ATI Radeon 8500LE 128

pIED_pIPER

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Hi, I recently purchased a Radeon card built by ATI (great card, very satisfied) and was wondering if over clocking the card to 300/300 MHZ will damage it over a period of time?

The reason I ask is because It appears to me that the LE is actually a full <<8500>> yesterday I over clocked it to 300/300 for a few hours and it ran without any error and lockups. I wonder if I got the 3.3 ns RAM.

Shortly after I bought my Radeon 85000 128 LE I noticed that a lot of people were posting in forums like this one that the LE is capable of running as fast or if not faster than it’s big brother the retail 8500.

Is the 8500le the same card as the 8500 with just a slight under clock i.e.250/250 vs. 275/275? If so, I would assume that oc’ing my LE would be safe?

Any info on this subject would be greatly appreciated.


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LE is the same as a retail 8500 with the memory/core clocked lower. if u want 2 leave the card running at 300/300
it's better if u add some ramsink and put a bigger hsf over the core ( use a old pentium cooler with base about 45x45 or 50x50)

u can check the rate of the ram by reading the last 1 or 2 digits printed on the surface of the ram, typically it goes something like HY5DV641622A-4. the last digit 4 means it's 4ns and if it says 33 then it's 3.3ns or if it says 38 then it's 3.8ns
 

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I used to have this card (RMA'd it for a future Ti4200). If you got the BBA Retail, then it either has 3.6ns or 3.3ns RAM. 3.6ns RAM seeming to be more common. This means the RAM is rated to run @ 275MHz. I got mine to run @ 310/310. My card had 3.6ns RAM. If you intend to run it constantly at those speeds, I'd suggest the same thing as 10GHz said, just cause it's really pushing the card. At least something to cool it a bit better.

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