Gutspiller
08-08-2002, 01:27 PM
I love old video cards. They don't get fancy flash introductions. Genius programmers never proclaim them as the ideal solution for their upcoming games. Message boards do not light up with rampant speculation on what features will, or will not make it into the final product. When old cards arrive at a reviewer's door, the veil of secrecy has long since lifted and NDAs are no-where to be found.
What they do have is value, and for the vast majority of us that is what really counts. I would like you to join mein having a look at what will surely become known as a classic. The card that put ATI on the enthusiast map, the Radeon 8500 (yes the original Radeon was great too). Until supply dries up, I'll take an 8500 over a 9000.
ATI's RADEON 8500, in all its flavors, while aging, is still viable. Review sites forget the relative age of the elder statesman of video cards when comparing it to the latest from NVidia. Also lost in the translation of video card review benchmark charts, is the fact that an 8500 can be had for a song. Nothing else in the market can compete with today's sub $100 64meg RADEON 8500le.
Rage3d.com (http://www.rage3d.com/articles/8500bios/)
What they do have is value, and for the vast majority of us that is what really counts. I would like you to join mein having a look at what will surely become known as a classic. The card that put ATI on the enthusiast map, the Radeon 8500 (yes the original Radeon was great too). Until supply dries up, I'll take an 8500 over a 9000.
ATI's RADEON 8500, in all its flavors, while aging, is still viable. Review sites forget the relative age of the elder statesman of video cards when comparing it to the latest from NVidia. Also lost in the translation of video card review benchmark charts, is the fact that an 8500 can be had for a song. Nothing else in the market can compete with today's sub $100 64meg RADEON 8500le.
Rage3d.com (http://www.rage3d.com/articles/8500bios/)