What to buy: ATI AIW Radeon, or GF2/KyroII + other vid capture?

[Sandivar]

I'm trying to decide what video card to upgrade to: an ATI All in Wonder Radeon 32MB DDR or a GeForce2.

I would like decent gaming ability; I don't have to have ultra fast frame rates, but I'm tired of not being able to play games because of my current weak, non-3D video card (Intel i740).

The trouble is, I want the ability to pipe my Hi8mm camcorder footage into my computer and do some online video editing (thus the ATI AIW).

So, ATI AIW or Kyro II/GeForce2/Other plus a different video capture solution?

I'm currently only running a CeleronII 600 at 900 (can go 1 GHz) and 320MB RAM.

Any suggestions?

 

[lifeguard1999]

A Retail Radeon 64MB VIVO is available for $150. A Retail Radeon AIW can be found for $160 on-line. All the AIW gets you versus the VIVO is the TV tuner/TIVO/Guide+ functions. The new AIW Radeon 8500 DV should be available at $420 shortly. the 8500DV has Firewire capability, a remote control, a faster GPU, etc.

I guess it depends partly on how much you want to pay.

 

[BlakkIce]

i would say a Radon 8500DV it looks to be a great all in one card bbut it has yet to be proved

 

[halldav3]

Go with the AIW, but only if you plan on capturing to low-res (352x240) since the AIW doesn't have hardware compression. You would need 1Ghz+ to capture at 720x480 using the ATI software. NewEgg has the retail version for $159

 

[lifeguard1999]

There is a post in the Hot Deal forum where you can get a retail Radeon AIW for $150 from Dell.