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merovaine
September 17th, 2001, 05:00
It seems that Radeon 8500 (Radeon 2) is going to available to us soon. Theoraticaly (from its specs), it appears to be better than the Geforce 3 and many of the benchmarks done (in Toms Hardware website) justify this. Can ATI finally cease nVidia's rule over the graphics industry?
psxyke
September 17th, 2001, 20:55
Maybe :D Radeon 8500 it will be my next card :p
ebola
September 17th, 2001, 21:42
the radeon 8500 is a bit better than gforce 3. but it also is going to initially cost the same as gforce 3. I'll probably get a radeon 7500 because i cant afford the newer card.
Zephon
September 17th, 2001, 21:46
It will be cheaper, too. btw, I read somewhere that ati was going to start selling video chipsets for card manufacturers, just like nvidia. Is it true?
ebola
September 20th, 2001, 10:13
Originally posted by Zephon
It will be cheaper, too. btw, I read somewhere that ati was going to start selling video chipsets for card manufacturers, just like nvidia. Is it true?

yea i read that somewhere too.
fivefeet8
September 20th, 2001, 20:32
Yes, ATi is and will let other companies develop their own Radeon cards.. But Nvidia is giving card manufacturers a hard time about it.. They are threatening to not allow those manufacturers to make invidea cards if they start making ati cards.. So maybe only a few will be coming from other companies..
Demigod
September 20th, 2001, 22:08
Originally posted by fivefeet8
Yes, ATi is and will let other companies develop their own Radeon cards.. But Nvidia is giving card manufacturers a hard time about it.. They are threatening to not allow those manufacturers to make invidea cards if they start making ati cards.. So maybe only a few will be coming from other companies..
Heh, kinda reminds me of Intel and their bully tactics. I remember them doing the exact same thing with motherboard manufacturers wanting to produce Athlon mobos.
JAZ
September 20th, 2001, 23:36
Yes, ATi is and will let other companies develop their own Radeon cards.. But Nvidia is giving card manufacturers a hard time about it.. They are threatening to not allow those manufacturers to make invidea cards if they start making ati cards.. So maybe only a few will be coming from other companies..

wot nvidia using any backhand tactic they can think of to crush the competition....
LMAO ............well who'd of thought it

JAZ