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ATIAIW750064A card questions...
I'm looking at getting my girlfreind a capture card so that she can
pipe video from our surveillance cam and also from our C-Band system to her computer monitor. Without getting into details, we have our reasons for needing this. Anyways, pcprogress.com has the ATI ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 7500 AGP RETAIL VERSION 64MB DDR card for $134 US, and I was wondering just how good a card this is. She presently has a Voodoo 3 AGP card, and only uses the card for Windows tasks and the occasional Q3A game. Therefore, almost any card would be an improvement graphics-wise. So long as it meets or exceeds the Voodoo, then it's fine. What is more of a big deal to me is how well this thing will capture. I currently have a Visiontek Xtasy Everything Geforce2 MX400 card in my machine, and despite the occasional lack of capture software support, I'm pleased enough with it. If this ATI card meets or exceeds (which I am almost sure it does) the performance of the Visiontek card, then it sounds perfect for her. Here's some specifics... Anyone know of any issues I will face with trying this ATI card in the following machine specs? Her machine consists of: Windows 98 (Not SE) FIC VA-503+ Motherboard AMD K6-2 400MHz CPU 64MB RAM ~5.5GB free on a 15GB C drive, one HD only She's got no free IRQs left, which is why I am looking to replace existing hardware rather than add a capture-only card. The motherboard only supports AGP 2x. She has a Zoom 56K modem, which when I tried to install that same model # modem in mine with the Visiontek vid card, it wouldn't even boot let alone run. It would be good to know if anyone has heard of similar problems with this ATI card. Anyways, if anyone could give thier impressions of this card, I'd love to hear about it. I've got some time yet before I make a move, so of course I'm also open to suggestions for alternative solutions. Basically, I just need decent graphics performance and decent capture and MUST have some ability to display a video source full screen. Also, it would help if the card does not suffer from Macrovision insanity like the Visiontek card sometimes can. I had to revert to older drivers with my Visiontek card or sometimes the Macrovision wipes out my capturing even just copying camcorder footage. That's all I know to ask for now... MUCH thanks to anyone who can help out!! - NR "The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?" - Stephen Hawking --------------------------------------- Our Website: http://niter417.virtualave.net/ Message Boards Main: http://niter417.virtualave.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl Laser Discussion: http://niter417.virtualave.net/cgi-b...l?board=Lasers Electronics Discussion: http://niter417.virtualave.net/cgi-b...aBB.pl?board=3 Winemaking Discussion: http://niter417.virtualave.net/cgi-b...aBB.pl?board=8 Our Webcam: http://web.infoave.net/~missy1/cam/webcam.html |
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:59:01 -0500, NightRunner
wrote: I'm looking at getting my girlfreind a capture card so that she can pipe video from our surveillance cam and also from our C-Band system to her computer monitor. Without getting into details, we have our reasons for needing this. Anyways, pcprogress.com has the ATI ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 7500 AGP RETAIL VERSION 64MB DDR card for $134 US, and I was wondering just how good a card this is. She presently has a Voodoo 3 AGP card, and only uses the card for Windows tasks and the occasional Q3A game. Therefore, almost any card would be an improvement graphics-wise. So long as it meets or exceeds the Voodoo, then it's fine. What is more of a big deal to me is how well this thing will capture. I currently have a Visiontek Xtasy Your girlfriend's computer isn't powerful enough to capture with the AIW Radeon 7500 without dropping a not insignificant number of frames, especially if the computer is used for other tasks while capturing. Everything Geforce2 MX400 card in my machine, and despite the occasional lack of capture software support, I'm pleased enough with it. If this ATI card meets or exceeds (which I am almost sure it does) the performance of the Visiontek card, then it sounds perfect for her. Here's some specifics... Anyone know of any issues I will face with trying this ATI card in the following machine specs? Her machine consists of: Windows 98 (Not SE) FIC VA-503+ Motherboard AMD K6-2 400MHz CPU I used to run a very similar system (VA-503A motherboard) with the original AIW Radeon. The only workable way of capturing was with a Huappauge WinTV card and Virtualdub using Huffyuv lossless compression, trading off less CPU usage for a larger capture file. I could capture with fewer than 10 dropped frames per hour even while using the computer for other tasks. The only and annoying problem was an occasional computer lockup while capturing. 64MB RAM ~5.5GB free on a 15GB C drive, one HD only She's got no free IRQs left, which is why I am looking to replace existing hardware rather than add a capture-only card. The motherboard only supports AGP 2x. She has a Zoom 56K modem, which when I tried to install that same model # modem in mine with the Visiontek vid card, it wouldn't even boot let alone run. It would be good to know if anyone has heard of similar problems with this ATI card. She really should get a modern motherboard to rid herself of interrupt conflicts. Anyways, if anyone could give thier impressions of this card, I'd love I like the card. The image quality is great, and capturing works fine as long as you have a fast enough computer. to hear about it. I've got some time yet before I make a move, so of course I'm also open to suggestions for alternative solutions. Basically, I just need decent graphics performance and decent capture and MUST have some ability to display a video source full screen. Also, it would help if the card does not suffer from Macrovision insanity like the Visiontek card sometimes can. I had to revert to older drivers with my Visiontek card or sometimes the Macrovision wipes out my capturing even just copying camcorder footage. That's all I know to ask for now... MUCH thanks to anyone who can help out!! - NR "The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?" - Stephen Hawking --------------------------------------- Our Website: http://niter417.virtualave.net/ Message Boards Main: http://niter417.virtualave.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl Laser Discussion: http://niter417.virtualave.net/cgi-b...l?board=Lasers Electronics Discussion: http://niter417.virtualave.net/cgi-b...aBB.pl?board=3 Winemaking Discussion: http://niter417.virtualave.net/cgi-b...aBB.pl?board=8 Our Webcam: http://web.infoave.net/~missy1/cam/webcam.html |
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