Sorta hot: Radeon 8500LE for $35, Radeon 9500 for $74

[dameron]

Here you can find the card mentioned. I know it's not the latest and greatest but it's a really decent card that's hard to beat on the ATI line for $35. If you can't find a TI 4200 for $50 then go for this card.


Also, the card I ended buying is a pretty good deal, the Sapphire Radeon 9500 for $74 + shipping: Here.

Also, it looks like it might be soft moddable to open the other 4 pipelines.

-Dameron

 

[Tung]

Is shipping free? I notice that it doesn't have DVI. Might turn off some people in here. Great deal otherwise

 

[edplayer]

anyone know what speeds the gpu and memory are at?

64bit memory bus or 128?

 

[dameron]

It's an underclocked radeon 8500 so whatever the radeon 8500 has. It's about 80%+ as fast in most cases as a Geforce4 Ti4200 and can overclock a bit usually. Hell, you could probably play HL2 reasonably well on this card, prolly far better than on a GF4 MX card.

-dameron

 

[wbresson]

Its probably 350/350, the retail is 375/375, yes it plays HL2 fine at 1024x768 everything on med. at about 40-60fps

 

[divide by zero]

How would that compare to a ATI Radeon 9200SE 64MB DDR 8x AGP Video Card w/TV?

 

[edplayer]

Originally posted by: wbresson
Its probably 350/350, the retail is 375/375, yes it plays HL2 fine at 1024x768 everything on med. at about 40-60fps

An 8500 is 275/275 and the LE's varied

 

[edplayer]

and the regular 8500s have a 128 bit memory bus. Most of the LEs also have them but at least one brand used 64 bit on some of their videocard (I think it is Sapphire)

 

[pxc]

ATI's own 8500LE was 250/250, 128-bit. Some of the cheaper ones were 250/230, 128-bit or 230/230, 128-bit.

That sapphire 8500LE in the OP's link looks like a 64-bit card. It's nothing like any of the full 8500/8500LE reference designs.

 

[Aztech]

Originally posted by: Tung
Is shipping free? I notice that it doesn't have DVI. Might turn off some people in here. Great deal otherwise

Shipping adds $5.00 to Louisiana. Free Ground shipping only applies to selected items, and this ain't one of 'em.

 

[dameron]

That sapphire 8500LE in the OP's link looks like a 64-bit card. It's nothing like any of the full 8500/8500LE reference designs.

I don't think the picture is accurate as the specs on the card mention svideo out and the picture doesn't have an svideo connector. Unfortunately Sapphire's site is less than helpful about this card.

-dameron

 

[mindless1]

Digi-Life has a bunch of Sapphire pics here <-- . However the part numbers on their labels don't match the Allstarshop part # (1024-B168-2).

Upon Googlin' for other Sapphire LE pics I came across a linkback to Sapphire, the closest match I found and it does have the reduced-form PCB, here.

Although, maybe my math is rusty but Sapphire lists specs for that card as 200MHz DDR Mem with 9.6GB/s, which doesn't sound right at all? Seems like it should be 3.2GB/s if 64 bit or 6.4GB/s if 128bit, yes?

 

[dameron]

The most important part of the link mindless1 provided:

Memory Configuration
- 64MB DDR, 128-bit memory.

Hopefully that's accurate and this is the card in question.

-dameron