Sapphire Radeon 9800pro retail/lite/ultimate?

[ricster]

I am thinking about buying a sapphire radeon 9800pro, but can someone tell me simply what the difference is between the retail, lite, and ultimate versions? and which one would you recommend?
Thanks

 

[JuliusRex]

From the website:

Full retail indicates that the package contains the entire bundle including the Game software bundle and utilities. The Lite retail versions do not come bundled with the software bundle and are packaged with the neccessities needed to enjoy the pinnacle in performance from Sapphire alone.

So it's the packaging that differentiates Retail and Lite. The Ultimate is the "silent" version of the above cards; i.e., heatsink and no fan. There are Lite and Retail versions of the Ultimate cards as well.

If you plan to overclock it, you'd probably do better with a non-Ultimate card.

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[Crashman]

Some of their lite cards use slower RAM, I'd be really carefull about buying one.

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