RAdeon 8500le

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hanleychan

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I want to buy the radeon 8500le. i heard some ppl say not to buy some types of them on this forum. Is this a good buy?


http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=469516&Sku=TC1-7016

or should I get the 9100. its the exact same price

thank you

 

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http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=529483&sku=TC3G-1003

this link for the 9100

thanks again

 

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• Jun 24, 2003

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8500LE is a good card if you get the right make, look for a default clk/mem speed of 250/250, then apply the bios flash of 7006 or 7008 to it and voila you will have a regular 275/275 8500 provided the ram on the card is of decent quality.

The BBA 8500 LE like the one I had in 128 ddr flavour came with 3.6 Hynix BGA ram and mine would overclock to 310/306 (612) and scored over 10K in 3DMarkSE01

If ya can get it for cheap it is as good as the 9100, the 9100 ,ay have a couple extra features but I would buy the cheaper personally

cisco kid

 

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This is a better 8500, it's new and it's from a company/reseller that I trust highly. Great Customer Service. And it has 3.3 Hynix RAM clocked at 275/299

eBay

 

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I have a 128 mb built by ati 8500 LE. it performs great imo. Im not sure how to go about the bios flash though, to this date i just use rage tweak to get it to standard 8500 speed. mine wont go much higher than 285 before it crashes though but its a 10k card easy in 2001. I get 11651 out of mine.

 

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hanleychan

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I just got the 9100 thakns for help

 

funnyperson1

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The 9100 can come clocked like that as well. Right now I think the safest bet are the visiontek 9100s which claim to be 250/250 and are appropraitely priced at compusa 80$ for the 64mb last I saw

 

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the card says

memory: 128mb ddr sdram
core clock: 250mhz
memory clock: 480mhz

 

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• Jun 25, 2003

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so it's clocked at 250/240. i dunno about the 9100's. i do however think that an 8500 @ 275/275 would be a better performer.

good luck with it.

J.

 

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hanleychan

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thanks. Can't wait till it comes in the mail.

 

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Edit: nevermind.