Mucking around with a Radeon 8500 64 meg

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Bought one used a while back. Had big problems with it. Finally decided to
try flashing the bios. Figued the card was junk anyway, so what the heck.

Now it seems to work pretty good. Played Deus Ex on it and it look nice.
Stuffed Contract Jack demo on it (lousy game, but I had the demo onhand) and
everything moved along smoothly on high details on an AMD XP 2200 machine
with 512 megs of RAM.

Quite please with that old card now. I will toss the Half-Life demo on it as
the final test.
 
James A. Cooley said:
Bought one used a while back. Had big problems with it. Finally decided to
try flashing the bios. Figued the card was junk anyway, so what the heck.

Now it seems to work pretty good. Played Deus Ex on it and it look nice.
Stuffed Contract Jack demo on it (lousy game, but I had the demo onhand)
and everything moved along smoothly on high details on an AMD XP 2200
machine with 512 megs of RAM.
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A Radeon 8500 isn't crap. I only upgraded just over a year ago from my 128Mb
8500 (which I clocked at 300/300 on bootup). It got 2500 of 3DMark03 and
11,500 on '01. Really nice 2D and 3D output quality It would do UT2004 at
1024x768 smoothly no problems. It was when I tried Far Cry and Thief:
Deadly Shadows that my 9800 Pro upgrade happened.
 
Augustus said:
A Radeon 8500 isn't crap. I only upgraded just over a year ago from my
128Mb 8500 (which I clocked at 300/300 on bootup). It got 2500 of 3DMark03
and 11,500 on '01. Really nice 2D and 3D output quality It would do
UT2004 at 1024x768 smoothly no problems. It was when I tried Far Cry and
Thief: Deadly Shadows that my 9800 Pro upgrade happened.
Click to expand...

I will probably put it in a nice midrange machine and some kid will end up
with a great budget gaming system. I jsut had to get it to where it worked
right. I wonder if the previous owner of the card maybe tried some
overclocking or bios stuff that didn't work out. Perhaps all I had to do to
fix it was to go back to a factory bios.

All I know is that it looks pretty now.
 
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