GeForce3 Under Attack: ATi's Radeon 8500 Previewed

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Hardware Setup
Motherboard Asus P4T, Intel 850, BIOS 1005 beta 3
Memory 2 x 128 MB Infineon PC800 RDRAM
Processor Intel Pentium 4 1.7 GHz
Network Card 3Com 3C905B-TX
Hard Drive IBM DTLA-307030, ATA100, 7200 RPM, FAT32
Graphics Cards
ATi Radeon 8500 64 MB 3.6 ns DDR-SDRAM250 MHz Core Clock275 MHz Memory ClockDriver 7167
ATi Radeon 7500 64 MB 4 ns DDR-SDRAM270 MHz Core Clock230 MHz Memory ClockDriver 7167
NVIDIA GeForce3 Reference Card 64 MB 4 ns DDR-SDRAM200 MHz Core Clock230 MHz Memory ClockDriver 2080
NVIDIA GeForce2 Pro Reference Card 64 MB 4.5 ns DDR-SDRAM200 MHz Core Clock200 MHz Memory ClockDriver 2080
Software Setup
Operating System Windows Me 4.90.3000
DirectX 8.1 beta 648
Quake 3 Arena Retail Version
Evolva Demo Build 944
DronezMark Downloadable Version
Giants Retail Version, Patched to rev. 1396
AquaMark AquaNox Downloadable Demo
3DMark2001 Downloadable www.madonion.com
Refresh Rates 85 Hz for each screen resolution