I have a Radeon PCI card in my 8500 and have been pleased with its
performance. When its in use I can't even hear the fan. I think its
there more for show then anything. I bought it about 6 months ago.
Hope this helps.
> Hello:
>
> Is anyone using the Radeon PCI card? And if so, when did you buy the
> card?
> I am asking because there have been many reports of very loud fans on
> these cards and I'm wondering if this was just isolated to the first
> couple of batches made.
>
> Initially the Radeon VE card looked promising (no fan on this) but I've
> read some reports of the PC version the last couple of days and it looks
> pretty pathetic. No idea what the Mac version will be like until people
> actually get ahold of them and run some tests. They are due this month,
> so
> hopefully we'll see them sooner, rather than later. It is supposed to be
> more powerful than the Rage Orion, but not as powerful as a true Radeon.
> Time will tell.
>
> Gordon Hawley
>
>
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