Open Box 8800gts ?

I'm looking to buy an MSI 8800gts OC 320mb card from newegg, but the problem is that it's an open box item? What are the possible risks involved? Having any less accessory wont hurt me as i can manage without those, but the crucial question is the card's reliability? Is it reliable enough etc?

Agreed. Instead of getting this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 814127328R
MSI open box 8800GTS 320MB $110 counting shipping.

You should look at something like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814121251
Asus "TOP" 9600GSO 384MB $94 counting shipping and rebate.

OR

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814125086

Gigabyte 3870 512MB $100 counting shipping and rebate.

I personally would probably go for the 3870. A bit more ram and a much nicer bundle. I'm not sure how the 9600GSO stacks up to the 3870, I would guess that they are mostly equals, though I suspect the 3870 might be better. (it does a bit better then the 8800GT, and I think the 9600GSO is a little worse then the 8800GT.) Either of the two cards that I linked to should be faster then the 8800GTS 320MB, and they are cheaper/the same price.

It isn't a crappy card remember those days that 8800GTS 320 was the best price/performance card its still a good card for lower resolutions IMO

About a year ago we were all busy recommending the 8800GTS 320, weren't we. It was an excellent card for that time, somewhere in the top 5 for speed and best bang for the buck. Of course, things have changed.

+1 for the HD 3870

yeah i remember it aevm,we recommended the 8800GTS 320 to many who where asking,it was an excellent card for that time(and its excellent still,but because alot of new cards with better price have come out,its hard to recommend it anymore)

This is a much much better deal than any of those mentioned above

http://fxvideocards.com/ZOTAC-GeFo [...] 16280.html

yup its an awesome deal... Dagger had posted the same link a few days ago... and the price then was just $120

well i guess you can call it some sort of apprehension buying ati. Though toms ppl here judged that 3870 and the 9600gt tie their score (there was some tiltin in performance when the AA is enabled or disabled), the 3870 is indeed cheaper by 20 dollars. But i dont know i guess juz the common view that you listen to is that the 9600gt fares a lil better than 3870. and also there was somethign about the 3870's getting obsolete more quickly :S

lol who hates ATI cards? i just said that deal on the 8800GTS 512 that he found is very good

Well, in case you didnt notice 4745454b, i wrote i read that view here on tom's hardware, right here :

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 942-3.html

I think i would have gone for the 3870 a lil while ago too, but the card that you posted, the Asus 3870, that's a lil handicapped bro of it's gddr4 brothers. The bro's btw are juz like $10-20 more than the 9600gt. And as you might read in that link, which i believe you already know, both the 9600gt and the 3870 have some performance difference with regards 2 when AA is enabled, but that difference might b small for one 2 observe. Finally if that ASUS card that you posted wont loose much performance than it's powerful bro's can give, then sure thanks for telling me that, cuz then i'd sure want to get taht 3870......

And yes actually i did review plenty of benchmarks on multiple websites, e.g. here

http://www.techspot.com/article/88 [...] on-hd3870/

I mean honestly if the 9600gt is on average juz 1 percent low on performance that the 3870, then why not buy the 9600 gt if ur getting that for 120 and the 3870 for 135. That was until you posted that ASUS link, the question there one might ask is how much going down from gddr4 to gddr 3 would hurt that card's performance given that it's already sensitive to using the AA.

wooops, meant gigabyte 3870 and not ASUS as i've been posting.......

Well the problem is that i have to order it today. About that zotac 8800gts, yes it's an awesome deal, as similar MSI cards are going at 180, but the problem is that i'm ordering from outside US, and one of my friend's gonna bring the card with him. So not sure about getting a zotac. Yeah the 9800gtx is juz an OC brother of 8800gts g92

Newegg .....

and guess what, that 8800gts zotac is now for 120 again as it was a couple of days ago at that fxvideocards store.... this juz keeps getting confusing

hell no, why would u even think that I'm shippin it to my friend in US and he's gonna bring it along

Nooo the problem's not getting it from fxvideocards, as i said before the problem is getting a zotac not sure about it

yeah, had never heard of zotacs before juz like never heard of a galaxy .....