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oskool   04-17-2004 at 12:42:44 AM

Which card would be better?

Sapphire Radeon 9800 Atlantis PRO 128MB AGP,ATI9800PRO,DVI-I,TV-Out, Lite-Retail @ £139.99
<A HREF="http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=122901" target="_new">http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=122901</A>

or

PowerColor Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB DDR AGP, ATI 9800PRO, DVI-I, TV-Out, Retail @ £150.00
<A HREF="http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=120304&cks=WOF" target="_new">http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=120304&cks=WOF</A>

I currently have a 1800XP CPU with a Abit KR7A-Raid board with GF3 TI200, but having problems with framerates with the new games. :(

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Vimp   04-17-2004 at 12:58:31 AM
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I'd peronally go with the Sapphire over the PowerColor simply because Sapphire has a better reputation in comparison. And conveniently in this case its cheaper anyways. I believe both have 1 year warrenty. Only possible advantage I see for the PowerColor card is that it probably comes with some games where as the Sapphire one definitly won't.

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oskool   04-17-2004 at 01:36:40 AM
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Thanks, I'm not really worried about extra games.

I’m a little confused though, there is also this version;
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Atlantis PRO 128MB AGP, ATI 9800PRO, DVI, TV-Out, Retail @ £246.75
<A HREF="http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=117449&cks=PRL" target="_new">http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=117449&cks=PRL</A>

Are there more differences other than just the games for almost twice the price?

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oskool   04-17-2004 at 01:37:43 AM
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Is my 1800XP CPU going to stop the card from giving a decent performance?

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Cleeve   04-28-2004 at 05:53:14 PM
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an 1800+ will be OK, but you'll see a notable boost in CPU-intensive games if you get a cheap 2400+ at least.

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