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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: Great graphics, TV tuner very much improved.

Weakness: Had to download the driver updates to get it to work.

I bought this and a hdtv wonder card at the same time. I had to figure out how to get both to work together by myself. The installation cd that came with the card was only used for verification to download the dvd codec. The tech support webpage was almost no help at all, and made a relatively easy installation difficult. I knew it would be difficult to install when I bought the card, but my experience with other ATI products, the specs of the X800-XT and the price made the choice easy. I am very satisfied with this card.

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you gotta love it..

Strengths: Fast, fast, fast...increases overall PC performance, beautiful graphics, low power consumption

Weakness: nothing major...

I have emachine T3256, not a powerful let alone just a gaming machine what so ever... Before I bought this card I upgraded my RAM to 1.5GB hoping it would give a little extra boost to my fairly average budget PC. Well, I must say I couldn't really tell the difference to say the least ;<


Then it came AIW 800XT, bang! As soon as I put this card in my PC boots 2X faster and the machine just flys!
It definitely freed up 64mb of memory that was allocated to integrated graphics card on my mobo.
I can max out all the settings when I play games (not a hardcore gamer but I do play a lot of mmorpg games like EQII, WOW...) and this card totally opened my eyes to whole new level of graphic details I didn't know it existed!

here is my 3Dmakrs score for your reference:

3DMarks2001SE: 19,805
3DMarks03: 10,469

I'm not too crazy about other features that came w/ this card although that's one of the reasons why people buy this card, the AIW features.
But it's only because I'm not a big fan of multimedia around your PC guy.

All in all this is the best graphics card I've ever owned. oh, did I mention it runs great off of my stock 300watt power supply? Well, it does :)

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Great card but it could have been better...

Strengths: Close to top-of-line gaming graphics. TV is a nice feature.

Weakness: NOT even close to real Tivo. Remote Wonder is a complete waste if you have Dish/DirectTV/Digital Cable. Can't run F.E.A.R. at max settings.

I bought this card thinking "Oh how wonderful it will be to have TIVO on my computer!" The DVR-like function of this card is worthless. It is only good if you have basic cable. The 90% of us that have Dish/Digital Cable will find ourselves using our normal remote, and putting the Remote "Wonder" in a drawer. I have a Dell 2405FPW LCD monitor and it has PIP which I used to watch TV before I bought the All-in-wonder. Honestly the PIP of the Dell's S-video input was better quality than the ATI TV software, but being able to resize the TV window any way I want and pausing and rewinding live TV are nice All-in-Wonder features. I would not buy this again if I could pause and rewind life.

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ATI 800 xl All in Wonder

Strengths: Good fast graphics

Weakness: Poor TV tuner and installation process; weak drivers.

Had it about 5 months. Installation was a pain; have to install multiple pieces in right order to get all to work and no explanation given. Nvidia cards are much easier to set up. Had a 9600 All in wonder first and found out after trying to set up that it didn't work with USB sound cards. Called tech support and they advised they had been in meeting that day and figured it out.

ATI drivers are unstable. I have latest drivers and still get an occasional crash from the vpu during game play or the TV tuner program. Remote stopped working without warning but says it is okay. TV guide often loads and say the day I am looking at is missing.

Rarely use the TV Tuner anymore- shutters occasionally even without other tasks running on a pretty fast system.

Recommend anyone buy TV tuner separate and get graphics card separate too. Been building and installing PCs for 25 years and can't say ATI has the hit the mark on their driver or installation interface.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: Flawless gaming experience, runs beautifully as a card, TV/radio/remote features to boot!

Weakness: A bit pricey, bundled software is second-rate, some minor driver issues that need to be resolved.

Blazingly fast card for everything out there today even after maxing out all the settings. Counter-Strike: Source runs at 70 fps with 16x AF and 8x AA at 1280 x 1024, with all other settings maxed. This card is unbelievable! It uses less power, takes up less space, runs quieter and is the most powerful card I have ever owned. No need to overclock, but I hear it’s great at that, too.

Specifics:
If you are getting the All-in-Wonder feature to play consoles, try something else. There is a half-second delay between button-mashing and response onscreen, which makes every game almost unplayable.

For image quality on the tuner, this card is amazing. Once you get good reception the TV looks awesome at any resolution.

The FM radio is a cool feature, but the included radio antenna or wire is horrid. Stations are hard to pick up without major static.

The bundled software that ATI makes is equally bad; it took me three days to learn even the most basic setting. There are not many advanced options, and lack of flexibility is annoying to say the least.

I hear great things about the RemoteWonder II that comes with the card, but I have yet to figure them all out. My only complaint is that it is taller, wider and almost as long when laid flat with my entire case (shuttle). You need two hands to really use it.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: AWESOME!! Ripped up the benchmarks, lots of options for TV and multimedia. Now has FM reciever. I like the new domino block breakout boxes. LOTS of accessories! Free HDTV domino block (just pay S/H)

Weakness: not a X850 XT or X850 PE. Stock HS/F kinda sucks. Re-uses old Theater 200 chip. Does not come with any games OR demos! Was looking forward to seeing Ruby again...

