I got burned buying a hercules prophet 9000 pro 128mb agp. with tv out, dvi and vga out.
anyway a demo for the redeon 8500 that came on the cd with card wouldnt work saying my gpu didnt support hardware n patches. So i spoke to hercules and they told me that the 8500 is actually a better gpu running at a higher clock.
fooled by number again, u would assume that a redeon 9000 would be better than a 8500, the 9700 is cetrainley better than the ones b4.