purchasing sapphire ati cards

[phrozenice]

Im planning to build my own computer and i might use sapphire ati cards. When i head over to my trusty online store, newegg.com, they sell sapphire ati cards such as atlantis in retail boxes but they are however oem. Anyone who has bought sapphire ati oem cards, do they come with manuals? If not where can you find them? Im new to building so i need the manuals that tell you how to set up the video card.

[skeeter]

I bought a Sapphire 9700 PRO oem from Newegg. The manuel was on the CD that came with it. The setup would be the same as for all video cards. Usually newer drivers can be found on chip manufacture's site (Like ATI). I usually download these first then do the install.

[glc]

The retail boxed Sapphire cards come with a printed manual, the OEM models have a manual on the CD.

[phrozenice]

So basically the only difference between the oem and retail versions of the same sapphire video card is that one has the manual printed and the other has it on cd? Are there any other differences?

[Kov-Ice]

You don't get the shiny, new retail box with the oem card...

[skeeter]

The OEM one does not come (usually) with those old games that are usually put in the retail boxes. You do get a driver disc and sometimes another copy of PowerDVD.