ATI Radeon 32mb All-In-Wonder NTSC SDRAM AGP

Ricoh MediaMaster MP7083A

January 2, 2001

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• Reviewed by: chris563

  Strengths: Plays great games (no problems with hitman 2 or nba live 2003).

  Weaknesses: Wish it came with a remote wonder!

  Overall: I have the pci version of this card because when I bought my computer I didn't know what agp was! **** compaq! lol. Oh well. At least this card works great. Tv works, and I can play games, and when someone notices a difference of quality of the video between their computer and mine, I am reminded of how good this card is! I will probably upgrade to ATI all in wonder 9800 in the future, but this card was good and did what I wanted it to do when I got it. :)

• Reviewed by: billyman

  Strengths: A lot of features, stable performance (for me in XP Pro), relatively affordable.

  Weaknesses: ATI tech support is non-existant, TV-On-Demand audio is awful, some TV channels are not clear.

  Overall: I bought this card specifically to record home movies. The install went smooth (upgraded from Nvidia TNT2), no obvious compatability issues. However, when using the video capture utility (TV-On-Demand), I noticed a loud "hiss" on the audio. I went to ATI's website and found that this is a common problem. 1.5 - 2 years later, the status still has not changed. I have contacted ATI (which was not toll-free AND I had to call Canada) which was of no help. Finally, my last complaint is the TV tuner doesn't seem to be without it's flaws. When watching TV, I notice channels 09, 10, 11, 25, 62, 68, 78 all have bad reception ranging from annoying to unwatchable. These same channels come in crystal clear when the coax is plugged into a television. On a positive note, the card works great for everyday display adapter needs. I have it set to 1024x768 32-bit color @ 100Hz refresh rate and it never misses a beat. I am not a gamer, so I can't comment on how it performs in that arena. Overall, the card is ok. However, I doubt I'll buy anymore ATI product (simply because it's too difficult to get support and when you do get it, it's not much help).

• Reviewed by: yudd

  Strengths: Good card, lots of features got it for $86.00 on eBay.

  Weaknesses: Driver support by ATI and Guide plus cratches and this card is not compatible wiht Windows XP.

  Overall: STAY AWAY form this card if you are going to run it with Windows XP. Upon installation, this cards is detected and Windows installs all the drivers. When you ut in the ati cd to install ati drivers and software, the cd doesnt have drivers for XP. So i got to thte website and i donwload Catalyst software. i install it and it deosnt work Upon bootup, the card is not detected by the system with the catalyst dirvers. After trying manually to insatlla every ati component, still not luck and a dozen installs , reinstalls , restarts and retores, still no luck, im gonna sell this card NOW and get an Ati 7500 all in wnder which has support for XP.

• Reviewed by: Gunball

  Strengths: Everything-in-one Graphic Card

  Weaknesses: TV Graphics

  Overall: I had this Graphic Card since August. I live in Canada and am 13 years old. This graphic card is recommend for regular gamers. ATI-All-In Wonder Radeon can distinguish the shadings and is good for 3-D's... I usually watch TV just because of it. I recommend if you watch TV, DVD or VCD, you should minimize for the best result for the picture graphic. When maximized, the picture looks blury and also, you can see the small squares. When playing games, the pictures are fairly smooth and you can't really see the bumps. The cost of the all in wonder is excellent and there is a Video-in. Also, The TV tuner is the reason why this is rated number one in PC World for 3 months.

• Reviewed by: joelahey

  Strengths: Very good card

  Weaknesses: some of the software is a little clunky

  Overall: Does what the hype indicates. I am not a serious gamer but bought for the video editing component and the TV DV features. I am pleased with the card and would buy again. The one time I e-mailed customer support they did not respond.