ATI Sapphire 9800se 128 meg non pro refurb for $106.00 at newegg!

[cownipples]

I just bought one of these for my sons computer figured i would share this deal with others. I have had pretty good luck with these! I also purchased the artic silencer cooler to install on this should be a nice setup for $130.00 total! I heard these se's have a mod to turn them into a pro version I will try it!

 

[kulki]

Is that a good price?

 

[vcarpio]

The card is good. I got the non-refurb, supposedly OEM from NewEgg at 138. It came retail-packaged. A nice big improvement over my GeForce3 TI 200. Best upgrade money I spent to date. (Especially since I'm sunk deep into FarCry...)

 

[Z80]

This is the one you want - Link
The Powercolor 9800SE 256bit model with L shaped memory.
$121 refurb or $157 new
Softmod has a 70% chance of working and oc's well.
Do you feel lucky?

I do, I ordered the refurb last night

I also have this one - Link
Sapphire 9500 non-pro with L shaped memory
Softmod turned it into a 9700 and oc'ing made it perform better than a 9700 Pro.
5800's in 3DMark03

 

[jpeyton]

There is a 90% chance that the reason those cards are refurbed is because they already failed to softmod and were returned.

 

[Z80]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
There is a 90% chance that the reason those cards are refurbed is because they already failed to softmod and were returned.

Certainly a risk, but your blowing smoke with the 90% probability.

 

[cownipples]

You know for a 107.00 shipped to my door for a 9800 se 128 meg 128 bit card thats palys anything good! I really don't care if ther mod works or not, its for my son's computer! Its a nice budget card for performance, better then any geforce 4 or fx 5800 and below!

 

[jsu]

um not realy... the 256bit performs about as well as the 5800 but beats the gf4's the 128bit i think is around the gf3 ti series.

 

[RadioactiveMagpies]

This card is about even with the geforce 4600 in dx8 games and probably much better in dx9(aquamark 3). Benchmark linky

 

[jsu]

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/over2003/ the only place it pulled ahead of the ti4600 was in unrealII the awakening and rightmark. Durring the rest of the tests it was far below the ti4200. Apparently the 9800se tom is using is 256bit + tom is unreliable http://overclockers.com/tips00549/

 

[cownipples]

thanks for the input i cancelled my order i will wait to get the 256 bit version.

 

[bryantp]

Originally posted by: vcarpio
The card is good. I got the non-refurb, supposedly OEM from NewEgg at 138. It came retail-packaged. A nice big improvement over my GeForce3 TI 200. Best upgrade money I spent to date. (Especially since I'm sunk deep into FarCry...)

I got this card and it MODs fine ... no problems at all in opening all 8 PIPEs

 

[vcarpio]

Originally posted by: bryantp

Originally posted by: vcarpio

The card is good. I got the non-refurb, supposedly OEM from NewEgg at 138. It came retail-packaged. A nice big improvement over my GeForce3 TI 200. Best upgrade money I spent to date. (Especially since I'm sunk deep into FarCry...)

I got this card and it MODs fine ... no problems at all in opening all 8 PIPEs

Wow lucky you! Mine had plenty of artifacts after modding Like, 10 diagonal rows of white-dot-pairs (little eyes) across the screen. At least I got a sneak preview of the 9800Pro's awesome capabilities. Really awesome and well worth the price difference IMO.