Just as an update, I successfully flashed my Radeon 8500 today. It's basically just as good as my GeForce 3. I couldn't tell the difference in any of my games. The only difference is that it SHOULD support dual monitors, and probably (hopefully?) S-video out as well. Also, it doesn't suffer from the horizontal lines problem.
Now I'm going to get the official ATI drivers and also try messing around with the clock speed a bit to see if I can improve performance at all. I'll end up selling one of the two at least... in fact, there's a good chance I'll sell both and get a GeForce 4 Titanium since that one seems like the best bang for the buck today.
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