about 5mhz. My case also has a fan on the side pointed right over the agp slot so i'm sure that helped alot. I basically had a card that was running faster than a stock 9800 xt =). 3dmark 03 scores were around 6500+.....just something to consider if you are wanting a card that will oc well
 
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