Hexus has posted a review on the ATI Radeon 8500 card with both the old and new driver sets

I'd love to give the Radeon an Editors Choice Award I really would. I love the hardware, it's a nice design, support for DX8.1 is good etc. But the drivers aren't what I'd call production usable. For instance, during the writing of the last half of this review, following a reboot to install UniTuner, I'm suddenly left with only 60Hz as a refresh rate.

While I can apparently set other refresh rates with success, with both the windows display control panel, Powerstrip and UniTuner all reporting success in setting different refresh rates, my eyes and monitor both tell me otherwise.

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