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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: By Bdubslawman (Wisconsin United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: ATI All-in-Wonder X1900 256 MB PCI Express Video Card (Personal Computers) SOME CORRECTIONS OF OTHER POSTS OR CLARRIFICATIONS:
Mark Spray: "Using this in an ASUS 8n-SLI premium. TV sucks. Goes black, have to shutdown restart. The TV saves xx minutes of TV letting you go back. This will access HD constantly causing an annoying click. No way to disable the caching of video for playback. Dissapointed in the layout of the TV controls. Have had Happagues and Voodoo 3500's, loved their TV capabilities. Buy a non-wonder card then get a seperate TV card from Happague." You are either an ANTI-ATI person or you have no business building a computer by yourself. I must assume that b/c of the ASUS mobo being a great mobo & the ATI AIW card being equally great. You clearly need different drivers, either you need "newer drivers" or you need to roll back to a previous version(s), Impossible for me to tell over the internet. Second, There are multiple "layouts" to use the TV tuner functions. You can use Catalyst's built in media center which...Read more 3 of 4 people found the following review helpful: By Ernest T "Ernest" (Ozone) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: ATI All-in-Wonder X1900 256 MB PCI Express Video Card (Personal Computers) I put this card in a new AMD dual core system. It is the card you want if you do a lot of graphics work, video conversion, etc., because the card has everything you need built right in including the TV tuner. It comes with connectors for everything that you might want to hook up to it (TV, Radio, Video camera, etc.). The one glaring exception is that the unit comes without a DVI connector for CRT monitors. Why include all the other stuff and leave out a $2.00 part that many of us will have to have?
For the most part the card works well, and graphics are fast enough for everything I do. One problem that I have had is that the card and/or software associated with the card causes occasional system hang-ups and crashes. I suspect a conflict with something else on my system, but have so far been unable to localize the problem. By PAF "Jalopedro" (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: ATI All-in-Wonder X1900 256 MB PCI Express Video Card (Personal Computers) When I purchased my latest Dell PC I got the dual TV tuner Windows Media Center. It was a big disappointment. Poor video quality, and the software is dumbed down to where it is only for cable TV input. There is no provision for Satellite TV or connecting a video camera. So I bought the ATI All-in-Wonder X1900 256 MB PCI Express Video Card, my 3rd ATI AIW card, hoping this one would deliver what was missing in my previous experience with the first two. My Objective: Cleanly and easily capture video off of TV and home video in a compact, transferable format such as Mpeg. To date this card has not met this objective. It does work, the video image quality is better than the card Dell provided, 3D gaming works well, and I don't have lockups and installation problems mentioned by other reviewers. However, I did have to buy a new 500W Power supply for the computer. I have a dual-core 2.8 Ghz Pentium system with 1gig of RAM.. The card...Read more |