radeon 8500LE devil monster ii

[klmico]

has anyone tried these cards? what are they clocked at? would it be wiser to pick up one of these for $99 here or pick up a a r8500LE bulk for $99 at newegg? thanks.

 

[Jayczar]

Here is a link to that manufacturers site,
you should be able to find the clock speeds there. I would assume all of the LE
chips would be clocked the same but I am not sure.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Where are they getting the names for these cards? Let's place bets on what they'll call their R300. I'm going with the Satan Spawn LE.

 

[klmico]

their geforce4 line of cards are called bloody monster. anyway, the clock speeds arent listed on their site. but thanks for the help.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

I'd go with the ATI oem. There have been some problems with running ATI's drivers on 3rd party cards, and witht he ATI you'll know the click speeds you're getting. I also saw this in the description for the devil card:
DOES NOT HAVE MEMORY HEAT SINK AS SHO

 

[klmico]

oh i didnt see that "no heatsink as shown." pointless to not go with the ati one then, eh?

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
Where are they getting the names for these cards? Let's place bets on what they'll call their R300. I'm going with the Satan Spawn LE.

super ati vga card le

 

[Freewolf]

They gave it a pretty good review over at hardocp ( the 128 meg model )

 

[Jayczar]

Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
Where are they getting the names for these cards? Let's place bets on what they'll call their R300. I'm going with the Satan Spawn LE.

LOL!!

 

[Rand]

Originally posted by: klmico
oh i didnt see that "no heatsink as shown." pointless to not go with the ati one then, eh?

Neither ATi nor JoyTech's R8500LE has memory heatsinks, and I wouldnt be terribly worried in any case. Conventional DRAM does not tend to get terribly hot relatively speaking, in virtually all cases you'll hit the limits of the DRAM internally before heat becomes even remotely a limiting factor.

The JoyTech card typically comes with 4.0ns Samsung DDR SDRAM, JoyTech's cards are built by ATi so quality of manufacture should be identical.
Their clocked at 250/250 as per the 8500LE specs.

ATi's own model generally comes with 3.3-3.8ns DDR SDRAM.... a pretty wide variance, but you've got a good chance of getting at least 3.6ns DDR RAM.
ATi's tech support and RMA policies are better then JoyTech so I'd probably go with ATi given that their priced equally.

 

[bluemax]

Just try to get a card "MADE BY ATI"
As opposed to "POWERED BY ATI"

The latter uses a different driver set and isn't as good as far as I could tell. (Tried on a Powered-By Radeon 7000.)
Currently using a real ATI Radeon VIVO card, even though I have reason to believe I was sold an engineering sample.
Works great. 😛