HIS Excalibur ATI RADEON 7500LE

Overclocking

With the standard heatsink and fan combo, I didn’t expect much overclocking from this card. I downloaded this cool overclocking utility called Radeonator and proceeded towards overclocking the Excalibur 7500LE. I was able to reach 288/210 with no problems, however going beyond this point seemed impossible. This increase yielded in around a 4% increase in performance, however if you want to go beyond this point firstly you’d have to install a better heatsink on the GPU. Furthermore there are many tweaks you can perform such as increasing the voltage of the card and so on, but we weren’t planning on ruining a perfectly good card just right now. If anyone has some spare cash in them can try it out for curiosity 🙂

Conclusion

Considering that this card retails around AUS$200, it’s definitely well worth to go for by any standard. If you’re looking for higher performance, take a look at the “HIS” Radeon 8500. If we get an opportunity to review this card, well provide with detailed results of this as well. Looking at the benchmarks it looks like the Excalibur 7500LE is capable of competing with the new GeForce 4 MX440 and most other GeForce MX cards. Furthermore it must be noted that most of these GeForce cards do not surrport DVI and TV-outs, and these have to be purchased separately. What’s more, at standard price the GeForce 4 MX440 is expensive than the Radeon 7500LE and it has less options. By weighing the pro’s and con’s it’s pretty obvious that the Excalibur 7500LE offers great value for money. If you’re currently looking for a cheap but decent upgrade in the video card department, I’m sure this card would suite most users perfectly.