The magical mystery card!

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 04:51:18 Fri, June 29, 2007

Asus has finally done it! They have harnessed the magic of the orient and fused it with their latest 8500 GT! Asus has called this enchanted 8500 GT the EN8500GT SILENT MAGIC/HTP/512M. This phrase is actually on the card's page: "Magic Gaming Experience with 512MB Memory and New-Aged DirectX 10"

Can you put a price on a "magic" 8500 GT that has 512MB of underclocked DDR2? I don't think you can!

Magic card.

10 Comments

Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:58:15 PM

anonymousD
guest

oooook. so, besides a handful of folks, who's gonna buy it? :)

Sunday, July 01, 2007 3:57:24 AM

anonymous
guest

Well, I like me 8800gts just fine, but if I wanted to build a super-silent media PC, this one would look pretty attractive.

Monday, July 02, 2007 12:53:24 AM

anonymous
guest

ASUS, don't be so lame please :P

Monday, July 02, 2007 4:24:43 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

For gaming ? Useless .
For anything else ? Useful .

Tuesday, July 03, 2007 5:13:47 AM

Stormcrow
guest

The card is actually a shapechanged 8800 Ultra, and in the heatsink lives a small colony of techno-gnomes. If you rub the transistors just right, they might change the card back to its original form. Or maybe not, depends on your luck. ;) Now if only we can get Asus' special far eastern hoodoo to make the HD 2k series worth buying...

Tuesday, July 03, 2007 4:50:57 PM

anonymousD
guest

wow! :D

as far as the 2900 go, kinda shot in ze foot.
if it was exactly as the 640mb, except it ate twice the juice, would u still buy it to support ati? i coulndt, for one :D
dan

Wednesday, July 04, 2007 10:33:49 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

I would support ATI's HD 2900 XT , because IMHO it can squeeze out a lot more performance than the 8800 GTS with newer drivers and native DX10 games. Right now it beats the 8800 GTS by quite a margin ( not a super massive margin , but it's closer to the 8800 GTX than to the GTS IMHO ) and eats 75W more than the 8800GTS .

Monday, July 09, 2007 5:24:29 PM

DaBratt
guest

Wonderful news article, I�ve laughed for some time now:)

Concerning the card, it�s a must buy!

Friday, July 13, 2007 5:16:16 AM

anonymousD
n00b

just saw teh darn thing for sale lol..expensive as fudge too :p 100 something usd..screw it :D

Saturday, August 04, 2007 10:39:00 AM

Kwipper
guest

This comment is for Radiator.

If ATI's HD 2900 XT graphic card so good, then why is it getting creamed by quite a number of reviews I've seen so far.

Let me know if I should post URL's of the reviews as proof.. and I'll do it.

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