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Re: ATI Radeon 8500
« Reply #14 from previous page: February 05, 2003, 02:22:17 PM »
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.
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Re: ATI Radeon 8500
« Reply #15 on: February 05, 2003, 05:19:25 PM »
My LE (powermagic) has got DVI-output.
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Re: ATI Radeon 8500
« Reply #16 on: February 05, 2003, 08:02:59 PM »
My Mac version cost £210  :-o I'm jelous of PC peripheral prices! :madashell:
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Re: ATI Radeon 8500
« Reply #17 on: February 07, 2003, 10:33:49 AM »
Well, I bought it but he's also offering a S-vid cable and scart box for an additional £8.50.

Is this good value and what would I use it for?
(I'm new to graphics cards)

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Re: ATI Radeon 8500
« Reply #18 on: February 07, 2003, 12:00:33 PM »
You could plug the s-vid cable in your TV, if you got such input. I use an s-vid to standard rca plug cable (one signal, one ground) and straight to my TV. Many TV sets lack the standard rca input, but if you got scart then you could use the scart-box instead. just check what inputs it has got.
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Re: ATI Radeon 8500
« Reply #19 on: February 07, 2003, 12:04:12 PM »
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You could plug the s-vid cable in your TV


Is this basically the equivalent of an A500 RF modulator?

I'm wondering if I'll ever *want* to plug my computer into the TV.

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Re: ATI Radeon 8500
« Reply #20 on: February 07, 2003, 02:43:53 PM »
Its not RF, its video, so the picture would be more clear.
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Re: ATI Radeon 8500
« Reply #21 on: February 07, 2003, 02:47:30 PM »

I actually used my ATi 9000 Pro to play Day of Defeat on my TV.  It was quite an experience!!!! The quality is better than the good old modulator.
 

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Re: ATI Radeon 8500
« Reply #22 on: February 07, 2003, 02:49:02 PM »
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