fun with identifying my R8500!

[LS20]

i think i have an odd card, and , just for the hell of it, i tried to ID it today

the card was bought back around August when AT had a hot deal on the Radeon 8500LE at newegg... there was the 8500LE 64DDR Bulk and 8500LE(le) 64DDR Whitebox... if i remember correctly..both priced similarly. I bought the Bulk because AT said it was superior.

Well, the BIOS has never been flashed but it runs at 250/275 stock unlike other people whose card runs at 250/250 (like a LE should)

The memory is Hynix xxxx-33 --possibly signifying 3.3ns as opposed to the 3.6ns

I went ahead and ID'ed the memory at hynix's website and learned that the "33" signified 300MHZ memory... does this mean it'll do 600 (300x2)?!?


the PartsNumber on the face of the card (with the gpu+fan) is 109-85700-00 indicating its BUILT BY ATI
the sticker on the back has PN10285 71700 054254 and S/N 110204 001093 RADEON 8500 DDR 64M

as seen, the sticker does not indicate that it is a LE card. also, i ran the PN on ati's website and it returned a result of:


Product Description BIOS Part Number 102 Part Number
Radeon 8500 64MB VGA DVI-D TVOUT NTSC PAL 11385709100 1028571700



this does not indicate that it is a LE card either... so what do i really have in my machine?

 

[Lizardman]

Originally posted by: LS20
i think i have an odd card, and , just for the hell of it, i tried to ID it today

the card was bought back around August when AT had a hot deal on the Radeon 8500LE at newegg... there was the 8500LE 64DDR Bulk and 8500LE(le) 64DDR Whitebox... if i remember correctly..both priced similarly. I bought the Bulk because AT said it was superior.

Well, the BIOS has never been flashed but it runs at 250/275 stock unlike other people whose card runs at 250/250 (like a LE should)

The memory is Hynix xxxx-33 --possibly signifying 3.3ns as opposed to the 3.6ns

I went ahead and ID'ed the memory at hynix's website and learned that the "33" signified 300MHZ memory... does this mean it'll do 600 (300x2)?!?


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Yeah the memory can do DDR 600 or run at 300 mhz.

 

[tapir]

there are so many different versions of the R8500 out there its ridiculous (which is why i just got the retail version =p) but yes, 3.3ns memory.. 1000/3.3 = 300MHz * 2 DDR = 600MHz DDR, it wont give you much of a boost over 550MHz stock but since you have the chips, o/c the card with radeonator or powerstrip or someting.

 

[JackBurton]

You have a Radeon 8500LE clocked at 250/275, the same as I have. I flashed the BIOS to 275/275 so it runs at 8500 retail speed. I've even flashed it to 280/300 but I didn't want to push my luck. I'm more worried about pushing the core more so than the memory, because the memory should be very comfortable at 300. I backed it down to 275/275 because at 280/300 I only got me 1FPS more in QIII (1024x768x32 everything maxed). My processor (XP 1600+ @ 1800+) looks to be my bottleneck so there is no need to push the video card to the brink. I have my eye on a nice new 2400+ though. Anyway, I paid $86 for this card and it performs great!

 

[Killrose]

Enjoy it, overclock it to at least Retail speeds. If you get artifacts before it will reach Retail speeds, you might have to Bios flash it to adj. core/mem timmings to the Retail settings. You effectively have 600MHz DDR ram (2x300MHz)

 

[aircooled]

I have the same memory chips on my 8500LE from newegg. I modified the stock BIOS and reflashed the card to 275/275 and it runs flawlessly.

 

[rbV5]

Sounds like the Radeon that doesn't support VGA on the DVI connector that newegg sold the crap out of, not an odd card at all....fast little overclocker that had faster ram (hynix 3.3) than retail and sold for less than $90 US for months. Lots of those gems around.