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[SFang]

I bought this RADEON 8500 for 76.50 bucks from BestBuy, which has it on sale right now, detail HERE. Absolutely LOVE it, with 1/5 price of the Nvidia G4 4600, it is only 15% slower, and have much better image quality, this is amazing. BTW, it almost beat regularly clocked G4 4600 according to the score from AnandTech Review, which only scored 9814

Latest driver 6071 found HERE

With Windows XP default driver, I only get the scroe 8547. This latest driver rocks, make it 9545 before OC, 9803 after OC!!!

Latest Result after OC my Radeon 8500 to 290/290, which seems much stabler and faster than the default 275/275 settings, already played MOHAA, Commandos II, Unreal, Fallout Tactics, no problem at all.

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3DMark Score 9803 3D marks

Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 149.4 FPS
Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 56.3 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 165.0 FPS
Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 88.9 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 145.1 FPS
Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 64.9 FPS
Game 4 Nature 50.3 FPS

Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 866.7 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 2171.1 MTexels/s

High Polygon Count (1 light) 42.5 MTriangels/s
High Polygon Count (8 lights) 10.2 MTriangels/s

Environment Bump Mapping 117.0 FPS
DOT3 Bump Mapping 93.6 FPS

Vertex Shader 92.7 FPS
Pixel Shader 107.3 FPS
Advanced Pixel Shader 84.8 FPS

Point Sprite 29.8 MSprites/s

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3DMark Score Chipset

11316 115% NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600
10761 110% NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400
9803 100% ATI Radeon 8500
9253 94% ATI Radeon 8500
8880 91% NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 500
8615 88% NVIDIA GeForce3
8128 83% NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200
5642 58% NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra
5172 53% NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/Pro/Ti
4041 41% NVIDIA GeForce DDR
3228 33% NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400

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[TrickyChick]

Nice! I have a Geforce3 and I get in the 6500's. I was thinking of getting a TI4600, but that's way too much money. The Radeon 8500 is a sweet card for the price. I had the opportunity to buy one when I got my Geforce 3, but decided not to do so. Looks like that might have been the better choice. Oh well, it's not like mine sucks, but that definitely rocks.