I was at bestbuy yesterday and i seen the geforce 8500 GT 512mb video card for only $86.00, it read to be an awsome card for that cheap price so i bought because i need a new card, and this one even plays direct x10... but when i opened it it looks like a piece of cheap crap! even my girl friend sais thats it looks like junk! ha! anyway before i use it i want to research this a little because if it really is crap i can still bring it back and buy something eles which of course will cost 4 times the price.... OUCH...
2007-09-23 09:42:45 · 6 answers · asked by brussels152 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Specifications – 8500GT 512MB
BUS Technology PCI Express
Memory Amount 512 MB DDR2
Memory Interface 128-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec.) 12.8
Fill Rate (billion pixels/sec.) 3.6
Stream Processors 32
Shader Clock (MHz) 900 MHz
Core Clock (MHz) 450 MHz
Memory Frequency (effective) 800 MHz
2007-09-23 09:47:03 · update #1
Direct x10
SLI ready
2560 x 1600 resolution
2007-09-23 09:50:03 · update #2
This would have been better bang for the buck, especially if you overclock:
http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4925
It has double the number of stream processors compared to 8500GT. Cards with ddr2 are SLOW. 256mb ddr3 readily beats 512mb ddr2.
I fully agree with you, that card is crap. It is really a castrated 8600GT.
2007-09-23 12:22:46 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nicely, the 8500 could value as a bad performer as a gaming card...that's no longer meant for gaming...it in basic terms isn't quickly sufficient nor does it have the mandatory reminiscence bandwidth. like the others have suggested, you may want an 8800gt or ati 3870 for "extreme-end" gaming. even nonetheless, the 8500 does shine at HD video. so which you may desire to a minimum of try this lots. in actuality, simply by fact the decrease end 8xxx sequence enjoying cards have been released after the better end 8xxx sequence enjoying cards (apart from the 8800gt and 8800gtsg92) they incorporate many HD content cloth useful factors that the dearer enjoying cards lack, like HDCP help. i recognize many of the 8600s do no longer help this. That being suggested, you may desire to do greater advantageous with a greater recent ati card for HD video (like the 3850 or 3870) simply by actuality that the cpu will offload the reading to the gpu offering greater advantageous overall performance. so a strategies as i recognize, no nvidia card does this.
2016-10-09 17:22:15 · answer #2 · answered by bobbee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Geforce 8400/8500/8600 series are terrible.
A Geforce7950GT is like $179, but is many times faster than the 8500GT.
DirectX10 support doesn't matter at all if it's going to run at less than 5 FPS.
The cheapest card I'd get that supports DirectX10 is the 8800GTS 320MB version.
2007-09-23 09:48:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, thats probably a good card. I don't know why you think it looks like crap.
2007-09-23 09:49:58 · answer #4 · answered by Erik H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, it is a low-end card.. but depending on what sort of games you want to play, it should do the job.
bottom line is, you get what you pay for.
2007-09-23 09:48:42 · answer #5 · answered by John Titor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree terrible card bye a atix1950pro
till you can afford a 8800gt i tryed the 8600gt took it back it sucked
2007-09-23 11:41:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