My Radeon 8500

[upsciLLion]

I ordered a Radeon 8500 LE 128 MB vid card from Newegg.com. Unfortunately it's stock clocking is 250/200 core and mem respectively. I can get it up to 300/240 no problem. I spent $119 on it shipped. Did I get a very good deal? The card performs well enough I guess, but would it have been better to get a 64 meg model that has RAM that's more overclockable? I think the RAM it has now is 5 ns Hynix crap. It kinda makes me mad. I've tried flashing the BIOS like some have suggested, but that just makes the screen all garbled, so I just switch it back (good thing I backed up my old bios and know how to write flashing commands into autoexec.bat, eh?). Tell me what you people think. I already emailed Newegg about returning the card (since it's advertised as 250/230) or getting a different one. I'm kind of flustered about this whole thing. I was hoping for the 3.6 or even 4 ns RAM.

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[MrDudeMan]

ummmm are you sure it was 200 mem? i dont think they ever clocked an 8500 that low...

 

[upsciLLion]

Yeah, I'm sure the memory's at 200. I'm too poor to have good luck.

Screen shot from Radeon Clocking Utility from Omega/Plutonium

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[spanky]

just get it swapped. maybe they'll send u a free t-shirt for ur troubles.

 

[MiExStacY]

i've read at rage3d that some le are clocked at 175 even

 

[upsciLLion]

"i've read at rage3d that some le are clocked at 175 even"

Holy crud. Might as well sell it as a regular Radeon 32 MB DDR. :frown:

 

[MrDudeMan]

well, this is why you dont get the LE version...

my radeon 8500 came clocked at 300/275 and OCs to 319/325 (core/mem)

and it was only 40 dollars more for the 128mb version that i purchased...

 

[rApiDShoT]

Don't worry about the speed too much cause sometimes it's the chip that counts.

For example Geforce 3 beats a Geforce 4 in many ways..

Geforce 3 is @ 175/200

Geforce 4 MX440 is at 275/200

 

[Killrose]

5ns ram? LOL!!, I did'nt know they even made it any more. what a waste of silicon.

 

[toadstool]

Well, if I got a card that was different than advertised, I'd return the one they gave me. From what I've heard , Newegg is a good company, so hopefully they'll exchange it.


I DO have to agree with "Mr DudeMan". DON'T by an LE. I bought one back in January (refurbished too), and it only runs stable at 230/230.

You DO get what you pay for.

 

[colonel]

I got the RAdeon 8500LE 64 with the 3.3ns Hinyx, I was able to OC this card with the pencil mod and I got 290/310 with the new BETA drivers 9050 i got 9145 in 3dmarks. Great card but it need a lot cooling...

 

[ceZium]

I also cannot believe that they would still use 5ns ram chips, that is ridiculous.

 

[MrDudeMan]

oops

 

[upsciLLion]

I emailed them, and the next day they called me and offered a replacement or a refund. I took the refund and as soon as my checking account is credited the money, hello GeForce 4 Ti 4200. Newegg's one helluva company.

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[rbV5]

My AIW 7500 came with 5ns hynix memory. The bulk oem 8500le's were shipping with 3.3 hynix ram for $95 from Newegg, awesome deal. Check at Rage3D next time before you buy a Radeon from Newegg to get an idea of what is shipping.