just installed my aiw radeon-woohoo!

[Big Bwana]

wow, I've been using first an aiw 128, then a geforce sdr, but I have to say that for 2d quality, the radeon is the handsdown winner! it's like the text on the screen is leaping out at me<ducks>

oh, and 3d performance ain't bad either

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[Mday]

the aiw 8500 should rock.

based on the radeon2 chip, with firewire.

 

[Big Bwana]

oh I agree...hopefully the price won't rock people's bank accounts, too!

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[Raspewtin]

8500 has firewire?

 

[majewski9]

Radeon 8500 dv is aiw + firewire!

 

[nuttervm]

i just got an aiw radeon last week and i love mine too

 

[Raspewtin]

oh the 8500DV u are talking about. thats too steep for me

 

[WHipLAsh13]

I heard that these boards can act like a Tivo. Anyone used this for that purpose? How much hd space would say an hour show use up and how is the quality of the record? (ie screen size and resolution)

 

[GTaudiophile]

The new Radeon 8500DV will probably be close to 50% of my next system's cost at around $500. My plan is to build an nForce 420D/Palomino-based system in November...if everything with these new technologies works out.

 

[Big Bwana]

with my aiw 128, I could choose different levels of compression and quality to tailor the bitrate on recordings. I can't actually remember what specific numbers were (been a while), but I do recall that when recording using the highest quality level, I'd loose lots of frames when recording to my ata33 drive, but none when saving to my lvd drive.

now, that could have been issue with my rig, but I remember the quality of the capture was very nice and I've read that the rage theater chip on the aiw pros and radeons are supposed to do an even better job.

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[nuttervm]

i use mine like a tivo, its great.

the size of the file is totally dependent upon the quality you want. the preset mode for 'good quality' which is pretty kickass requires about 3 gigs of space for an hour. i know you can use much less space at the lower qualities. i can tell you that the level i use it at is indistinguishable from realtime tv (meaning its pretty damn good) i'll have to try it out and let you know about the other levels. i have a 40 gig drive that sits largely empty so i just use that and dont worry about size there are settings to make it to VCD quality, ill play with that first since that seems like the most useful option.

one thing is make sure you have dma enabled on teh hard drive, it makes a big difference.

 

[nuttervm]

well i checked it out and the program estimates that 'good quality' gives me like 12 hours of recording time on my disk, whereas vcd quality gives 67 hours. considering each of those 12 hours is worth 3 gigs... do a little math and you can imagine that each of the 67 hours would take up roughly 600 megs or so. (makes sense, size of a cd