phenderson
Diamond Member
I am expecting an ATI AIW 9700 pro, here pretty soon. I just paid $295.00 for it.
I am thinking that for a married man with 3 children, I might have paid just a little too much for a video card.
My primary concern is that I wanted the card to replace my Sapphire 9600 and my ATI 7500 AIW. I had been using the 7500 within my media server for two purposes...
1) TV out to bigscreen TV via RF multimedia transceivers and receivers (sends wireless A/V signal from card to TV in other room).
2) Streaming media. Before I put the 7500 AIW inside of one of my servers, I had it running inside of one of my machines as a streaming media machine. I had no problem plugging the computer into a cable outlet and then streaming cable channels across my wired (10/100 cat5) and my wireless (11mbps) network. It was really cool being able to watch TV in my garage, on my laptop or outside of the house, as long as I encoded at 250-300 kbps with 320x240 or 640x480 resolution. My next project was to use lower kbps so that I can view contents on my Dell Axim....
So I had a notion. Why not get rid of the streaming media server seeing as how once I moved it into my server room, there was not a coax\cable outlet present meaning I was going to have to run coax cable all the way from my daughters room to my server room.
Why not just upgrade my PC from ATI Sapphire 9600 to a nice 9700 pro AIW.
But now that I have ordered the card specifically for gaming and editing, I am thinking:
Should I not just keep the 9600 I have and spend maybe $50-75.00 on a nice TV Tuner card with good video capture capabilities???
I am thinking that for a married man with 3 children, I might have paid just a little too much for a video card.
My primary concern is that I wanted the card to replace my Sapphire 9600 and my ATI 7500 AIW. I had been using the 7500 within my media server for two purposes...
1) TV out to bigscreen TV via RF multimedia transceivers and receivers (sends wireless A/V signal from card to TV in other room).
2) Streaming media. Before I put the 7500 AIW inside of one of my servers, I had it running inside of one of my machines as a streaming media machine. I had no problem plugging the computer into a cable outlet and then streaming cable channels across my wired (10/100 cat5) and my wireless (11mbps) network. It was really cool being able to watch TV in my garage, on my laptop or outside of the house, as long as I encoded at 250-300 kbps with 320x240 or 640x480 resolution. My next project was to use lower kbps so that I can view contents on my Dell Axim....
So I had a notion. Why not get rid of the streaming media server seeing as how once I moved it into my server room, there was not a coax\cable outlet present meaning I was going to have to run coax cable all the way from my daughters room to my server room.
Why not just upgrade my PC from ATI Sapphire 9600 to a nice 9700 pro AIW.
But now that I have ordered the card specifically for gaming and editing, I am thinking:
Should I not just keep the 9600 I have and spend maybe $50-75.00 on a nice TV Tuner card with good video capture capabilities???
