Those who own Radeon 8500's what is the best driver

[Cisco Kid]

Plan to buy a Radeon 8500 retail LE 128 card this aft what is best driver, I do not want to run into any nightmare if possible, also can I be pointed in direction of the bios flash to run it to 275/275

cisco kid

[Mr. Chambers]

the best driver right now i think is the newest one straight from ATI, the new catalyst drivers.. they are the best ati's produced, very few "nightmares" so to speak..

as for the bios flash i too am trying to track one down, hopefully someone will post a link!

ps. what kind of cooling are you planning on puttin on it? or just leaving it stock? just curious

[Cisco Kid]

Originally posted by Mr. Chambers
the best driver right now i think is the newest one straight from ATI, the new catalyst drivers.. they are the best ati's produced, very few "nightmares" so to speak..

as for the bios flash i too am trying to track one down, hopefully someone will post a link!

ps. what kind of cooling are you planning on puttin on it? or just leaving it stock? just curious

Well I bought a retail Radeon 128 DDR LE card for a sweet deal, the equal or $123 US here in Canada.Thanks for the info, I will look for bios flash as well.

I am just gonna leave the stock cooling for now and flash the bios so I can run 275/275.

Do you know if there is any chance the card will do 275/275 just using powerstrip or rivatuner without flashing. Once I flash I will try to see how high I can go without changing the cooling only cause I do not want to be bothered. I have seen some at 300/300 using stock cooling so if it will do that I will leave it as is.

If I choose a new gpu cooler prolly just get a crystal orb or any other decent cooler that ain't loud.

Cisco

[Yodums]

I am currently using the Omega/Plutonium 1.1.7 which are basically the Catalyst revised for better performance (At least for me). Thinks seem sharper and quality is much better. Erm, has adjustable bars like the Catalyst as well. It scored 200 points in 3dmark over the Catalyst which I was previously using.

Good Luck Cisco.

[Bender]

Yodels beat me to it. I'm using the same Omega Plutonium drivers and they rock! They are based on the catalyst drivers but have been tweaked. Included with the drivers is an overclocking program, an artifact tester and way more features than the standard drivers.

[Cisco Kid]

link at all, alos what are the best settings for the card when benching it and all round gaming, the smoothvision stuff Anit Aliasing and so on, I got no clue about them and gotta take the little one out for his stroller walk so I do not have as much time as some of you

thansk for the feedback

cisco kid

[CSaddict]

The new catalyst driver seam to mess up my Counter strike. I'm gonna try a different driver. GSXR750 country thats funny! I have an 2002 gixer1000 and its retarded.

[Cisco Kid]

Originally posted by CSaddict
The new catalyst driver seam to mess up my Counter strike. I'm gonna try a different driver. GSXR750 country thats funny! I have an 2002 gixer1000 and its retarded.

surely a sweet bike fer sure, my next is a used Hayabusa as I wanna get back to some 2 up riding that I miss but also have the torque and top speed I miss

cisco

I am gonna try the omega drivers

[CSaddict]

I'm gonna try the O drivers too it cant hurt.