More Radeon 8500 base cards

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It seems Hercules is also having problem with nVidia these days. They've "also" decided to make Radeon 8500 base graphic cards.
I think nVidia bacame too big too fast, and now they don't seem as friendly as before to their customers anymore.

 

[PG]

Or maybe Hercules just wants to be more diverse. If they sell cards with Kyro, ATI, or Nvidia chips, then they should have just about any customer's needs and wants covered.

 

[stevens]

I bet just like all the rest of their cards they will be overpriced.

 

[Killrose]

I like the looks of the Gigabyte card myself. I hope Newegg carries it.

 

[vss1980]

Yeah well, before hercules went backrupt a couple of years back they made graphics cards based on pretty much any mainstream graphics chipset.

At one time, they had cards based on S3, nVidia, 3Dfx, and one or two other long forgotten chipset makers.

I am also waiting to see how the Gigabyte Radeon 8500 card appears to perform as in the past Gigabyte have always produced cards with a fair few overclocking features and slightly higher than standard clock-rates.

 

[Rand]

I don't suppose anyone cares to provide a linky as to where they heard Hercules will built Radeon boards?

Personally, I'll be glad if they do. Competition is always good for the consumer.
Besides, I suspect Hercules is on somewhat poor terms with nVidia. nVidia was obviously quite displeased with Hercules manufacturng Kyro boards. And since then many of their nVidia based models have been in rather low supply, the rumour has been voiced many a time that nVidia is "delaying" shipments of GF2/3 chips to hercules and pricing them slightly higher as a means of penializing them for supporting Kyro.

I wish someone would sell an R8500 clone with a clockspeed of 300/300, at least some of the chips are clearly capable of it as ATi markets the FireGL 8800 as being clocked at 300/300.

 

[Killrose]

The 8500 with the 300/300 default will be here very shortly.

 

[Tarmouth]

Rand someone posted a link for the article at THG . If i run accross it ill clip it here .