Best "powered by" 9700?

[tony_j15]

Lookin, to pick up a 9700 soon, gettin harder to find the "built by" so decided to go OEM. Got 3 cards I'm lookin at. One is a FIC A97, Powercolor 9700, Saphire 9700. Thoughts, personal expeirience, all/other considered.

TIA!!

I had 2 flaky FIC via based motherboards, but have since gotten a FIC Radeon IGP board with no problems with it or the integrated graphics.

I have a Sapphire Radeon 8500 that was not underclocked, as many were that were not retail ATI. It runs without issues.

Haven't got a clue about powercolor.

Here's the links to the products, just in case you didn't already have them:

http://www.fica.com/site/html/produc...C_ID=240000599

http://www.sapphiretech.com/vga/9700.asp

http://www.cptech.com.tw/powercolor/...eon9700XR97-C3

[tony_j15]

Haven't got a clue about powercolor.

Me neither. My friend has a Saphire 9500, it runs and OC's well. The FIC definetly takes the bling bling award of the 3. Its the one I'm leaning towards. Thanks for the links!! Hadnt found the powercolor one.

[Jarhead]

Yeah, I've got a PowerColor 9700 non-pro in one of my back up boxes. Although a lot of people don't seem to like PowerColor because (supposedly) the video card BIOS restricts overclocking, I haven't had a problem overclocking mine using Tweak3D. Although it's not currently overclocked, I did test it for awhile running at regular 9700Pro speeds and it didn't seem to have any problems. The fit and construction is actually a little bit more spit and polish than my retail 9700 Pro.

I went with the PC 9700 non-pro mainly because it was the same price as the retail 9500 Pro I was eye-balling. The performance is great for a $200 video card. The price has gone up slightly in recent weeks, but for awhile, it was sub-$200.

[sunxiaol]

I received my new Powercolor 9800 (non-pro) yesterday. IT overclocks pretty decently and so far haven't had any problems, though I'll have to wait and see. I'd say if you're looking to overclock try out the Sapphire, I had a real easy time overclocking my old 9000 PRO. In terms of price, they're all aroudn even I think, with Powercolor giving you a bit more software bundled with the card.

[tony_j15]

Thanks again, everyone. Might be a bit longer, was gettin ready to order and the prices have all gone up.