Originally posted by: sanstrom
What about all of the 9700 well documented compatibility problems?? And don't say "I never had any problems". That don't mean jack. Have you gone into a Best Buy or Fry's or local store that sell these cards. Look at the return tags on the boxes. I'd say over 2/3 are cards that were returned. To me that says .......
Dude, you are not an OVERCLOCKER, aren't you? Those card are not defective or anything. They are returned simply because they are not able to be overclocked insanely high, like 380, 400+ core. With Nvidia Gefore FX, you don't need to worry about that at all, because they simply CAN'T be overclocked at all. Those returned Geforce FX will appear sooner or later, since no one can stand their noisy spinning fans. LOL.
Also, the fact of 2/3 of the cards were returned is totally incorrect! In all the 4 BestBuys around Boston area, I never saw any 9700pro stayed on shelf for more than 3 days. They are all sold out very quick even at tagged $399 price.
Personally, my Radeon 9700pro is clocked at 370/330, and I never had any compatibility problems with it at all.