Fried my Radeon LE

[acid_burn~187]

:D ****!!! Well.. it was great while it lasted... Some of you might have noticed my post from a few days ago when I got my Radeon LE from 147Mhz to 191Mhz... Well, I put the card at 191Mhz and played some Max Payne. I made it through 1 level and BOOM, up in smoke it goes. :)

So I goto the store like 20 minutes later and pick up a Radeon 7000 TV-Out. It SUCKS, dont' get this card. It's like half the speed of my radeon LE.

What really sucks is that I put heatsinks on it's ram chips and OC'd it before even testing it out, so now I can't bring it back with those heatsinks glued there. :0) So I'v got this 150$ POS and I don't have money to eat for the next 3 days. Wonderful.

~Paul

[outlaw_revolver]

Its time to call your mommy for money :D

Why not just get you a geforce3 and be done with ATI? The new geforce4 mx's arn't over 200 (that I have seen)

[acid_burn~187]

two reasons: Visual Quality, Price

I just bought a retail version of the 64Meg Radeon DDR VIVO on e-bay for 90$. that'l be fine for a while.

~Paul

[delhi]

WHoa! I remembered your post too! Man thank God I only ran 3dmark for a few times whtn it was clocked at 190mhz on my LE!!! eck! Been using it at 183 so far.
What were you thinking about when u got that crappy radoen 7000? it has a lousy 64bit chipset and no hyperZ whatsoever!

think i should go out and stock up some more LEs :D

mx400 doesn't even hold a candle to a radeon le/DDR. let alone it's more expensive that it either!

[acid_burn~187]

Agreed, for the money the Radeon LE is definetly a good choice. I'm selling my new 7000 (after having it 3 days). Anybody interested?? :)

~Paul

[buddhahaha]

You know, The Radeon LE seems to be basically the same as the 7000. Might want to look for a 7200 instead.

[acid_burn~187]

After owning both, I can tell you right now that the 7000 is NOT the same as the LE. I dunno about the 7200.

~Paul

[buddhahaha]

OOPS! Your right. I was thinking of the VE, The LE seems to be more like th 7200. Excepth ATI says it was mean't for the Chinese market. If that makes any difference.

[*TeKKeD*]

What is the best ATI Radeon card?? price is not a issue, just performance!!

[buddhahaha]

That would be the 8500. they are coming out with a 128 DDR MB version that's supposed to be the best.

[delhi]

no the 7200 is not the same as the LE. They both share 128-bit chipset. But the 7200 comes with SDR which chokes the capability of this chip. While the LE coems with DDR. So there you go! ;)
LE is way cheaper than either of those 7xxxx cards and offer better performance once you do the simple tweaks.