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Radeon 8500 for $123.50 ( add $27 to get a discount)

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<< i can verify that this card comes in a retail package >>


Good deal!🙂 I ordered yesterday, but if this is retail then I will keep it for myself instead of sending it to Hanpan😀


Shhhhhh....don't tell him I said that though😉
 
wooohooo! Just got mine today. Man what a nice upgrade this card is. And I'm not sure what everyone's beef about ATI's drivers are.
I'm using the newest 9009's with WinME and they work perfect.
I'm replacing my aging 32MB Radeon DDR Retail with this.
Here's why i'm happy 🙂

Athlon XP 1600+
3dMark2001 Default:
Radeon 32MB DDR = 3385 (stock 166/333)
Radeon 8500 DDR = 8088 (stock 275/550)

Thanks Gateway! 😉
 
WTF?! Now they've got free shipping! They had free shipping the day before and the day after I ordered, but not the day that I order?! They are getting a call from me on this. argh.

edit: And now they don't have free shipping anymore 😕
 


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<< Hi, tiger, why do these two rebate request have different address? >>



not sure... but I'd trust the one from EBworld that looks like the real rebate coupon. >>



NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, use the real rebate from EBgames, BUT use the address for NJ!!! MS is switching rebate centers, so if you send it to MD, it won't get processed!!!
 


<< deals dead now. the coupon has expired. >>



-Not totally. There is $30 off $199.

I just ordered the Radeon and a set of ink cartdridges for my C80. All for $170 shipped. Ain't bad at all, especially because it is a retail card.

Thanks,

BiGi
 
shipping was fast too! I ordered the toshiba 16x DVD Drive and radeon 8500 for 189 shiped. Ordered wednesday and dvd arrived friday. Wish I could have gotten both friday. But oh well maybe monday. Anyone have a radeon 8500 previous to this one? Wondering if the board is a different revision, layout, faster memory etc (3.3 mem instead of 3.6).
 
http://www.reactorcritical.com/

Scan down to Feb 19th and see that ATI is reducing the RETAIL price of the 8500 to $169. So while all these deals make it sound like your saving a hundred+ dollars, it's actually $19. So with some shopping you SHOULD be able to find these cards at less than $150 WITHOUT having to jump through rebate hoops.
 
Ummm, there is no rebate on my order. I got a wireless mouse and the 8500 for $159 shipped. Straight up. That's a hell of a deal.
 


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<< i can verify that this card comes in a retail package >>


Good deal!🙂 I ordered yesterday, but if this is retail then I will keep it for myself instead of sending it to Hanpan😀


Shhhhhh....don't tell him I said that though😉 >>



Someones in trouble.

Just wait till I tell a certain someone what you have been doing in Flordia.

😛
 


<< http://www.reactorcritical.com/

Scan down to Feb 19th and see that ATI is reducing the RETAIL price of the 8500 to $169. So while all these deals make it sound like your saving a hundred+ dollars, it's actually $19. So with some shopping you SHOULD be able to find these cards at less than $150 WITHOUT having to jump through rebate hoops. >>



Actually the MSRP is 199.99. You may be able to find it for $160.00 plus shipping but not $130.00 shipped with AoE II
 
And I'm not sure what everyone's beef about ATI's drivers are

-"high-poly" hardware bug
-800x600 TV-out bug
-DVD playback crashes computer bug
-can't do-this-or-that-without-a-particular-driver bug
-ATI hates its customers (not really, they just lied about how they would be more forthcoming iwth drivers this time around) 🙂

I'm a Radeon fan, I loved the card at first, but its quirks kind of got to me after a while. Sold it, preordered a GF4 Ti4400.
 


<< And I'm not sure what everyone's beef about ATI's drivers are

<< -"high-poly" hardware bug >>

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Do you know this to be a hardware problem? The only thing I heard was Carmack mentioning that it could be hardware-based. Then again, there's supposed to be a new ICD in the works that's going to fix it.
 
I've been tracking my packages, Homeworld: Cataclysm has already arrived, the 8500 is coming tomorrow, but I'm not sure what the heck is happening with AOE2. Here's a C&P from the UPS tracking page (the one you get when you go through www.ups.com, not the one you get when you click on the link from necxdirect):

edit: removed horrible html that my browser decided to copy. Very simply, it's been sitting in Tennesee (sp?) since Thursday.

For reference, I live in Minneapolis, MN, so this is no where near me, and it's been like this since Friday. Any ideas as to what's going on here?
 
BigEd, in answer to your question for me personally, I just compared both of them for myself. The 8500 3dmarked at around 6400 and the VisionTek GF3ti200 at around 5400. This is right out of the box on a tbird 1.0ghz using windows xp pro. No overclocking, special cooling, etc. I played a good bit of Return To Castle Wolfenstein and Colin McRae Rally 2.0 on the 8500 and did not see anything wrong with it. Used the s-video output to tv in 800x600 and it seemed to work fine. Of course the text was not crystal clear, but I don't think thats possible with that low of a resolution on a regular tv. Also played part of a DVD on the 8500 and no problems there either. I couldn't see any real difference in playability between the two cards on those games either. Now granted, this was only an 1024x768 resolution as that is as high as my old IBM 21" trinitron goes, so maybe there would be some significant degradation as the resolutions get higher, I can't say from experience. I decided to keep the 8500 for the ability to output to two simultaneous screens, the gf3ti200 couldn't do that. We'll see where things go from here...
 
I got in on this deal with Age of Empires II. However, my copy of the game didn't have the $20 rebate coupon in the box. I called Gateway Accessory Store CS and they referred me to the MS rebate people. According to the MS rebate representative I spoke with, one can apply for the rebate by filling out a 3"x5" card with the usual information (name, address, phone). The MS rep told me to make sure I put promotioin # 497-00-770 on the card as well, and mail in the original UPC, copy of receipt and my home made rebate coupon to the following address:

Age of Empires II Rebate
PO Box 5219
Clifton NJ 07015

Hope this helps those who are in a position similar to myself.
 
Well, now I've got everything in hand: 8500 Retail, AOE2, and HW: Cataclysm 😀 . To continue my last post (AOE2 was in TN), the order tracking now shows it arrive in TN, then the next entry is Delivered. Is UPS using wormholes now? 😕 Anyway, I got everything, so I'm happy. And the 8500 rules for gaming, sure beats my old Voodoo3!

BTW, what's the deal with this AOE2 rebate? Did M$ realize they wouldn't need to pay very many rebates if they don't actually give you the form? Sounds like SOP for M$, doesn't it?
rolleye.gif
Oh well, now I need to find a 3x5 card....
 
The UPS problem:

If you ordered AOEII and the radeon it may say shipped before you get it because they are shipped seperate but the yahoos at gateway put the same ups tracking number in the link for both.
 


<< The UPS problem: If you ordered AOEII and the radeon it may say shipped before you get it because they are shipped seperate but the yahoos at gateway put the same ups tracking number in the link for both. >>


I got 3 unique tracking numbers for my 3 items that I ordered.

IAMME, you're looking at the 8500DV, not the regular 8500.
 
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