Choosing a Card...

Hi, I,ve searched around a lot on the net and this is probaly the best best forum to get my answer.

I am looking at a Sapphire 9600XT 128MB Ultimate Edition and a Regular ATi 9600XT.

These cards look the same and everything. But its jsut the price that changes a lot of stuff.

So what I want to is, whice one do you recommend me getting.
(Money is not a factor)

Thanks.

 

Well Ultimate Edition has that cool ( pardon the pun ) heatpipe thingy. I didn't notice anything different in the clock speeds & such.

 

Heat pipe w/o fan tends to run alot hotter at stock speeds but overclock slightly better by 1-5mhz.

 

Yes I meant to mention that. I used to have a Zalman Heatpipe on this Ti4200 & it worked just fine, but you do need to have adequate ventilation throughout the case.

 

If money is no factor, why dont you get a X800?

 

well obviously you can see that when i mention only the 9600xt version that money around that range but thanks for all the info.

But i been thinking and i think that if its built by ati themselves u can trusat it more. Its just my opinion what you guys think?