16 Pipe X800GTO from Sapphire $199 + $5 shipping

[Tates]

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki

apparently you failed to read the resellerratings on pagecomputers. IIRC, I read that they will take orders on items they dont even have in stock, hold your money for a few days/weeks (possibly earn interest ??) and then only refund back when you complain.

This is why we don't list pagecomputer in RTPE.

Kristopher

QFT

 

[dogmir]

mine is on the way from allstar i ordered on sat and they shipped today.....but it says won't see it till friday which makes me sad

 

[Derektm]

Originally posted by: dogmir
mine is on the way from allstar i ordered on sat and they shipped today.....but it says won't see it till friday which makes me sad

I need to RMA my motherboard (fan ports aren't working anymore...) but im going to just HAVE to keep it for an extra day because tommorow I have a X800GTO2 _AND_ ATI Silencer 5 rev. 2 comming in. Going to get this baby crankin' hopefully. I will post my results around 5 PM Central tommorow!

Wish me luck!

Edit: I ordered from newegg at $219 and $224 shipped. Newegg will replace anything and has a good RMA policy. Better safe than sorry here for only $15 extra or so.

 

[lhotdeals]

Originally posted by: lhotdeals

I am actually thinking about doing that! I knew the risks, that's why I used my AMEX in the purchase, so i get a 90 day money back guarantee from AMEX. I even called Pagecomputers on Friday the 30th to follow up on my order, a lady picked up and told me there is a 1-2 days processing time and my order should be shipped soon.

I will wait til tomorrow, if the item is still not shipped I will call to cancel.

Nevermind, I just got home and there it is at my door!

But to my surprise, the card is not in retail package, but in a brown cardboard box. Looks like all the accessaries are inside the box, the card is in a antistatic bag with no seal.

Upon close inspection of the card, it seems used, but in good condition. There are scrach marks on the DVI connector and PCI-E connectors of the card (Do new cards come with marks?). Driver CD seems untouched. Not sure what my chances are at modding the card, if it is a return it is obviously one that failed... but I won't know for sure until Wednesday when the rest of my parts come in.

 

[saechaka]

Originally posted by: lhotdeals

Originally posted by: lhotdeals

I am actually thinking about doing that! I knew the risks, that's why I used my AMEX in the purchase, so i get a 90 day money back guarantee from AMEX. I even called Pagecomputers on Friday the 30th to follow up on my order, a lady picked up and told me there is a 1-2 days processing time and my order should be shipped soon.

I will wait til tomorrow, if the item is still not shipped I will call to cancel.

Nevermind, I just got home and there it is at my door!

But to my surprise, the card is not in retail package, but in a brown cardboard box. Looks like all the accessaries are inside the box, the card is in a antistatic bag with no seal.

Upon close inspection of the card, it seems used, but in good condition. There are scrach marks on the DVI connector and PCI-E connectors of the card (Do new cards come with marks?). Driver CD seems untouched. Not sure what my chances are at modding the card, if it is a return it is obviously one that failed... but I won't know for sure until Wednesday when the rest of my parts come in.

this is not good news and just as i expected. i really hope it's not a used card. looking at their return policy you get charged %15 restocking on good items and %10 on defective.

 

[BlackPear1]

I got mine today (from Newegg) and the DVI connector had scratches but the contacts that insert in the PCIe slot showed no evidence of prior installation and everything else looked new. More important, it unlocked easily with a bios flash.

Edit: I just looked at a product shot (angle view from the connector side of the card) on a vendor site and the DVI connector on that card has the same marks as the card I received - I doubt that there's any reason to worry. Besides, no matter how it looks, I'm sure that you will give it a thorough test before the return period expires.

 

[lhotdeals]

Originally posted by: BlackPear1
I got mine today (from Newegg) and the DVI connector had scratches but the contacts that insert in the PCIe slot showed no evidence of prior installation and everything else looked new. More important, it unlocked easily with a bios flash.

Edit: I just looked at a product shot (angle view from the connector side of the card) on a vendor site and the DVI connector on that card has the same marks as the card I received - I doubt that there's any reason to worry. Besides, no matter how it looks, I'm sure that you will give it a thorough test before the return period expires.

Yes, I will definitely give it a RUN before I return it, and thank god I used my AMEX card which offers full refund on anything within 90 days if the store won't take care of you.

Now I am thinking whether to order another one from EWiz or Allstarshop just to be sure I get one of these puppies before they run out.

Also did your card come in a Sealed Bag?

 

[Basilisk]

Hmmm... Page raised their price to $277+$8s/h!! 'Guess I'd put up with Atacom's RR=6.62 and get it for $200+$7s/h.

 

[Pocatello]

Originally posted by: Basilisk
Hmmm... Page raised their price to $277+$8s/h!! 'Guess I'd put up with Atacom's RR=6.62 and get it for $200+$7s/h.

