[Manny]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Gerard:

Well thats some weirdness right there. The ti200 outperformed the radeon?

Overclocking the 8500 would have given you far better results, as it is now your card wont do much more whereas the radeon had more potential.

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Well, overclocking a Geforce 3 Ti 200 is

1) safe
2) stable
3) easy

while giving you about 15-20% increased performance.

Sadly, none of these 3 things is true for overclocking a Radeon 8500.

Maybe you are able to overclock your Radeon 8500 similiar without any problems. Then you're great. But some people prefer not living on the edge

btw, I don't know why you're such a fan of ATI. They make great cards, but for a bunch of "nice canadians" they sure tried a lot bad stuff. I remeber how they cheated on most Quake III benchmarks by giving drivers to all reviewers that drastically decreased the image quality in order to make the card look better on paper. At the same time, I don't understand why you hate nvidia. Sure, they release new cards every 6 months, but that doesn't mean you have to buy them. Not to mention that driver support for new and old cards has always been great.

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