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ATI Technologies All-in-Wonder Radeon 7500 Graphics Card

ATI Technologies All-in-Wonder Radeon 7500 Graphics Card

List Price: $199.99
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This card is very useful
Review: this card can play all the 3d games you want play unreal tournment 2003 at high resolution and it was smooth. Also the remote is cool. But if you want to buy it it sells for less at newegg.com.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Buy!
Review: This card is awesome! With this card combined with my DVD+RW and my video camera alot of my footage from past duty stations and deployments can now be put on DVD. With games the card is excellent. I got NeverWinter Nights turned all the way up.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Very COOL!
Review: This is my first experience with any ATI product, and I have an extremely satisfied experience with this product. Before I bought this card, I was worried that there would be compatibility issue since I saw some comments like that on the Web. However, my experience tells an opposite story. I had a Nvidia Geforce2 Ultra, but it constantly gave me problems such as unable to softly reboot the machine and had to hit reset button everytime. In the end, the Nvidia driver completely messed up Windows2000 and I had to reinstall the system. So, I got a Nvidia Geforce4 MX 440, the same thing happened all over again. With this ATI All-in-Wonder card, however, everything works like a charm.

I can use every feature of the card out of the box, just make sure you download and install the latest drivers from ATI Web site. The image quality of this card is noticebly better than my previous Nvidia cards, much better, I would say. It's great to watch DVD with this card. 3D performance is acceptable. I mean, the framerate is good enough to play most 3D games, and with good visual effect.

The most valuable feature, in my opinion, is its digital video capability. I can playback, capture and edit digital video with this card. It also serves as a TiVo device, with 10GB free hard disk space, I can save more than 3 hours TV shows.

The coolest thing comes with the package is the Wireless remote. I can do whatever a regular mouse can do with this remote, i.e., I can surf the Web, watch DVD etc with this remote. It's very fun to play with.

In summary, I highly recommend this card. If you are not a First-Person-Shooter addict, this is definitely the card to go. Very good value for the price.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Custom Resolutions available.
Review: This line of cards are very good. To find out how to enable all resolutions for your monitor visit rage3d.com. I get all my drivers and card utilities form there. ATI techs visit regularly.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Easy way to capture to VCD!
Review: We have a ton of home videos that we want to share with our families, and copying the videos from tape to tape is a tedious chore. So I thought, why not capture our videos and save them to VCD (Video CD), and later, maybe DVD? Fortunately, this card's digital VCR captures files to VCD format, so after capturing all I need to do is render the files to VCD using third-party software! It even includes video editing software! Now, burning copies of our home videos on VCD only takes about 5 minutes per disk instead of real time (two hours per tape!).

Two reasons why it did not win 5 stars from me: 1) You need to install the drivers in a very specific sequence, or else its digital VCR function will not appear -- this requirement is poorly documented, and 2) I wish it bundled DVD/VCD-rendering/burning software.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not Worth the Trouble
Review: You just want to use your computer as a digital VCR right? It's unlikely you'll be doing so anytime soon with this video card. The TV feature wouldn't work until I uninstalled my NIC and USB. TV and DVD work fine now, but the capture (record) feature doesn't record any audio. Yes, yours may be ok, but here's one more thing: the software that comes with this card is version 7.5, but the current version is 8.5. Owners of the 7500 have to PAY $$$ for this upgrade, whereas owners of higher-end ATI cards get it for free. You want to do business with a company like this, be my guest.


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