*Deal Over* Radeon 8500LE 128MB DDR (built by ATI) - $99.99 (no MIR, PM) at B&M CUSA

[apoppin]

In CompUSA's latest flyer (ends 10/05/02). $149.99 - $50 (INSTANT savings) = $99.99.

Good deal!

I'm surprised this hasn't been posted before (I hope; I searched).

 

[Johnbear007]

I haven't seen it yet. This is great! I'm going to have to grab one of these...

Looks like you can also order these online

Also, any cooling suggestions? will stock cooling be ok for overclocking this card? or should we get some arctic silver 2 adhesive and put on an orb or something? if so how much would that run?

thanks for the deal apopin!

 

[apoppin]

It ALREADY started yesterday (Sun 9/29) . . . you have till the 5th of Oct.

No idea about PM'ing . . . CUSA doesn't have coupons and I haven't checked online (I already got an 8500 "retail", not LE from CUSA 3 weeks ago).

"General" has cooling suggestions . . . try a "search". You should be easily able to go from the LE's stock 250/250 to retail 275/275 speed easily. Some LEs even make it to 300/300 (where my "retail" 128 is at).

 

[gdawson6]

are the LE's clocked at 250/250? ive had 3 radeon 8500le's 64mb that all worked fine when flashed to the retail speeds, hoping the 128mbs are the same. I just ordered a 128mb le for 80$ from newegg refurbed else i would jump on this deal.

 

[cherrytwist]

Ugh I wish I'd seen this before ordering mine from Newegg on Saturday :\

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: gdawson6
are the LE's clocked at 250/250? ive had 3 radeon 8500le's 64mb that all worked fine when flashed to the retail speeds, hoping the 128mbs are the same. I just ordered a 128mb le for 80$ from newegg refurbed else i would jump on this deal.

you have to flash the BIOS on these to OC them? Does flashing it, just tell the card then, that it is retail and not LE?

 

[WarSong]

very nice deal! my radeon 8500le 128 does 300/300 with the stock bios.

 

[apoppin]

No need to flash anything. Simply d/l the ATI "Tweak" program from Rage 3D and O/C your card as far as it will safetly go. It integrates nicely with the ATI utilities.

You can find the utility link from the CPU/Overclocking Forum "sticky" thread on the top.

Radeon Tweaker (link for the lazy)

 

[TJ22]

I have the 8500 64mb retail what kind of performance increase would i see? In what area?

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: TJ22
I have the 8500 64mb retail what kind of performance increase would i see? In what area?

You might not see much change in current games, but for nex gen games like doom 3 128MB is going to be essential. If I were you, I would keep what Ihave for now, and upgrade after XMAS when NV30 hits and all the prices drop. At that point it triy to pick up a 128MB GEFORCE 4TI4600 or radeon 9700 pro if they drop enough.

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: apoppin
No need to flash anything. Simply d/l the ATI "Tweak" program from Rage 3D and O/C your card as far as it will safetly go. It integrates nicely with the ATI utilities.

You can find the utility link from the CPU/Overclocking Forum "sticky" thread on the top.

Radeon Tweaker (link for the lazy)

So what is all this that people are talking about flashing?

 

[Cyiode]

Does this card support ATI's HD-TV dongle, for displaying on an HDTV?

 

[1313]

I have an ATI 8500LE 128MB on a Gigabyte 7VRXP v2.0 with AMD 1600 XP overclocked to a 2100 XP [ locked 105 x167 Mhz FSB ]

I run the ATI 8500LE at 292.5/ 292.5 Mhz with Rage Tweak 3D 3.3.

Great little card, IMHO.

Good looking graphics, good game performance'

10280-10440 scores on 3DMark 2001 build 330.
185 score PCpitstop.com

Very good TV DVD playback with ATI Hydravision.

Outputs are VGA and S Video with an S Video to composite video RCA adapter plug [included] No DVI output.

Games include are Half Life [Counter Strike/ Team Fortess Classic/ Half Life Uplink]

 

[chibchakan]

Link

 

[nickmarine]

Great Deal

I went to CC and showed them the ad, they gave me 2 for $95 each, one from the store I was at (last one) and the only other one for the next nearest store

Very nice addition for my systems

Nick

 

[dsd17]

What would you suggest? ti4200 or 8500le? The 4200 I was looking at is the 64mb version. I'd like a really nice graphics card for web design(flash) and photoshop. Not too much gaming but I still need something solid and very nice eyecandy. Any help is appreciated.

 

[kliza23]

Looks like a good deal, thanks!

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: dsd17
What would you suggest? ti4200 or 8500le? The 4200 I was looking at is the 64mb version. I'd like a really nice graphics card for web design(flash) and photoshop. Not too much gaming but I still need something solid and very nice eyecandy. Any help is appreciated.

They are more or less equivalent cards. 128MB over 64MB is a possible future advantage for high texture games. Also, the 8500 might give you nicer 2D.

 

[Lucky]

this does dual monitor? says only VGA connector.

 

[SgtZulu]

no DVI connection just turned this deal cold

 

[spanky]

nice

 

[bockchow]

i don't use dvi so this is a good deal to me. hope it's still up on payday.

 

[movinslow]

So tempting...

I've got a savage4...

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[unclebud]

"no DVI connection just turned this deal cold"
thought that was why this is called an LE...

 

[Johnbear007]

I dont care about DVI.. thats only for LCD right? I dont like gaming on the LCD