Well I don't know how many of you read Anandtechs forums but they had a posting about how you can get a ATI Radeon 8500 for a whole $200 bucks! For you that are interested this is what you have to do:
goto dell's website
goto Software and Peripherals
Select Small Business
Search for either ATI or Radeon 8500
Select it and you get 20% off which equals to just about $50 bucks off. I had to pay $12 bucks in taxes but I got next day shipping for Free! The two biggest problems are that it runs out today and you can only get it if your in the USA. I got an estmated ship date of the 9th of October.
The best/worst thing that could happen is that Matrox will say something next week about the next gen card coming out. I still plan on getting that card, no questions asked. I just get rid of the Radeon 8500 on ebay or something and recover at least 3/4 of the cost of the card.
I'll do some benchmarking when I get the card also for those interested....
Scott
goto dell's website
goto Software and Peripherals
Select Small Business
Search for either ATI or Radeon 8500
Select it and you get 20% off which equals to just about $50 bucks off. I had to pay $12 bucks in taxes but I got next day shipping for Free! The two biggest problems are that it runs out today and you can only get it if your in the USA. I got an estmated ship date of the 9th of October.
The best/worst thing that could happen is that Matrox will say something next week about the next gen card coming out. I still plan on getting that card, no questions asked. I just get rid of the Radeon 8500 on ebay or something and recover at least 3/4 of the cost of the card.
I'll do some benchmarking when I get the card also for those interested....
Scott
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