Originally posted by Skuzzy
Yes Overlag I was speaking about the 256b bus width. That is a 9800Pro, but Sapphire mired the market when they introduced a 128b bus width 9800Pro.
They have recently changed the name of those cards and new boxes are set to go out and replace the current crop of cards marked as 9800Pros.
The memory bus width has to do with fill rate of the video card. The 256b wide 9800Pro has twice the fill rate of the 128b wide non-Pro models.
The 256b wide bus card is still around $180.00 here. The 128b wide card is much cheaper.
memory sizes has nothing to do with the bus width.......
128mb cards range from 100 to 160 UK £
256mb cards range from 180 - 260 UK £
(+ 17.5% vat)
Surely £100 or whatever it is in $ is not too much for a gfx card?????? at least it will get a frame rate in the 60s and not in the low 20s with a crappy 9500/9600
128BIT 9800pro cards are not for sale at the shop im getting these prices from, and yes i heard about them @ xtremesystems etc
Originally posted by United
Buy this one: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=588461&Sku=P450-8503
256MB for under $100. A friend of mine bought one and it works great for him. Seems like a good deal to me! 
how can people recommend cards that are slower than Geforce 4 ti4800?!?!?! or is it still 2002?
2nd edit: ok ok looks like its true, Nvidia cards are cheaper or rather ATI looks more expensive in america....hmm strange
