ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9800 Pro Review

[dang]

Checkout our latest review of the ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9800 Pro (http://reviews.designtechnica.com/review314.html)Full of features and adaptable to almost all your video graphics, the ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9800 Pro pushes ATI to the top of the video card food chain.

[Ioman]

For under $399 I think this is a great deal for the HTPC user. From a multimedia percpective you are getting a DVD player, Tivo player and a ton of other capabilities.

[questionlp]

Ditto... you also get an awesome graphics card for gaming along with the multimedia features. I'm going for the AIW 9000 Pro not only for cost but also I just don't need the 3D power of the 9700/9800 version of the card.

One thing that I would have liked to see in the review is how well the card actually captured video through the composite or S-Video jack, plus how well TV stations looked and captured... not to mention that most, if not all, reviews miss is processor utilization during video capturing and comparing it against other VIVO solutions.

[questionlp]

I don't know about the requests bit, but the lack of coverage on the capturing and PVR-like software package in ANY All-in-Wonder and/or ANY nVidia Personal Cinema review is a glaring omission and something that I didn't like about the review as-is.

It's almost like doing a review of a RAID controller and only test the hard drives attached to it in JBOD mode only. How about RAID-1, RAID-0, RAID-10/0+1, RAID-5? Rebuild quality, speed and accuracy? Caching options and it's effect on performance. I could go on.

Sorry for the rant but I just had to say it. Flame me as you wish, but the review is just plain lacking and not as good as it could have been. Please don't follow the sad examples set by other shoddy review sites, k?

[Ioman]

Originally posted by questionlp
I don't know about the requests bit, but the lack of coverage on the capturing and PVR-like software package in ANY All-in-Wonder and/or ANY nVidia Personal Cinema review is a glaring omission and something that I didn't like about the review as-is.

It's almost like doing a review of a RAID controller and only test the hard drives attached to it in JBOD mode only. How about RAID-1, RAID-0, RAID-10/0+1, RAID-5? Rebuild quality, speed and accuracy? Caching options and it's effect on performance. I could go on.

Sorry for the rant but I just had to say it. Flame me as you wish, but the review is just plain lacking and not as good as it could have been. Please don't follow the sad examples set by other shoddy review sites, k?


Thanks for the post Linh, I am sure if you didn't care about our site, you would not have posted at all. I have asked Doug to add more information to the review so that other readers can get an idea of the cards multimedia capabilities.