Radeon LE or Hercules Prophet 4500?

[DravenX]

Well gang what cha all think? Trouble choosing

 

[nemesismk2]

Get which ever is the cheapest although the 4500 will be faster than the LE with most games.

 

[DravenX]

my only reserve is the drivers on the 4500.... are they good or lots of probems?

 

[bunker]

I just replaced my Hercules 4500 with a shiny new GF3, but while I had it (6 months) it ran fine. Never had a problem running in either Win98 or 2k.

 

[nemesismk2]

<< my only reserve is the drivers on the 4500.... are they good or lots of probems? >>



If I'm honest the drivers aren't as good as Nvidia drivers but they are pretty stable and fast. I've never had any problems with them and when I have had a problem it's always been fixed in the next driver release which is usually monthly.

For it's price the 4500 is a good video card but I'd wait for the release of the 4800 which is based on the Kyro 2 SE chip and offers better performance and it will probably be almost as cheap as the older 4500.

 

[Blurry]

It really depends
If you have a slower processor, go with the Radeon LE
If you have a fast processor, go with the 4500 since it will benefit from your faster cpu.
IMO if you have under a 900MHz processor, don't buy the Kyro

 

[KGB1]

I have the Radeon LE... Its pretty Okay, not really works at 4X, ATI barely has support for it except the drivers that come in the OEM box. Hyper Z is disabled, but is enabled through a software program, I forgot the name because I'm not on the Radeon Machine now, but It is overclockable with the same software, but not so stable without ample cooling. So it depends, I personally want to get the Kyro 2 SE Hercules 4800 series once it gets out for a P3 1GHz.

 

[UncleWai]

what do you mean little support?
the newest driver right now is 6052 for xp 6043win2k.
ATI now makes unified driver for all ati cards