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Drac998
10-06-2006, 06:41 PM
anyone have any first hand experience or close to with the Sapphire x1600 series or other cards in the sapphire line?

Slug Toy
10-06-2006, 08:17 PM
well i havent actually gotten to touch an x1600 yet, but i know people who have. its fast for a midrange card, and will play pretty much everything decently. definitely not a top end card though, so dont start getting that image when i say good performance. its just good for the $120 involved.

as for sapphire, i HAVE had experience with them. i had a 9600xt way back when halo was all the rage on pc. performed well, and no issues. cheap too. i think they have a sort of preferred vendor deal going with ati, because they consistently have the cheapest cards, but performance isnt impacted (meaning they arent cheap because they use inferior stuff... they're just cheap). i personally think that sapphire is the only way to go for ati cards, unless another company has a sale or some other edge that makes it worth an extra bit of money.