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Crucial launches ATi 8500 LE video card...wha!!??

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***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***

CRUCIAL TECHNOLOGY LAUNCHES FIRST CRUCIAL BRAND VIDEO CARD
Online memory leader offers Crucial(R) Radeon(TM) video card with
high-quality Micron(R) DDR memory


Meridian, Idaho, July 29, 2002 - Crucial Technology, a division of
Micron and one of the world's largest direct memory upgrade
providers, introduced today the Crucial(R) Radeon(TM) 8500LE 128MB video
card powered by ATi and featuring Micron(R) double data rate (DDR)
synchronous DRAM (SDRAM).

"Crucial has a long-standing reputation for providing quality
products that enhance system performance," said Crucial Technology
General Manager Mike Bokan. "Our new video card features Micron
DDR, giving our customers another great way to benefit from direct
access to our high-quality memory and superior service and support."

"Installing a new video card is easy and it's the ideal method, in
addition to adding more RAM, to get your computer ready for the
latest graphic-intensive software," said Crucial Technology Technical
Support Manager Mike Sanor. "In particular, gamers and those who
use software for manipulating digital images or video will enjoy
smoother and more realistic graphics with the new Crucial Radeon
8500LE video card."

The Crucial Radeon 8500LE video card features 128MB of high-quality
Micron DDR SDRAM, 400-MHz RAMDAC, DVI-out, dual-display capability,
and a six-foot S-video cable, allowing the video card to connect
to a S-video-compatible television display. The video card is
available on Crucial's Web site at www.crucial.com and is currently
priced at US$134.99. The Crucial video card comes with a limited
lifetime warranty, free second-day shipping within the contiguous
US (for a limited time), and Crucial's renowned customer service
and technical support.

Crucial Technology is a division of Micron Semiconductor Products,
Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Micron Technology, Inc.
Crucial sells high-quality RAM upgrades, flash memory cards, and
video cards on its Web site at http://www.crucial.com. Crucial
offers over 94,000 upgrades for more than 15,000 desktops,
notebooks, servers, routers, printers, and electronic devices.

Micron Technology, Inc., and its subsidiaries manufacture and market
DRAMs, very fast SRAMs, Flash Memory, other semiconductor components
and memory modules. Micron's common stock is traded on the New
York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the MU symbol. To learn more about
Micron Technology, Inc., visit its Web site at www.micron.com.

# # #

Micron, Crucial, and Crucial Technology are registered trademarks
of Micron Technology, Inc. Radeon is a trademark of ATi, Inc., and
is licensed for use by Crucial. All other trademarks referenced
herein are the property of their respective owners.
 
There are a lot of OEMs partnering with ATI on 8500 based cards right now, most of them consider
it the "right time" to get in specifically because ATI is showing strong legacy support in the way
they have handled the Radeon 9xxx launch. It is also cheaper for an new entrant like Crucial to
base their card on the more widely available 8500 chips.

What boggles the mind, along with the idea that Crucial is getting into Video Cards, is the fact
that IIRC, ATI cards have been built with Samsung DDR up until now.

Does anyone know if/how much any other video cards were being built with Micron RAM prior to this?
If not, this could also be a bid by Micron to become an outsourcer for Video RAM to other card makers.
And possibly a partnership with ATI to provide them with an additional souce of fast DDR chips.


 
I was just about to post about this but it looks like some postaholic beat me to it! 😉

It's already on their website and if you go through the "usergroups" link you can get it for $127.49 shipped!

The description here seems a little ambiguous though...

Connector: 15-pin VGA connector and S-Video
API support: 15-pin VGA, DVI-D, and S-video
AND the picture shows all three connectors on it.

The lifetime warranty is cool! I wonder if it comes with the cables and adapters too. Just curious, I'm not planning on picking one up. 🙂

Edited -- bad wording
 
AFAIK, Crucial sometimes gets Samsung chips to use on it's own PCB's. I'm assuming, that it could be for many reasons, but only two seem most reasonable. 1) Cost, maybe it's cheaper to acquire Korean memory, and 2) Demand, if Crucial cannot keep up with current market demands. Quite a few of their 256 and 512 MB DDR sticks have come equipped with Samsung memory in the past. I have no clue how they stack up to Micron on Micron, but I'd assume it would be OK. 🙂 Don't worry, Samsung and Crucial have a very understanding relationship. 😉 . . . or so it seems.
 
saw this over at DH.net a couple mins ago... absolutely pathetic... i hate crucial ram and their video will prolly be fan-didly-tastic as well :|
 
$127.49 - ebates = $123.66 w/ free 2day shipping and possibly tax for 128mb 8500 (250 clocks, however will more than likely clock to 275/275 fine) and crucial lifetime warranty / great support is an excellent deal.
 
