Talk:Radeon R200 series

Query
http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org/index.php/Main_Page

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As a matter of fact about the 9250, it was the last and a very minor re-spin of the 8500 core. If someone desperately wants to write a full history of the development and market impact of the 8500 core in the graphics card market, that would be a reasonable article.

The 9250 is just a footnote at the very end of the life cycle of 8500 core, and hence does not merit a page of its own for that reason. Having a page for each stepping / revision of every electronics product manufactured, is not reasonable or desirable for the general WIKI. It would just become a technical database, little used, little read.

Timharwoodx 18:13, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well, against the obvious case, the moderator failed to delete. WIKi is not a database for spec sheets, and product parts, so I've had to do what I said, move it, and re-write it. The article contined several basic factual errors, such as stating the 9250 was based on the 9200, when really it derived from the old 8500 core. The difference being minimal. Also, the card supported directx 8.1, NOT 8.0, as the article claimed. Personally, I think the WIKI is going soft. Dissapointing to see such obviously inaccurate and flawed articles pass VFD, without even being marked as 'tidy up' by admins. Timharwoodx 16:04, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_4

Before anyone objects, I thought I'd add a link to the GeForce4 pages - the most directly comparable product to the 8500 series. Similar features, similar time period. You will note that rather than each and every spin of the core having its own page, all the revisions of the core are covered on a single page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon

If we look at the AMD Athlon, you will again see all the core revisions are covered on a single page. My point is this is not Tim being awkward, I am simply pointing out all other sections of the WIKi group core revisions onto a single page. It is agreed practise to merge common content onto a single page. Timharwoodx 16:31, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Radeon
It seems to me that this article is a duplicate of a subsection of the Radeon page. Wouldn't it make sense to just merge the two and re-direct? -Harmil 03:25, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The 9250
I'm not sure why, but this article fails to mention the 256MB variants of the 9250. I'm using a Tul Corp. Radeon 9250, AGP version, and it has a 128-bit interface and 256MB of DDR memory. Was this particular model just forgotten? 72.161.75.138 03:17, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, that'd be me. Forgot to sign in ^^; T1g4h 03:20, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm sure they will list only the main variants. There are so many subvariants available and it's not possible to list them all. These variations usually have less or more clockspeed, ram speed or amount of ram. --Denniss 04:17, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Fastest open source Linux drivers
It's been many years since the r200 Linux drivers were the fastest open source drivers. These days there are open source r300/r500 drivers and modern Intel GPUs (which have open source drivers) are faster too...

82.69.60.196 (talk) 06:44, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: move to ATI Radeon R200 series: has run 37 days, no discussion in 20 days. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:41, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

ATi Radeon R200 series → Radeon R200 Series – Convention Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 06:41, 8 July 2014 (UTC) --Relisted. Armbrust The Homunculus 08:31, 29 June 2014 (UTC) User:ScotXW t@lk 12:45, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:SURPRISE: indeed other similar articles don't include "ATI". — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 21:32, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I am not sure whether I missed something or other pages moved, but right now former name is consistent throughout ATI's series. Anyway, I strongly hold to maintaining consistency between names of ATI/AMD graphics articles; I propose to abandon this discussion and to nominate all articles from this group, so that single consistent naming scheme could be worked out and enforced. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 17:00, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose should be ATI Radeon R200 series, per the hatnote this article sports due to AMD reusing "200" in a new series. -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 03:14, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Relisting comment. Would be good if we could have some comments on the IP's proposed title, even if those comments are from those who have already supported. Jenks24 (talk) 06:41, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Move to the IP's proposal. It should be "ATI" (not ATi) per ATI Technologies and it does seem necessary for disambiguation. Also "series" should obviously be downcased. Jenks24 (talk) 12:46, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

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