3rd party Radeon 7500 question

[chansen]

Went to buy a DVI-out card, and came out with a Forsa Radeon 7500 DDR with DVI and analog and TV-out card for $150 CAD. Their ATI-made acrds were sold out.

The Samsung RAM on my card says K4S641632F-TC60. From the Samsung site, this is 60ns, 166MHz SDRAM.

Not only is it slow, it's not even DDR.

It says DDR right on the box.

Am I right to take it back, or am I missing something?

Craig

 

[Kingofcomputer]

there are some 3rd party radeon ve/7000 core cards naming as Radeon (something) 7500 (something).
don't be fooled by the numbers.

 

[Wolfsraider]

false advertising yep i would take it back

 

[tenoc]

Take it back, spend the extra 50 loonies for a real one.

 

[rbV5]

Forsa makes both a SDR and a DDR Radeon 7500, probably just a packaging mistake, the vendor should have no problem switching for the proper board.



<< there are some 3rd party radeon ve/7000 core cards naming as Radeon (something) 7500 (something). >>



Really? Link?

 

[chansen]

What it actually says is: "64MB DDR Memory Configuration"

They said they will take it back for store credit.

Thanks for the insight.

Craig

 

[rbV5]

I would imagine that you aren't the only one that got a SDR 7500 in a DDR 7500 box, nice catch.

 

[Kingofcomputer]

actually, it's 7200 sdr overclocked, so named as 7500.

RADEON 7500LE SDR Edition (EVIL KNIGHT) from Powercolor.
http://61.59.36.233/web/product_inside.asp?prd_id=RV2SL-B3