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7500 AIW review

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January 23, 2002 12:18:51 AM

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The "little" All-in-Wonder card is meant to be one thing before all others - $200 cheaper than its bigger sibling. Let me qualify that statement to put it in perspective. While it does deliver on the lower price, this remains the card's only real advantage over the 8500 DV. Not only does the AIW 7500 lack a firewire port, but its 3D performance is also markedly lower than that of the bigger model. And yet, the competition's GeForce 2 MX based "Personal Cinema" solutions (for example, the Visiontek "XTASY Everything 5564" for $180, V I S I O N T E K) still rank at least a class below the ATi card, in performance as well as in features.

For everyday use, the conventional TV-tuner isn't the disadvantage it initially seems to be. Quite the opposite; it runs a lot cooler than that of the 8500 DV. In this respect, at least, the AIW 7500 is the better choice. Still, all things considered, the RADEON 8500 DV retains the title of optimal multimedia board hands-down, leaving the AIW 7500 to play the role of the bargain model.

I think these concluding paragraphs are weak. To me the AIW 7500 is an "optimal" multimedia graphics card because at half the price of the 8500 DV it has more than half the performance. Isn't value-for-money part of the equation for determining an optimum choice?


<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by dosdan on 01/22/02 09:44 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

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January 23, 2002 1:48:16 AM

i dont know about all these winbench and quake three socres with all these souped up cpu's and overclocked chips. can anyone answer me this question. Which ATI video cards rank both above and then below a geforce 2 gts 32ddr?

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