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| ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 32 MB DDR The Return of the ATi-Knights | |
| (Review by MS) |
Conclusion
ATi has come out with one hell of a video card. The bundled features of the All-In-Wonder make it the probably most versatile card for video editing and DVD, the integrated TV tuner and the Rage Theater chip with its SPDIF interface provide additional goodies. Together with the bundled software, the hardware appears to be worth its price, even though it is quite high.
On the contrary, it is safe to say that the Radeon has the better desktop display. Don't get me wrong, 3D capabilities are important and have driven computer technology to where we are now but let's not forget that most of the time we are using a 2D display and here is where the Radeon truly excels.
A word on overclocking
Being equipped with the puniest 6ns Hyundai DDR chips, what could one expect from the Radeon in terms of overclocking. It turns out, that there is a lot of margin since the Radeon was running stable through most applications even at 210/210 MHz overclocked settings. For any card rated at 166 MHz, this is quite an astounding accomplishment, especially, since the performance increases almost linearly with the frequency settings up to a point of diminishing returns. I wouldn't advise everyone to push the card to the absolute limit, there is enough horse power already there but if you really need to do it, enter at your own risk and don't complain if things go haywire.
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