Crucial Technology Launches First Crucial Brand Video Card

Doomtrooper · Jul 30, 2002, 07:54 AM

ATI has another board manufacturer jump on board, this one is a big Surprise !
Crucial Technology has announced today that they will be producing a Radeon 8500 LE with High Quality Micron Ram.

Link Here

DallasStar · Jul 30, 2002, 07:55 AM

WTF

.............I would never have expected this

franguinho · Jul 30, 2002, 08:57 AM

great, so not only will crucial be providing us with crappy ram but also crappy videocards. fantastic.

Doomtrooper · Jul 30, 2002, 11:41 AM

Crappy Ram ?? Crucial makes the some of the best Quality Ram going, and cheap too... My old DDR 2700 modules overclock to 145 mhz..not bad for 2700 Ram ..
What exactly is crappy about a 8500 ??

Alistair · Jul 30, 2002, 12:05 PM

maybe the fact that it isn't a R9700? hehe

Desert_Siege · Jul 30, 2002, 01:24 PM

145 on PC2700 is kind of lame, I have some Kingston PC2100 value ram that will do 150 and the OCZ PC2400 I have will do 160 fast timings and 178 if I slow the timings down to 3-2.5-3. Crucial DOES make some decent memory, but its not cheap or maybe it is when you compare it to Mushkin.

I guess they had to jump on board the bandwagon since PNY is selling Nvidia cards.

WyreTheWolf · Jul 30, 2002, 01:46 PM

I noticed something quite interesting ... go to the support section, and then Driver downloads...

Why would there drivers be coming from http://www.sapphiretech.com ??

It makes me wonder just a little.

Vampyromaniac · Jul 30, 2002, 04:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Doomtrooper
Crappy Ram ?? Crucial makes the some of the best Quality Ram going, and cheap too... My old DDR 2700 modules overclock to 145 mhz..not bad for 2700 Ram ..

Yes, yes! I used to have PC100's. I slapped 'em in my AthlonXP system, cranked 'em to 133 MHz, and they worked without a single hiccup.
Crucial = awesome!

EDIT:
Oh, and I just got a 256 MB stick of DDR266 for $42 directly from Crucial. Their price even beat all the OEM resellers.

Jul 30, 2002, 07:54 AM	#1
Doomtrooper Driverheaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Great White North Posts: 206 Rep Power: 0	Crucial Technology Launches First Crucial Brand Video Card ATI has another board manufacturer jump on board, this one is a big Surprise ! Crucial Technology has announced today that they will be producing a Radeon 8500 LE with High Quality Micron Ram. Link Here __________________ "It's time to kick A$$ and chew bubble gum....and I'm all out of gum." Duke Nukem November 1996

Jul 30, 2002, 07:55 AM	#2
DallasStar Junior Join Date: May 2002 Location: Wave Existence Posts: 2,065 Rep Power: 0	WTF .............I would never have expected this __________________ "A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night." --- Franz Kafka

Jul 30, 2002, 08:57 AM	#3
franguinho Brazilian Fool Join Date: May 2002 Location: São Paulo Posts: 3,380 Rep Power: 0	great, so not only will crucial be providing us with crappy ram but also crappy videocards. fantastic. __________________ The Aliens mostly come out at night... mostly...

Jul 30, 2002, 11:41 AM	Thread Starter #4
Doomtrooper Driverheaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The Great White North Posts: 206 Rep Power: 0	Crappy Ram ?? Crucial makes the some of the best Quality Ram going, and cheap too... My old DDR 2700 modules overclock to 145 mhz..not bad for 2700 Ram .. What exactly is crappy about a 8500 ?? __________________ "It's time to kick A$$ and chew bubble gum....and I'm all out of gum." Duke Nukem November 1996

Jul 30, 2002, 12:05 PM	#5
Alistair Spoos Join Date: May 2002 Location: State College, PA, USA Posts: 435 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	maybe the fact that it isn't a R9700? hehe __________________ - Alistair

Jul 30, 2002, 01:24 PM	#6
Desert_Siege Professional Slacker Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: KY Posts: 274 Rep Power: 0	I have PC2400 that will do 160 2-2-2 145 on PC2700 is kind of lame, I have some Kingston PC2100 value ram that will do 150 and the OCZ PC2400 I have will do 160 fast timings and 178 if I slow the timings down to 3-2.5-3. Crucial DOES make some decent memory, but its not cheap or maybe it is when you compare it to Mushkin. I guess they had to jump on board the bandwagon since PNY is selling Nvidia cards.

Jul 30, 2002, 01:46 PM	#7
WyreTheWolf Wolfish Bastard Join Date: May 2002 Location: Cave; Ozark Mountains Posts: 2,110 Rep Power: 0	I noticed something quite interesting ... go to the support section, and then Driver downloads... Why would there drivers be coming from http://www.sapphiretech.com ?? It makes me wonder just a little.