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ATI Radeon 7000, can't tell if DDR

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Name: John
Date: August 8, 2002 at 08:34:35 Pacific
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I recently got an ATI Radeon 7000 card off Ebay; the card was advertised as a 32MB DDR card but I strongly suspect it is a standard SDR card. The problem is there is no identification at all either on the box or in the install guide or the card itself as to what this thing is. The box just says 32MB onboard memory. I did a google search on the memory chips (hynix hy57v641620hg) and there is little documentation out there but what there is SEEMS to identify it as SDR. Can't call ATI because they don't offer free tech support for "powered-by ATI" cards (another thing the seller failed to mention, he advertised it as an ATI card with ATI warrentee, no mention of the "powered-by".) Is there is a program I can run that will identify the memory type? Thanks.



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Name: Mike123
Date: August 8, 2002 at 08:39:03 Pacific
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I think it is a DDR card.

Have a look here:

http://mirror.ati.com/products/pc/radeon7000/index.html


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Response Number 2
Name: Bill
Date: August 8, 2002 at 09:44:22 Pacific
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It's got to be, because I've got just the basic Radeon and it's ddr.


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Response Number 3
Name: John
Date: August 8, 2002 at 14:17:07 Pacific
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There are Radeon 7000 cards that are either SDR or DDR, they can be the exact same model. Also ATI's website has both types listed for the Radeon 7000, both SDR and DDR. You can't tell which one yours is just by looking at the website.

I've never seen such piss-poor documentation and support as I've seen with ATI. It's unbelievable it should be this hard to figure out which freakin type of card one has.


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Response Number 4
Name: Art Smass
Date: August 8, 2002 at 16:10:31 Pacific
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All in Wonder
All in Wonder Pro
All in Wonder 128
All in Wonder 128 Pro
All in Wonder Radeon
All in Wonder Radeon 7500
All in Wonder Radeon 8500
All in Wonder Radeon 8500DV

They don't even list their drivers in an orderly fashion (as I have tried to do above), see for yourself;

http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html

Click on "select your product".


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Response Number 5
Name: Ron Watts
Date: August 8, 2002 at 18:51:28 Pacific
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Most of thier drivers are the same with one or two exceptions. I have a builtby ATI radeon 7000 and it has 64 mb ddr. Unless it is an old card I would say it probably is ddr.Mine was 79$ brand new


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Response Number 6
Name: cashcomp
Date: August 8, 2002 at 22:23:57 Pacific
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In your control panel, go to DISPLAY PROPERTIES. Once there you should find a few extra tabs. ATI (even the Powered by ATI) always includes some hardware tests that you can run. these tests will tell you if it is SDR or DDR.

Good luck


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Response Number 7
Name:
Date: August 8, 2002 at 22:34:29 Pacific
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John

Just wondering what it says if you go to Device Manager and look at your Display adapters. Choose properties for the Radeon and Details (Tab). If that doesn't help. At least you should have more information to help you find out. Good luck


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Response Number 8
Name:
Date: August 8, 2002 at 22:36:47 Pacific
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...whoops your post wasn't there when I came in. But was after I posted :-)


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