Originally posted by: franguinho
saw this over at DH.net a couple mins ago... absolutely pathetic... i hate crucial ram and their video will prolly be fan-didly-tastic as well :|
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You're the first person I've ever seen to complain about Crucial RAM. Love the stuff..overclocks like crazy..
 
I love their "experts" online


Conrad>Technical Support dept at 1-800-336-8896
Conrad>Let me direct you to a phone number:
Casey>where are you getting this info? that's wrong..DDR 2100 runs at 133mhz, and it's double, so 266. For video cards, it's 250 x2 = 500 Mhz..
Conrad>The data transfer is at 250 because it transfers twice the data at the same speed (133)
Casey>unless it's overclocked?
Casey>it can't be the same..then it would only be 133mhz, not 250..
Conrad>the same
Casey>i'm wondering what ns the micron modules are..
Casey>ddr 2100 is rated at 7ns..that's 133mhz
Conrad>DDR 2100 memory (Micron)
Casey>can you tell me what kind of memory it uses, or what it is rated for?
Conrad>clock is 250
Casey>ok, thanks
Conrad>DDR 2100 memory. checking on clock speed.
Casey>ok cool..about the video card..most radeon 8500's have different clock speeds.. retail 275/275 and LE 250/250..what is the crucial, and can you tell me what speed memory it has?

i'm casey..
 
I wonder how this baby will overclock.🙂

Hopefully this is just the begining with crucial, hopefully we will see a 9700
 
crucial are bunch of resellers of micron, just dealers, and expensive though, the placebo effect is their game and in the same time that is the basis of the american society
 
Imagine if they made a Ti4200.:Q It would be the card to have no matter what your price range is.😱
 
The Offical speeds are 6ns(166mhz/333mhz)


Here's why..

We're entering the video card market by offering a high-quality and
economical solution for mainstream computer users who want to improve the
performance and extend the life of existing computer systems. We are not
trying to offer a niche product that's the most cutting-edge available,
rather, just as we've helped customers improve system performance by adding
RAM, we're offering another way to improve performance of their existing
computers without buying an entirely new system. As with all memory sold at
Crucial, the RAM in our video cards is of the highest quality and meets all
industry and manufacturer specifications.
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Understandable..you can't beat crucial support and warranty, and who want's to send a dead card to canada(beside canadians?)

Other selling points..

o Guaranteed high quality
o Superior service and support
o Limited lifetime warranty
o More memory --128MB high-quality Micron DDR
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The Crucial Radeon 8500LE 128MB video card is an excellent and economical
solution for mainstream computer users looking to improve the performance
and extend the life of existing computer systems. Our video card can speed
up processing time when working with complex images that are full of color
and texture. You'll notice faster photo editing, graphic and CAD design, as
well as improved performance with home computer games.
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I would probably use these in systems I build, mainly because of their support and warranty, but also because the 8500 has some great features..and at $125 it's less than all TI4200's, with basically 5% performance difference(and hopefully less with upcoming catalyst drivers) plus, all Ti4200's you would buy probably don't have customer service like crucial's(again.)

Now if they could just come out with a 9700 card..
 
Originally posted by: Gomce
crucial are bunch of resellers of micron, just dealers, and expensive though, the placebo effect is their game and in the same time that is the basis of the american society
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WTH are you even talking about? First off, Crucial is a division of Micron, they are not resellers. Second, they have frequent coupons which make their prices very competetive. Third, WTH does placebo have to do with anything?
 
Expanding on my post a bit, the more I think about it, the more I think Crucial is going to try for the ultra high-end market that Asus currently enjoys. Mainly, the "it costs more, but damn is it fast/feature filled" market to which Asus sells it Deluxe line. With Nvidia providing all the board designs, all Crucial has to do is make a board, slap some of their RAM on it, and put it for sale. Assuming they can make high-end RAM for cards like they can sticks for PC's, they could probably meet Asus on price and features, but beat it on performance. This is of course assuming they go with Nvidia; ATI controls their products a bit more, meaning Crucial might have a hard time seperating themselves from ATI, let alone any other vendors.
 
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