As long as people are willing to pay for this amazing videocards, these e-stores will keep jacking up the price, to see what the ceiling is. This thing is almost as exciting as that Hitachi monitor back in the daysI Actually, more like a 400MHz Celeron with die-on cache, which you could OC like crazy. Good times...good times .

 

[BlackPear1]

Originally posted by: lhotdeals
Also did your card come in a Sealed Bag?

Mine came on a sheet of antistatic foam in an unsealed antistatic envelope.

 

[jldash]

Originally posted by: Inappropriate4AT
Stop ordering from Newegg alltogether. They keep tabs on the forums, and they know that we know what you get when you order an X800GTO^2. They figure if they raise the price $20 you'll still buy, start ordering from Atacom/Ewiz until Newegg stops being a bunch of dicks and lowers the price again.

INDEED!

 

[Pocatello]

Originally posted by: jldash

Originally posted by: Inappropriate4AT
Stop ordering from Newegg alltogether. They keep tabs on the forums, and they know that we know what you get when you order an X800GTO^2. They figure if they raise the price $20 you'll still buy, start ordering from Atacom/Ewiz until Newegg stops being a bunch of dicks and lowers the price again.

INDEED!

As the demand goes up, while the supply is dwindling (many believe this is a limited edition), we might not have a choice but to pay more. Newegg is raising price again. I'm surprise to see a couple of places where you can buy it for $200 before S/H.

 

[gsethi]

Originally posted by: jldash

Originally posted by: Inappropriate4AT
Stop ordering from Newegg alltogether. They keep tabs on the forums, and they know that we know what you get when you order an X800GTO^2. They figure if they raise the price $20 you'll still buy, start ordering from Atacom/Ewiz until Newegg stops being a bunch of dicks and lowers the price again.

INDEED!

Supply and Demand. It takes a willing buyer and a willing seller to complete the transaction. Its not like they are forcing you to purchase the card at that price. You are free to purchase from anywhere else or any other card.

This is BUSINESS.
If you think of it, Airlines do almost the same exact thing. Raise prices during holidays b/c demand is high. Reduce prices when schools open b/c demand drops.

Same thing with the Car industry. When new model comes out, prices on the newer model is high (high demand, low supply) but you can get that same vehicle for less few months down the road (low demand, higher supply).

For Ihotdeals:
Yes, AMEX has a 90 day return policy but they wont refund you the full purchase price. They wont refund you the Sales Tax (if you paid) and they wont refund the Shipping & Handling charges you paid. Also, you will have to pay for shipping the card back to them.

Even my card from CV/Newegg came in a white OEM back. Cables, manuals etc were in a ziplock bag and the actual card was in an unsealed anti-static bag with foam in it. On my card, even the sticker wasnt applied properly, it is slightly out of line with the heatsink.

Atacom is a real company. I have been to their warehouse in Fremont, CA (local pickup option) and they do keep decent amount of inventory and the people are nice. But I have dealth with them only once and I picked up in person, so cant comment on their shipping time. and I definately dont have any experience with their RMA.

Lately, I prefer ewiz (items that wont need RMA) but even they do price gauging sometimes. I get stuff from them the next day as compared to 2 days for newegg. But newegg's RMA policy is the best. Only other company that I have seen to provide a similar RMA service is mwave and Staples

EDIT: It seems like newegg/CV got a 2nd batch of these cards. Their first batch was a small one of about ~70 or so cards and that sold out within 2-3 hours of posting this deal. Please let us know if the newer batch also mods successfully.

So far, these cards have a 100% successful mod rate. But it wont be long till Sapphire starts using the actual chips (with non-working pipes) instead of the R480 core chips in the card. Companies will do this occasionally when they have more of the extra expensive cores and lesser of the cheaper cores but once they run out of the expensive cores, they start using the actual core that they were supposed to use. Remember the earlier versions of x800pro vivo cards or the first few batches of nvidia 6800 (non-gt) cards where most of the cards were modded successfully but the later ones didnt.

 

[lhotdeals]

Originally posted by: BlackPear1

Originally posted by: lhotdeals
Also did your card come in a Sealed Bag?

Mine came on a sheet of antistatic foam in an unsealed antistatic envelope.

Mine is in the exact same package, maybe it is new after all

 

[Pollock]

ZZF now has the retail one for $214. Right after I ordered from Atacom, too.

 

[kamranziadar]

Originally posted by: hellfire88
ok, thanks.

Hmmmm, I'm on the verge of pulling the trigger....I've already got a 6800GT running at 6800 Ultra speeds. I wonder if this'll be a worthwhile upgrade? (mainly worried since the X800's don't have SM 3.0...I think)

No it is not worth an upgrade, because you have 12 pipe video card and second even 100% chance of unlocking 16pipes i would stick with my 16pipe 6800GT which is overclocked to Ultra speed, and it has SM 3.0

ATI is using megahertz war for memory and core, but their technology is old. The result will be the same like Intel lose to AMD in speed war.

