Cheap ATI ALL-IN-WONDER VE 64M PCI NA (Electronics) Price

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I'm completely satisfied!
If you are looking for a PCI graphic card with TV option, your search should stop here. This ATI AIW 64MB PCI card was a perfect solution for my Dell dimension 2400 XP home (it doesn't have AGP). First, I disabled my integrated display- installed the card- and the program/driver from the included CD (I didn't have to download from ATI), and I was watching TV on my computer in no time, and I love the GUIDE PLUS+ feature where you can click the TV program guide to select channels!! I'm sure there are plenty of powerful graphic cards out there for hardcore gamers, but this one does the job for me perfectly.

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Unfortunately, it doesn't do the dishes too...
No, not everyone can afford a nice beefy graphics card to show off at the LAN party, and sometimes we can't even afford a computer with an AGP slot inside it. In which case, this card ought to fill up one of your PCI slots nicely.

The graphics boost is what you'd expect. But you know how these things are with computers - this card will be a proverbial goliath in less than a year. In the meantime, it should be enough to let you play graphic-intensive games with all your buddies until you've saved enough money for your next upgrade.

Having video input and output is nice. Since I can run wires to the back of TV, my computer serves as the de-facto DVD player of the house. The inputs are useful to friends with camcorders - though I personally haven't had much use for them.

But you know, it's nice to be able to watch my favorite shows on my own when the group concensus won't let me do so on the normal TV. Why pay for Tivo when you've got all of the same functionality right here? Just be sure you have ample hard drive space while you're recording (sadly, the included software won't let you record your shows straight to DivX).

Bottom line, it's not the greatest when it comes to just the graphics, but it'll certainly get the job done, and it'll do it with enough nice quirks to leave you feeling oddly satisfied with your purchase.

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be very careful
I have a dell 600sc (a server machine). The ATI install
program either (I tried about 4 diffrent version, on the CD
and their web site)
1) hung the machine hard (had to reset)
2) complained I wasn't the administrator (I was)
3) ran for a little bit and then terminated doing nothing

I tried it in a gateway 6400 (another server machine) and it
seems to work.

All times I tried it with windows xp -- eventually I'll use linux but I like to try out boards with the "vendor supplied"
software -- ATI may be the exeception to that rule.

On dells web site in the customer forums, I read about others who had the same problem...