For Canadians : Cheap ATI8500 OEM!!!

[kimcheeboy]

Once again, CanadaComputers has pulled through for us Canadians and provided a great deal. OEM (250/250) model for $328 Canadian which would be "almost" similar in terms of price to the Dell $200 US deal. Damn that exchange rate!

Here's the link

 

[GeorgeJung]

is this the same card as the one dell is selling?

 

[huesmann]

I believe the Dell is supposed to be a retail version, not OEM. Of course, that's assuming you can get one from Dell. Not bloody likely! :|

 

[DieHardware]

Thanks for the heads up...oh and bump.

 

[RideFree]

WARNING!
Apparently these are not being shipped with the same 275/275 as retail! read it at

http://www.overclockers.com

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Some Are More Equal Than Others There's an item at Tech Report which indicates that "white box" Radeon 8500 are being shipped running at 250/250 rather than the retail box's 275/275.

Could be two reasons for that. The rational reason would be that this is what ATI does with boards that don't quite cut it. The marketing reason would be to persuade folks to lay out another $50 or so for the retail package.

Anybody overclock one of these "white box" Radeon 8500 packages? Update: From some responses and poking around, these white box Radeons don't do terribly well; up to the spec speed of the "regular" Radeon and little more.
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Caveat Emptor

^bump^