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With the new ATI R520 cards coming out next week, I thought I’d try and take advantage of the older ATI card sell offs. Unfortunately I haven’t been so lucky trying to find an X850 XT at a sub $300 price lately. That is, until tonight when I received a Fatwallet topic alert about the X800 GTO2 which if you’re not familiar, is basically an X850 XT PE in disguise. The card is being sold at NewEgg and ChiefValue (NewEggs subsidiary company) for $199 with $4.99 shipping.

W1zzard over at TechPowerUp discovered that the Sapphire X800GTO2 actually has a 480 core (the same one that the X850/XT/PE uses). He also noticed that it comes with 16 pipelines, 4 of which can easily be unlocked with a simple bios upgrade.

With the 100% proven success rate of the mod and with the price being so cheap I had to jump on it.

If you’re interested you can find more details below:

Fatwallet link to deal
W1zzard’s explanation of mod at TechPowerUp
TechPowerUp forum thread with users sucess stories

Welp, last week it was the Canon SD400, this week its a new amplifier for the car, and today after having my cell phone broken since April I finally broke down and bought a Treo 650 SmartPhone. A buddy at work Charlie Smith has this phone and after seeing what he was doing with it I was sold. I was convinced I wasn’t going to pay $599 so I wheeled a deal with the sprint folks and got it for $299 having signed a 2 year SprintPCS agreement. Not bad but still more then I really wanted to pay for a cell phone :(.

Back in January when I visited Vegas for CES2005 I eyed Canon’s new 5MP elph camera named the “SD400“. Well today I finally broke down and bought it! I received a topic alert email from Fatwallet about a super deal on the SD400. It basically boiled down to this:

1.) Click here to be taken to the office depot SD400 link. Add it to your cart

2.) Goto checkout and use coupon 17591880 ($30 off of $150)

3.) Before you submit the order sign up for Office Depot Advantage to receive an additional $20 off.

To summarize: $279.99 - $30 off coupon - $20 (advantage card) = $229 + tax.. There was also free shipping. Regular price is $449.

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After hearing some good things at work about the LR Nelson “RainTrain” traveling sprinkler I ended up purchasing it at Amazon. Believe it or not it was cheaper there then Lowes and Home Depot and with free shipping none the less. This should be some good entertainment for the front yard

Maybe a price mistake but give it a try! HP f1905 19″ LCD monitor $110 AR at HPshopping.com

16ms response time
Has DVI also!

$10 off code: SV7222

$25 off $250 code: SV1322

Shipping is around $15