I had a memory case like that. There were 2 barcodes and I had no idea which one was the upc code. I just cut them both off and sent them in and it worked. For $10 though it might not be worth the risk of the postage cost.

might try that we'll see how lazy i am, i have another week or two
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A normal person wouldn't say that in real life because it's ridiculous and insulting. Yet here you are spouting the most hateful garbage that your demons can muster out of your darkened soul. All because of the internet.

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what's 115 bucks and better?

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Have you ever actually got the mail-in-rebate? I've spent thousands of dollars at newegg and I've never once received a rebate from any manufacturer. Most of the reviews you will read are people complaining about MIR, and most hardware enthusiast forums use the MIR as a joke. So it's not really $115, unless you're one of the 3% of people that actually get a rebate.

In it's ~$140 price range, give or take $20, there are a few better choices. It's really not a great card for gaming at all. It will run games, but it's not really what he'ss looking for. 9800 GTX+ is essentially a GTS 250, so a 550 TI is pretty much a DX11 side-grade card, not really an upgrade worthy of purchase if you're looking to boost performance.

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Funny I've sent in about 20 mail in rebates from newegg and received them all. If you actually do what the rebate tells you to do you will almost always receive the rebate. I've never heard of anyone in real life not receiving a rebate that they actually sent it in. It just really takes a long time to receive them. Longest I've waited is 4 months but I still received it.

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Bitter from what? I was stating a fact that every rebate I've ever mailed in has been refunded. I have no reason to lie about it.

from what I remember, anything i purchased with a mail in rebate required you to print out the rebate yourself from newegg's website. you didn't receive anything from the manufacturer. the thing with rebates though is that they just hope you're lazy or forget and don't send them in, which i have done.

They usually require the rebate form, a printed invoice with the item purchased for the rebate circled, and the original upc cut out from the box. Usually people online are complaining either b/c they didn't do one of these things or it's only been 4 weeks and the rebate says 9-12 weeks.

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my 9800gtx+ is holding strong still. runs swtor well.

i got a 600W psu
not looking to crossfire, coz my 2nd pcie isnt as fast as the first, i forget the ratio not gonna bother 2 min to look it up.

i dont know why they make so many models of video cards when it seems 1 out of 10 is worth a shit

name off a couple mid-upper cards and models. no highends id rather wipe my ass with cash than overspend needlessly

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Don't let PCI-E bandwidth scare you out of SLI/Xfire. There is no noticeable performance decrease from using x16/x8 or x16/x4 or x8/x8 or x4/x4.

Don't SLI 9800GTX+ now tho. You can get a much better single card today for around the same price as another 9800GTX+ or less.

Tman is right, 6770 is cheap and decent.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102938&Tpk=6770%20flex
That is the best version of that card performance wise.

6870 is slightly better for slightly more (~10 fps difference depending on game)

If I were to buy a card right now, I would get a GTX 560 TI 448 core edition.
It's $290, but it out performs both of the cards listed above by leaps and bounds. You wont have to buy new for a long while.

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got both of my mail-in-rebates, $40 woowoo

i got a question for the guru's here though i imagine its probably a hardware problem;

i have a radeon hd 5870 and its done this since i got it and i never bothered to send it back in; in windows and in 2d apps/games (note only 2d) i get little green 'artifact' sparkles like the card is overheating or whatever. however, soon as i launch a game such as wow, skyrim etc, it runs great and this problem dissapears. and from what i can tell its because in windows the core clocks are set dramatically low for 2d. Also, updating my video card drivers does nothing. Tried a few overclock/clock programs to artificially set the stock clocks higher for 2d, but nothing stays permanent and it just starts doing it again. the clocks are 150/300 on 2d

In my experience ATI drivers suck.

Are you using overdrive? Maybe this will help.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/281111-33-overdrive-underclocks

read most of that, toward the end it links to a forum post for the solution that no longer exists

Sorry I thought they summarized what to do from the link.

well sort of.. im not really understanding.

It's pretty funny that Allstar starts asking questions about video cards while receiving money bomb donations from easily scammed retards. I knew this guy was building a new PC, and this pretty much proves it.

My HD5770 has been running 3 screens for years. It can run Starcraft 2 max settings. It is a great mid-level card. Not too noisey or hot.
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i got a question for the guru's here though i imagine its probably a hardware problem;

i have a radeon hd 5870 and its done this since i got it and i never bothered to send it back in; in windows and in 2d apps/games (note only 2d) i get little green 'artifact' sparkles like the card is overheating or whatever. however, soon as i launch a game such as wow, skyrim etc, it runs great and this problem dissapears. and from what i can tell its because in windows the core clocks are set dramatically low for 2d. Also, updating my video card drivers does nothing. Tried a few overclock/clock programs to artificially set the stock clocks higher for 2d, but nothing stays permanent and it just starts doing it again. the clocks are 150/300 on 2d

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"i once paid alot for a fx5500 and it was absolute garbage...id rather not spend 150ish for no gain or loss".

same thing happened to me.