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-=HN=- Wild9
02-06-02, 10:27 PM
Well looks like ATI is coming out with a Radeon 8500 with 128megs of DDR. check it out (http://www.ati.com/na/pages/products/pc/radeon8500128/index.html)

Yodums
02-06-02, 10:41 PM
Wow!

Funny avatar :)

]-[itman
02-06-02, 10:46 PM
It looks like an awesome card for the price! But i think you should check out my thread here (http://forums.overclockers.ws/vb/showthread.php?threadid=64716) before thinking it's the next generation card =\ From what it looks like (to me anyways) is that they new the GF4 card was coming so they put out whatever they had at the time(not a new card but the same card with 128mb RAM instead)

Lou Natic
02-07-02, 01:17 AM
What good is a 128mb vidcard with crappy drivers?

Wega!
02-07-02, 01:26 AM
Originally posted by Lou Natic
What good is a 128mb vidcard with crappy drivers?

ATI's drivers ain't so crappy any longer. Try the newest drivers, they are actually very good, IMHO.

]-[itman
02-07-02, 07:10 AM
Ya ATI's finally releasing good drivers. They are even starting to leak beta drivers for people to play with :)

Cypher720
02-07-02, 07:34 AM
i just got an 8500 64MB, but maybe ill try the 128 for fun!

Pinky
02-07-02, 08:06 AM
Originally posted by -=HN=- Wild9
Well looks like ATI is coming out with a Radeon 8500 with 128megs of DDR. check it out (http://www.ati.com/na/pages/products/pc/radeon8500128/index.html)

Wow!! More unneeded horsepower!!

Captain Slug
02-07-02, 09:34 AM
Nobody will be able to see any kind of performace advantage between a 64MB and 128MB video card. Current games just don't eat THAT much throughput and won't for another 4 years.