Replaced my X1900 AIW with a Saphire 4890 and a Visiontek 650 Pro PCIe.
I picked up Need for Speed Shift and installed it when I had my X1900 AIW installed, the game was almost un-driveable. I did manage to come in second in one race but that was because I managed to get in front of all of the other cars and my video smoothed out a bit.
Dropped in the 4890 and the game smoothed out so much that I came in first seven times in a row. I wasn't sure if the down-clocked memory was going to let me see as big of an improvement as I did (populating all four memory slots knocked my system memory speed down from DDR400 to DDR333).
Since I'm still running Windows XP, the Visiontek 650 isn't picking up any QAM signals off of the cable so I'm only using the analog tuner. I rarely use the tuner on the card anymore, I usually use the AV IN. I've got the AV IN connected to the cable box so that I can watch TV while at my computer.
My system still does what it used do with the AIW but better.
Life is good.
I picked up Need for Speed Shift and installed it when I had my X1900 AIW installed, the game was almost un-driveable. I did manage to come in second in one race but that was because I managed to get in front of all of the other cars and my video smoothed out a bit.
Dropped in the 4890 and the game smoothed out so much that I came in first seven times in a row. I wasn't sure if the down-clocked memory was going to let me see as big of an improvement as I did (populating all four memory slots knocked my system memory speed down from DDR400 to DDR333).
Since I'm still running Windows XP, the Visiontek 650 isn't picking up any QAM signals off of the cable so I'm only using the analog tuner. I rarely use the tuner on the card anymore, I usually use the AV IN. I've got the AV IN connected to the cable box so that I can watch TV while at my computer.
My system still does what it used do with the AIW but better.
Life is good.
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