[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for this
link. ]
“The GeForce 8500GT is NVIDIA’s value-priced contender in the
GeForce 8 series. The 8500GT has a 450MHz core clock and 400MHz
memory clock, but how is this $100 creation able to compete against
other graphics cards from ATI and NVIDIA? We have our hands on the
passively cooled Gigabyte GeForce 8500GT 256MB graphics card and
have run our usual Linux graphics tests along with some of our
first overclocking attempts with this new solution.“Last week NVIDIA introduced the GeForce 8500 and 8600 series as
the midrange DirectX 10 graphics cards to accompany the already
existing high-end GeForce 8800 series…”