X850XT question...

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cisobe

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Ok, its alittle late now, but I just ordered a Sapphire X850XT Retail card for Newegg earlier today, but I was alittle confused as to why the OEM card was $499 while the retail card was going for $459... I made sure I was getting the PCI Express card and not the AGP one... But does anyone know what it was $40 cheaper then the OEM...
 
Ok i dont know the answer to your question, but please tell me you didnt buy that x850pe for that rig in your sig?..........



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don't hate on it too much, that card is definately gonna be bottlenecked by his CPU, but still, it'll be a good performance increase for him on newer games and he'll already have a great card if he upgrades his other stuff..... to the original poster, I would consider upgrading that rig to a gig of RAM and maybe an athlon XP 3200+ (according to MSI's site, you can run a 400fsb processor)...... probably be as good as an A64 3000+ rig or so, at least on 32-bit stuff........ on the price issue, I guess Newegg just got a good deal on the retail packages or something..... or it was on sale.....
 
coolie_d said:
don't hate on it too much, that card is definately gonna be bottlenecked by his CPU, but still, it'll be a good performance increase for him on newer games and he'll already have a great card if he upgrades his other stuff..... to the original poster, I would consider upgrading that rig to a gig of RAM and maybe an athlon XP 3200+ (according to MSI's site, you can run a 400fsb processor)...... probably be as good as an A64 3000+ rig or so, at least on 32-bit stuff........
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Sure, you could just be right. Of course, all he has to do now is figure out how to fit his PCI-E card in a slot of some description......:D
 
uhhhhh :confused: ..... holy crap, I didn't notice the part where he explicitly said he got the PCI-E card, so I guess he's obviously building a new PC, or hasn't updated his sig in awhile....

EDIT: or he's gonna try to wedge it into the AGP slot with a sledgehammer.... :D No offense meant to the original poster :)
 
heh... Come on... I'm not a total noob....

My rig in my sig is my old comp... I typically do a overhaul every couple years and I typically get the best that is in my price range... typically spending roughly $1200...

Anyways, just for your info... My new rig:

Ahtlon 64 3500+ (Venice Core)
1 Gig Corsair DDR400
Asus Nforce4 Ultra Mobo (I don't intend on running 2 vid cards, hence the no crossfire/SLI mobo)...
X850XT 256mb Sapphire Vid Card
80gig Seagate SATA HDD
16x DVD+/-R DVD Burnder
Antec Super Lanboy Case
480watt Antec Power supply
Dell 2005FPW LCD Monitor <--- okay that was out of my budget but oh well :D
 
cool.... i'm looking into doing something similar, but with a 4000+ sandiego chip, hope to get a nForce3 board though, since I still need to use my AGP card for now.... at least the old AGP boards are somewhat cheap.....
 
You could be in luck. DFI with their NF3250gb with a 939 socket is the one to look at, from what ive been hearing. should be out by the end of the month.
 
Coolie D why not just get a 3700+ San Diego and OC to 4000+? Save some money. 4000 isn't worth the price.
 
thanx for the suggestions guys..... Farkle, I was kinda thinking that way about the CPU...... just wasn't sure yet but you are right, the 4000+ is quite a bit more....
 
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