My visiontek geforce 3 card just died. I have a radeon 8500, should i just use that?

[vizionblind]

I will have to go through the whole rma process, and im not sure how visiontek is. I have a radeon 8500 in another machine, is that card ok for gaming?

 

[GT578]

no, it sucks...don't use it. 😀

 

[vizionblind]

care to back that up?

 

[anime]

it's a sarcastic remark--dont you get it? because this question sounded like almost like Joke.
If you frequent this board--you should know better than to ask " I have a radeon 8500........ is that card ok for gaming?"
BUt to answer your question--Yes radeon 8500 is more than OK for gaming.

 

[Rand]

<< care to back that up? >>



No it's a horrible card!
It only has the best DVD acceleration of any card on the market, a very good dual head implementation, the best FSAA next to the V5, and excptionally good 2D visual quality, and it's only marginally slower then the GF3 Ti500 as the fastest gaming card on the planet. It's also shown itself to be very overclockable.

Totally unsuitable to gaming 😉

 

[stevens]

Is this a serious question? I would have taken out the gf3 before it died and put in the radeon.

 

[Rand]

I still say it's totally incapable for gaming... imagine, the most well rounded card on the market and only slightly slower then the GF3 Ti500 as the fastest graphics card available... definitely not capable of gaming! 😀

 

[FiveDoubleO]

i heard the Radeon 8500 is a card that started the Cuban missle crisis... way back when

 

[chizow]

The Radeon 8500 is only good at playing 1 game: 3dmark2001. Since thats the only game I ever play, that should answer your question!!! 😉

Chiz

 

[OverDose]

RMA with Visiontek was very irritating for me, they ended up taking so long and screwing up so much they swapped my 32mb mx200 for a DDR GTS 32mb card, oh well good luck, you could always send it to me and i'll deal with visiontek 🙂

 

[BFG10K]

Ask yourself one question: are you in the habit of forgetting about hardware and moving onto something else if it dies while under warranty?

If not, you know exactly what to do.

 

[spanky]

dude, r u kidding me? how u gonna come here and ask if the radeon8500 is any good for gaming. look at any review and u will see it a nose behind the gf3 ti500 in most benchmarks. but then again, i would suppose it depends on which games u play.