03-07-2002
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Location: Delhi (India)
Member since: Mar 2002, 59 posts
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Ocm Pc3000 Ddr333 Ram
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Like other manufacturers, FIC knows that to gain market share they have to diversify their lineup, and the best step in the right direction has always been to produce videocards. The FIC Radeon 8500/AT0008 is one of the first in the series of FIC videocards to hit the market. Along with the powerful Radeon 8500 GPU, the AT0008 offers itself up to consumers for about $250CDN. Even though FIC is a large manufacturer of motherboards, their Radeon 8500 is still considered OEM since it's not sold directly by ATI. As many of you may realize, ATI clock all OEM versions lower then their Retail versions. Thus the ATI Radeon 8500 has a core set to 250MHz down from 275MHz, and a 500 MHz bus speed down from 550MHz.
ATI seems to feel that this justifies the higher price tags for their retail cards. Another thing to keep in mind is that even though both the Retail ATI Radeon 8500 and the OEM Radeon 8500 versions (like the good old FIC card above) have the same actual hardware, most users will never be able to overclock to, or much higher than retail speeds because the BIOS versions are different.
As I understand it, the OEM BIOS feeds both the R200 core and the memory with slightly lower voltages then are found with the Retail Radeon 8500.
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