This is a SWEEEET lookin' card with all the "gold" trimmings. It's like "Pimp My GFX Card" ATI!! The box itself weighed like a gold brick let alone the card. When you pick up the card you can feel how solid, heavy, it is. ATI improved the HS/F design but it's still kinda illogical. It should follow the Arctic Cooling designs... blow air OUT of the case. Card performs great on benchmarks!! Beats my old ATI AIW 9800 Pro hands down. I can play games at maxed outsettings and the card doesn't even break a sweat. Kinda scary if you think about it. It came with a ton of accessories for all the multimedia stuff. I like the stackable "domino" breakout boxes. They made the back end of the card less crowded with connections. .or rather pulled the connections out further away from the computer. There's still a ton of wires to hook up. I was really bummed that they didn't upgrade the Theater chip. It still re-uses the old Theater 200 chip and not the new Theater 550 chip that's on the TV Wonder Elite. The difference is that the Theater 550 has full h/w MPEG2 encoding while the Theater 200 only does "h/w assisted" MPEG encoding. Oh well... it's still as good as the AIW 9800 Pro. Great card for people into multimedia hobby and hard core gaming.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: The All-In-Wonder X800 XT is every bit as fast as a standard Radeon X800 XT, and offers 85%-95% of the performance of ATI's current flagship Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition.

Weakness: The only things that detract from the All-In-Wonder X800 XT is the slight lag that when switching between TV channels and the fact that this card is only available for AGP.

The bottom line is that the ALL-IN-WONDER X800 XT is the highest-performing, most feature-packed, sacrifice-free ALL-IN-WONDER product ATI has produced to date. This is the new benchmark in multimedia performance cards, and while its $400 price tag may seem a little high at first, when you factor in everything you’re getting, it’s actually a pretty solid value.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: Serious video card for serious gamer, TV/FM functions are nice addons

Weakness: Expensive, sub-par TV software

The main reason I got this ATI AIW X800 XT is to play popular 3D games at MAX settings, namely
Half-Life 2/Counter Strike: Source. And it did what it advertised plus more.

Benchmark wise, it performs approximately 2x as fast as ATI9800Pro, which is a generation older
than current X800 technology.

I could gain decent 30-60fps and sharp image using max settings in hl2, comparing to sub-30fps
using the lowest possible settings with ATI9800Pro.

It also had TV capability, which could turn your PC into Tivo-like devices. Also the TV viewing
software that came with this card is POS, I think one could always upgrade to Windows Media Center
for better interface and controlability.

All in all, I would recommend this card because of its excellent performance/price ratio and TV capability.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: Gaming performance is outrageous, no worries there. Simultaneous DVI and VGA is awesome.

Weakness: The TV tuner is different. Theres a slight delay in processing the signal. I will hear an echo because of the ATI's tuning latency. Switching channels also slower.

Generally is a superb video card. Great buyThe digital sound is generally an improvement (no more analog conversion and wires to connect)Simultaneous DVI and VGA is awesome.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: Lightning Fast!!

Weakness: Connector for AV plugs seems a bit flimsy

Excellent card which I upgraded from the AIW 9600 PRO. I went from a 12,000 to a 22,000 on 3Dmark 2001. You also get a free HDTV expansion pack with coupon in box.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: Super fast. TV and radio features are nice additions.

Weakness: Recent software updates have improved the sound synchronization issue associated with the TV features, but it still is not fully corrected.

This is an unbelievably fast video card. It allows us to run all the latest games at 1024 x 768 with all the graphical features turned up. It's amazing how much better games look with antialiasing, etc. cranked up. The TV/PVR and radio features are great pluses for the card as well. It does have a problem (for one or two seconds) synchronizing sound with video every now and then, but recent software updates have improved this to the point where it is very infrequent and not really a significant distraction. Great card! Well worth it if you can get it for under $300!

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: Blazing fast performance even with quality settings set to max..3 times as fast as my other 9600 AIW...

Weakness: Unaccepable performance if you use it as a gaming console due to the lag...and channel switching is 1/2 sec lag....supplied software is sub par.

Strange how my older AIW Radeon 7500 on my other computer suffers none of the lag that this card does...perhaps maybe newer is not always better...but as far as gaming goes...ya can't go wrong with this card.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: Still AGP so it can be passed down to the next computer.

Weakness: None so far that I can tell.

I picked this card up mainly because it was the fastest AGP card I could find. I already had a 6800 and this card is roughly 50% faster with everything cracked up. The fan is also quieter than on my 6800 which is nice.

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ATI Video Card

Awesome card with all the bells and whistles for home theater PC use. It has both DVI and Analog monitor connections along with TV input and output. With the latest ATI drivers it works like a champ. Great card albeit a little expensive.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: High performance graphics, TV tuner, FM tuner, great software package, and RemoteWonder II with great range.

Weakness: Slight lag in changing TV channels. Software package does not include any gaming software to "hi-lite" the graphics technology of the Radeon X800 XT Visual processor unit.

