does this look like a built by ati radeon 8500 128mb

[drewthomas14]

its under the powered by ati category but it has bga ram and only s-video, which is what the built by ati one has. also it says color box,which i am assuming means a retail box. can anyone confirm that this is built by ati?

 

[TheFrag]

linkage?

 

[drewthomas14]

http://www.buyaib.com/atirad8512dd.html i knew i forgot sumthing.

 

[SemiCycle]

Yes, do give a link. The card you are describing sounds like a built by ati card, but you can never be sure. A manufacture may have simply switched to bga memory because that was more readily available at the time.

 

[funnyperson1]

avoid buyaib.com their reseller rating is horrendous, i made the mistake of ordering fromt there once and it took 2-3weeks for my order to come in....newegg has a built by ati 8500LE 128 for aroun 100$...that should be better

 

[drewthomas14]

i didnt see one at newegg but ill check. compusa has them but out of stock

 

[SemiCycle]

avoid buyaib.com their reseller rating is horrendous, i made the mistake of ordering fromt there once and it took 2-3weeks for my order to come in....newegg has a built by ati 8500LE 128 for aroun 100$...that should be better

Ditto, don't buy the card from them.

The card looks like a real built by ATI card, but the tag at the top of the page says Powered by ATI. Then in the description, it says built by ati. They seem too confused to me. Heck, it may not even be the real picture of the card they are selling.

 

[drewthomas14]

newegg doesnt have them

 

[funnyperson1]

sorry they had them when i bought my 64mb built by ati, they do have a saphire for 93$ though

 

[Henry Rollins II]

The logo says "powered by". The picture of the card also shows that it doesnt have dual head, I have never seen an 8500 without dual monitor outputs before. Nor does it say GPU or RAM speed.

I think its an LE version.

 

[Hugo 59]

What ever you do I would avoid this reseller they have the worst rating I've seen. Read through some of the reviews.

http://www.resellerratings.com/seller2870.html

 

[Namagomi]

I hate to be a smartass, but the page DOES say

Designed and built by ATI Technologies Inc.

 

[advanR]

check www.googlegear.com if newegg is out. theyre great. just ordered from them and package came in 3 days. they have some of the best prices around.

 

[drewthomas14]

i might get since it is built by ati, and its the regular 8500 not the 8500le and this a cheap price on one.
edit:i have been looking for a while now and cant find a built by ati radeon 8500le or regular 128mb retail card