powermagic radeon 8500/7500?

[borat]

i have read a review at

http://www.digit-life.com/articles/pmradeon2/index.html

about the above cards and was wondering if anybody knew of any online retailers selling them (especially in europe) or selling any other 3rd party radeons anywhere.
thanks

[Gurm]

3rd party radeons are clocked slower, according to all reports. Additionally, there may or may not be a need to only use the third-party drivers (not that all ATI owners don't just use the Omega drivers anyway)... also there are RUMOURS (and I have zero confirmation on them so treat them only as rumours) that the output might not be as nice - slower DACs.

- Gurm

[EvilDonnyboy]

360mhz RAMDAC on ATi's OEM cards.

[The Rock]

DFI is also making a Radeon. Most of you may not recognize the name, but DFI (Diamond Flower International) makes pretty solid motherboards; you just don't hear much about em.

http://www.dfi.com/product/Images/RADEON70b.jpg

Pretty cool looking.

[borat]

gurm what are these omega drivers which you speak of ?
are they faster than ati and are they stable?

[mdhome]

Borat
The omega drivers are just a collection of drivers produced by ATI that are packaged up separately by Omega. I'm not sure if he includes any *other* goodies in the package and he certainly hasnt written the drivers himself.

As an aside, His drivers are the only ones that I can install for my Radeon under Win2k. All official ATI ones generate an error message whilst installing!!!!


regards MD

[Indiana]

Those Omega drivers are a mix of different ATI releases (e.g DX is working better with some ATI revisions than OGL and vice versa so why not use DX from one package and OGL from the other and bundle them as an own complete install). Besides those drivers set all registry settings to values that he believes are the best / most compatible for general use.