Video CArd recomendation

[scott408]

I currently have an old Matrox Mystique Video card and a Hollywood Magic Plus Mpeg Card. what I want to be able to do with my new video card is video capture, 3d, and dvd player and be able to send out to the TV (RCA cables). Anyways, I was looking at the ATi- All in Wonder 128. It's AGP which is a plus because it will open up a pci slot for me. The only thing I'm concern with is the 3d part and the driver part. Is the 3D part enough to run most current games? In others words, how does it compare to the Nvidia Geforce -2 MX? Also how are the driver for this card? I remember people used to tell me that ATI drivers were buggy. They improve right? What about future support? One thing I like about Nvidia chipset and my matrox video card is that it's supported in windows me nativly.

So should I just get a Geforce Nvidia-2 MX 3d card and a separate card for capture? thanks

 

[Youareaweaklink]

Gaming wise a All in Wonder 128 will crawl. It does have good video capture and DVD playback.

My suggestion would be to get a Radeon All in Wonder. It give you great gaming with current and future games, is the most complete Direct X 8 capable card out right now, and has great video capture to include MPEG-1 and MPEG-2.

If you are going to pay the price to get a MX and a seperate card for capture, you might as well just get a $215.00 AIW Radeon.

People will bash it about how bad the drivers are, but most of them have never used a Radeon card, and just want to bash ATI. Do a search here in the video forum and you will find a good deal of information on the Radeon and Radeon AIW.

Good luck.

 

[Youareaweaklink]

Tom's video capture and card review

Anandtech review

 

[jsm]

I own a Asus V7700 Deluxe and a ATI All In Wonder Radeon. I personally like the features that the ATI card has to offer over Asus Live (the capture app for the Asus).

I haven't had any stability with the ATI card unless I try to run the PVR functions (so I can do TiVO like shyt). That basically stops the machine from responding. That makes me happy in the opposite sense.

Still, the functionality of the ATI destroys the Asus V7700.

Looking at Toms review, it is obvious the review was done in the San Jose area by the station listing. The man's a local. Now, all I have to do is find out where he lives so I can see all the new hardware before he puts up articles on the web.