Another Radeon LE (or VE)?? $86 for 32MB DDR with free UPS shipping $86

[bobpig]

anyone wanna try this out??

ATI Radeon 32MB DDR OEM $86 with free UPS shipping

don't know if this one is a regular Radeon...

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

Here's CyberpowerPC's description from Pricewatch:

"2048x1536, agp 4x, RADEONTM graphics processing unit . 32mb DDR No HYPER Z"

NO Hyper Z = Radeon LE.

Just look at www.pricewatch.com ---lots of vendors are selling the LE in the $80-90 range. Once you factor in reliability and shipping costs, newegg.com gets the nod.

 

[bobpig]

agree, but looks like pricewatch reported false, it says
$79 but turns out to be $86, if it is $79....

 

[CarpeDeo]

Hmm, the picture shows that this Radeon has a fan on it. I checked the specs, but it doesn't mention whether it has one or not. Anybody know for sure?

 

[robilium]

Hey all I ordered the DDR LE from newegg.com I must say the company is good but the card really sucked. There is NO fan on the card. However, I just called up ATI and said the card sucked, and wasnt working right and they sent me a nice new standard DDR one OVERNIGHT! I just put the LE in and sent it to them. The quality is definitely not up to par on the LE.

 

[StumbleBum1]

To robilium

can you Pm or post the ati tel # you called.I would like to give this a try

 

[robilium]

Sure,

It is just the customer service number at www.ati.com
Technical Support (Voice): 905-882-2626 Technical Support FAX: 905-882-0546

 

[LukFilm]

There is no way the card sucked and that the one you got now is SO much better. You are making it up, man, they are exactly the same except LE is lower clock speed.

 

[Kingofcomputer]

That's interesting.
Did they ask for your credit card?
What if they find out you send back a non ATI made card?

 

[AnimEva]

i have to agree as well, there is no way the normal DDR radeon is so much better than the LE, both have been tested already and there was hardly any difference and the LE does have Hyper-Z in Direct3D, just turned off as default, but u can turn it on, so i think what you said was not true, and misleading people.

 

[railer]

...but...but...the LE doesn't come with a FAN! How can the LE be fast if it doesn't even have a fan? Riddle me that. Bottom line: Fan = fast, no fan = junk.

j/k of course. I've got one of these LE's and it hauls. I got powerstrip 3.0, enabled my Hyper-Z, and clocked the sucker up to 180....with NO FAN!!! (Probably if I glued a fan onto the front it would make it at least 3x faster. I'll have to do that. )

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

Better yet, if you add a fan to eh the LE and overclock it (run it at 8000 rpm), you can break the 100fps barrier in Q3 32 bit!!!!

Only problem is, the fan motor gets hot when I overclock it, but I'm working on watercooling my fan.

 

[digim0rtal]

It has been stated by ATi that the fan is mostly cosmetic (b/c the oTHER cards have them) and not really needed. The design of the board spreads out the heat well enough. Also the lower clock speed makes only a miniscule difference. So you don't need the fan or the clock speed, you might as well save the money. The LE is actually a better choice. (you can overclock it to VE specs w/o a fan if you really must).

 

[BadMuleS]

not bad at all