What is the oldest Radeon series video card with mounting holes?

greenman100 · Aug 10, 2004

I don't want to have to bust the HSF off my Radeon only to epoxy put a WB on there.

Thanks.

weapon · Aug 10, 2004

seems like they started using mounting holes somewhere around the time they released the 128mb version of the 8500...the 64mb version of the 8500 definitely had an epoxied on HSF.

however, I'm fairly sure they reverted back to their evil epoxied-on HSFs on several cards after that.

squeakygeek · Aug 10, 2004

Why not just check the back of the card?

Seven · Aug 10, 2004

Hmmm, lets see.
I got an Ati Rage 128 pro with an epoxy heatsink, although it does have 2 holes on the side, which is sorta strange.

I'm pretty sure the 7200 doesn't have mounting holes.

I know the 9xxx series has holes (except 9200), so you can think they probably started around 8500 like weapon said.

Guderian · Aug 10, 2004

I know the 9xxx series has holes

My 9600NP has an epoxied HS, but I'll have to check if its got holes when I get home.

Ancient_1 · Aug 10, 2004

To be safe I would say the 9700 series would of been the oldest since I know my 8500 didnt have the mounting holes.

greenman100 · Aug 10, 2004

squeakygeek said:
Why not just check the back of the card?

I checked mine, I want ot know the cheapest I can bolt on

Mine's a 8500LE 128MB

weapon · Aug 10, 2004

there was definitely a 2nd or 3rd run of 128mb 8500s that had the holes in them -- I worked on at least 3 of the bastages but I do not recall if they were LE models or otherwise.

Based on a brief bit of checking i did today, it looks like you will have to look at particular models as there doesn't seem to be a definite point at which they switched all of them over to mounting holes. also, some manufacturers went with mounting holes where others seem to have used non-reference epoxy sinks on some cards that should have had holes instead...

greenman100 · Aug 10, 2004

Guderian · Aug 10, 2004

Saphire 9600 np: Holes, Epoxied HS

dreammmatt · Aug 10, 2004

Radeon 64MB DDR baby! no holes...i remember the epoxy tho... man, do I ever... took a credit card and a screwdriver to pop that sucker off! thought for sure i woulda borked the board... So the conclusion is 'some' 8500's then, eih?

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