Fantastic graphics! Outstanding 3D performance in both DX9 and OpenGL applications. ATI is now using input/output dongles which look like "stackable dominos" which make connecting inputs and outputs very easy. ATI has included an excellent software package that allows you to capture, edit and convert videos to DVD for use in home and in creating web presentations, but does not include any gaming software.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: lighting fast, ultra speed, multimedia entertainment capability

Weakness: price, weak media center software offering

i bought this x800 xt aiw to replace my 2yr old 9800 pro.
at 300$ price tag after rebate, this card is well worth the money spent.
tv tuner is just a plus.

gaming experience such as hl2 and doom3 is vastly improved, especially
on my wide screen 1680x1050 dell lcd, and being able to use 4xAA makes
game graphic as sharp as realworld pictures.

i hope ati could tune up their software offering like media center / raedon driver,
so user can make the most out of this great card.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: Extremely good gfx performance, one of the best single card solutions compact card combines many features into one package (TV, FM, VIVO, HD, Dual Display) into single slot solution, saves space

Weakness: not the latest and greatest TV tuner (Theater 200 instead of theater 550 chip) not a complete hardware mpeg-2 decoding solution considerable heat generated acceptable, but not superior, svideo input

I've tested this card on several games: It plays most popular current games at MAX settings at acceptable frame rates, including Half-Life 2, Unreal Tournament 2004, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, etc. It comes with plenty of cables for plugging in stuff, but it looks like only either the HD component outs OR the RCA composite outs can be connected. The TV tuner quality is good if the cable signal is strong, but when I tried to receive some off air channels I started to see effects and blurriness. It comes with ATI's suite of players and file managers, which is pretty cool, and its supposed to use hardware assisted playing of DVDs for example, and for capturing s-video. Overall I recommend this card because of its good price for all the features it consolidates.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: Absolutely great card. Has very useful features such as the FM encoder, and still has the ability to game the newer games.

Weakness: Price

Love the card, can play UT2004, DOOM 3, HL2 at the higher settings with good frame rates. Also provides great everydat features such as the FM, TV tuner. Love the remote and the easy to setup software that came with it.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: •Performs very well - Able to max out graphics options on Counter-Strike: Source and gameplay doesnt hinder with any lag. •Excellent TV quality than my Leadtek Expert •ATI 3 year warrenty

Weakness: •Not availible in PCI-E •Price may be expensive for an AGP card which are phasing out •No aftermarket cooling availible as of yet

I'm happy with the card. I am able to play games, watch TV and listen to the radio. I wish ATI would have gone with a vented PCI slot cooler since the card does get hot.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: Very fast graphics card with great picture. A lot of very nice features for the T.V.

Weakness: Becomes very wawrm with programs that require a lot of play.

This is a very nice graphics card. It has a lot of very nice features for the T.V. It has a DVI port on it if your monitor is compatible. The picture looks great in digital mode. I've had no problems with games or movies. It's a great card.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: Great card, awesome graphics.

Weakness: Fairly expensive at > $400

This is a wonderful card that will handle everything thrown at it with great ease. At first I was not happy with the $400 bill but after a while I realize that for how long this card will last me it is probably worth it. No compatibility issues, solid as a rock.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: Absolutely great graphics, can handle all the new games. Great at replacing your TV and radio. The TV is clear and crisp on my screen, and being able to rip mp3's from the radio is a great addition.

Weakness: Is not easily OCed, and it doesn't have dual DVI's which would make watching TV on your computer much easier.

Great card for people who need to be able to game, and have the extras that the AIW includes. Would recommend for gamers and those who just need the extra features of the AIW, if they can eat the price.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: Amazing graphics and DVR capabilities.

Weakness: none

The radeon AIW series keeps getting better and better. I have been a loyal user since the 8500 radeon, then went to the 9800, and this one surely does not dissapoint.

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ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Graphics/TV Tuner Card

Strengths: quality is good

Weakness: bit costly

For image quality on the tuner, this card is amazing. Once you get good reception the TV looks awesome at any resolution.


The FM radio is a cool feature, but the included radio antenna or wire is horrid. Stations are hard to pick up without major static.

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SOFTWARE STINKS

Strengths: As far as a video card goes its very good. Cat 6.3 drivers work but MMC is a FAILURE

Weakness: ATI MMC 9.13 software is horrible, Have installed and uninstalled at least 10 times with different problems each time. TV and remote are the big problems and ATI support BLOWS

WHAT I SAID ABOVE SOMES IT UP TOO BAD BECAUSE I REALLY WISH I COULD GIVE 5 STARS. LOOK AT RAGE3D forums before you buy.

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not compatible with Vista

Strengths: I bought this in November, and was stunned to learn that ATI would not be providing support for the TV tuner functionality within Vista.

This is a ridiculous decision by ATI. I've now had to go out and buy a new graphics card by NVIDIA in order to get my TV to work in Vista. ATI says they are phasing out the All in Wonder line, so don't buy this if you think you'll want to upgrade to Vista. Ever.

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Poor Software

Weakness: Software is next to worthless.

Give yourself 15-20 minutes every Sunday to "update" TV listings. To my knowledge you can't record a channel you're not watching. