Why Radeon 32DDR boxed is bout 2 times more expensive then OEM

[Notorious AGD]

Why or whats the big difference?

Thanks

[K6-III]

Many of the OEM 32mb DDR Radeons are of the LE variety. (HyperZ disabled) BTW, the retail versions of the Radeon LE, only for sale in China, are made by ATI, while the OEM versions are made by someone else. You can read about this at www.reactorcritical.com

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Gimme my TriLevel Cache

[sven256]

also the ram is different it is somthing like 5ns instead of 4.5ns but they r still good o/cers

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go to http://pub24.ezboard.com/bultrabytecomputingforum

[This message has been edited by sven256 (edited 02-20-2001).]

[Shinma]

Nice box.
Software.
If you purchase LE model and require to enable the HyperZ, do the following:
Using the codes below (you must insert them into Windows registry), you will active the HYPER-Z function (disabled by manufacturer):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ATI Technologies\Driver\0000\atidxhal]
"DisableHierarchicalZ"="0"
"EnableWaitUntilIdxTriList2"="1"
"DisableHyperZ"="0"
"FastZClearEnabled"="1"
"Vsync"="0"
"AntiAlias"="0"
"ZFormats"="3"
"ExportCompressedTex"="1"

Additional information at the following link: http://www.rage3d.com/


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Cheers.

[Notorious AGD]

Thanks for the Info but now im going to get the 64DDR with TVOut. Thanks again

[wlats]

The Radeon 64 DDR vivo retail (that I just bought) has 183DDR (i.e. 366) memory, whereas I've seen OEM versions of the card for about 3/4 of the price, but with 166DDR (i.e. 333) memory. ATI's website has a vague warning that OEM specs may vary from the retail cards. The situation is the same for Nvidia's OEM vs retail cards, too.

I did read one reviewer stating that overclocking the Radeon (both the GPU and its memory) had less effect on overall speed than he'd expected. Presumably that means that the OEM cards aren't that much worse than the retail ones.

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K200, but not for much longer: I've ordered, but not yet received:

Duron 800 + Taisol 742
KT7a
256Mb Crucial 133 cl2
Globalwin 802 case
Enermax 451 PSU
IBM 75GXP 4.6Gb HD
Radeon 64Mb DDR vivo

I cant wait...