Sapphire? Does it make any difference?

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I have been looking online for a good deal on the Radeon 9800 Pro, but I have also ran into many "Sapphire" video cards.

A friend told me that Sapphire is not as good as an ATI made version, so is this true?

Or is Sapphire just as good?
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I am confused! :p
 
Well, kinda. Here's how it works. ATI sells their chips to other companies such as Sapphire, Asus, MSI, etc.... So then those companies go and make basically the same card as ATI. I would just stick with ATI, but it's up to you. They are more or less the EXACT same thing.
 
I wouldn't usually take "Home Made Card" i would usually Take from firms like ASUS that give 3 years warranty and usually they are cooler hehe i mean not cold but as in more cool stuff Video In Video Out and stuff ;)
 
Sapphire make excellent cards;)

And as a side note, ATi sell their own cards under their own name aswell as to vendors, but Nvidia don't they sell only to vendors such as ASUS, MSI and PNY;)
 
i have a sapphire card and my friend has an ati card. Its the same thing we play the same games and it comes out the same.
 
CameraMan said:
i have a sapphire card and my friend has an ati card. Its the same thing we play the same games and it comes out the same.

Yeah, your basicly just getting a better Heatsink/fan, a different color PCB and usually free gaming bundles. The 9800 Pro in my avatar is a Hercules;)
 
Oh :p

Hey Merlin, is that the actual card that you own?

That thing looks AWESOME! (My regular ATI made 9600 XT looks too plain, sniff sniff)
 
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