ATI Radeon 9800XT replacement question

[alienuser09]

As it appears mine is failing, I'm looking to replace my old ATI Radeon 9800XT graphics card with same product (just trying to keep this old computer going/gaming till I can finally get a new system). I've found several "new" Radeon 9800XT cards for sale at reasonable prices, but they're not made by ATI/AMD. Apparently they ARE made with ATI/AMD chips and GPU's. Can anyone please advise as to whether these cards are comparable to the original product? I was hoping to just be able to swap out the card and not have to deal with driver uninstall/reinstalls. Is this possible with these 3rd party ATI cards or do they use different drivers/software?

Any advice is appreciated!

 

[Mizzou]

If the brand of the replacement card is Diamond or Sapphire it's basically the same thing, think there were a few others. If it's a reference design then your existing drivers should work, really need to know the exact brand to be sure.

 

[yRaz]

I guess since the drivers are already in place it wouldn't hurt to try.

 

[klepto12]

why not just uninstall the drivers and reinstall them with the new card not like its hard or anything takes less than 2 minutes to do.

 

[alienuser09]

An update:

Purchased a replacement ATI Radeon 9800XT 256MB - this one was manufactured by Systems Intl Business Corp.

Did have to uninstall/reinstall the Catalyst drivers, but used the same exact driver suite (which is a good thing since the installation CD that came with the card was defective).

Odd thing about the install - there was NO power connector on the new card. This had me scratching my head a bit, but apparently it gets ALL its power via the AGP slot.

New card is operational and seems to be working fine.