 

[Garlic]

Originally posted by: kamranziadar
No it is not worth an upgrade, because you have 12 pipe video card and second even 100% chance of unlocking 16pipes i would stick with my 16pipe 6800GT which is overclocked to Ultra speed, and it has SM 3.0

ATI is using megahertz war for memory and core, but their technology is old. The result will be the same like Intel lose to AMD in speed war.

1. This card has 16 piplines.
2. It will smoke a 6800gt.
3. SM 3.0 does nothing. Dont be a fool.

 

[Hacp]

Stupid price gouging. Thats what all the big vendors do with hot items with limited aviliblity.

 

[Lithan]

Originally posted by: Garlic

Originally posted by: kamranziadar
No it is not worth an upgrade, because you have 12 pipe video card and second even 100% chance of unlocking 16pipes i would stick with my 16pipe 6800GT which is overclocked to Ultra speed, and it has SM 3.0

ATI is using megahertz war for memory and core, but their technology is old. The result will be the same like Intel lose to AMD in speed war.

1. This card has 16 piplines.
2. It will smoke a 6800gt.
3. SM 3.0 does nothing. Dont be a fool.

Yes, after you mod it. If you were to sell it as a 16pipe card, that would however be fraud along the same lines as selling a 3700+ that runs at 2800mhz as an fx57
In Halflife 2, yeah. In everything else? No.
Does 32 bit color do anything, oh genius of the retards?



Quite frankly, unless you play mostly HL2, due to the MASSIVE drop in 6800gt value lately, it wouldn't be wise to switch cards. You'll probably only break even or wind up with a few dollars. And the gt would beat the gto2 in the majority of situations by a slight amount. Also, the loss of 3.0 is a bad thing. It makes a difference in games that support it. Take a look at side by side SS if you can find them.

 

[Garlic]

Originally posted by: Lithan
Yes, after you mod it. If you were to sell it as a 16pipe card, that would however be fraud along the same lines as selling a 3700+ that runs at 2800mhz as an fx57
In Halflife 2, yeah. In everything else? No.
Does 32 bit color do anything, oh genius of the retards?



Quite frankly, unless you play mostly HL2, due to the MASSIVE drop in 6800gt value lately, it wouldn't be wise to switch cards. You'll probably only break even or wind up with a few dollars. And the gt would beat the gto2 in the majority of situations by a slight amount. Also, the loss of 3.0 is a bad thing. It makes a difference in games that support it. Take a look at side by side SS if you can find them.

lol.

What you dont understand is these GTO2 cards are actually X850XT PEs. Hence the slaughting of the 6800gt.

Here you go. <-- X850XT PE spoon feeding a 6800gt even on its own turf (Doom 3)

 

[gsethi]

Originally posted by: Garlic

Originally posted by: Lithan
Yes, after you mod it. If you were to sell it as a 16pipe card, that would however be fraud along the same lines as selling a 3700+ that runs at 2800mhz as an fx57
In Halflife 2, yeah. In everything else? No.
Does 32 bit color do anything, oh genius of the retards?



Quite frankly, unless you play mostly HL2, due to the MASSIVE drop in 6800gt value lately, it wouldn't be wise to switch cards. You'll probably only break even or wind up with a few dollars. And the gt would beat the gto2 in the majority of situations by a slight amount. Also, the loss of 3.0 is a bad thing. It makes a difference in games that support it. Take a look at side by side SS if you can find them.

lol.

What you dont understand the these GTO2 cards are actually X850XT PEs. Hence the slaughter of the 6800gt.

Here you go. <-- X850XT PE spoon feeding a 6800gt even on its own turf (Doom 3)

Garlic, No use talking/arguing with a nVidia fanboy .

let's enjoy our ~$320 worth of performance by spending ~$200 while let him enjoy his ~$300 worth of performance by spending ~$300.

PS: I did sell my x800XL (a 16 pipe card) for this one and couldnt be happier

 

[NaiMan]

I'm still waiting on my card. ordered on the 29th from page

 

[Doug117]

Damn damn damn knew I should have bought this last night... EWiz is OOS, ZZF is OOS (which i almost bought from last night). Dont want to pay 213 + 8 for allstarshop or 229 + 5 for Newegg, and Directron shows them coming in on the 6th, but the Add To Cart button is gone now, which may mean they've sold out already. I just called them too and the CSA couldnt find it in the system, but she sees it on their site and was also baffled at why there was no add to cart button. Man oh man, i may just bite the bullet before they're totally gone

<edit> Bah, just bit the bullet and ordered 2 from allstarshop (one for me and one for a friend whos building a new computer as well) I better see these prices keep going up or the supply dry out or I'm gonna be mad </edit>

 

[hypeMarked]

Newegg has it for 199.99 again. 219.99 - 20 instant off

 

[dogmir]

i see allstar raised their prices to 218 now...i am glad i bought it on sat. cause it was 213 with free shipping