Hercules All In Wonder Radeon 8500DV
Test setup
Before I begin it must be noted that the Hercules AIW Radeon 8500DV is not purely marketed as a gamers card. This is more suited for the multimedia enthusiasts who enjoy an occasional game.
| CPU | AMD Athlon XP 1800+ |
| Motherboard | Epox 8KHA+ |
| Memory | Crucial 256MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM |
| Hard Disk | IBM Deskstar 60GXP |
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| Operating System | Windows XP Professional |
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As expected, the performance of the Hercule AIW Radeon 8500DV is less than the Radeon 8500 due to it’s slower clock setting. Nevertheless it isn’t a bad performance at all either as it’s quite close to the performance of a GeForce 3.
Even though the Radeon 8500DV is not aimed at gamers, it still is capable of coping with the high demands. If you plan on using this card for more games, then I would suggest that you get a better heatsink/fan combo as the one already installed is not capable to handling the heat for too long. We didn’t experience any freezed screens, however the gameplay was breaking up all the time.
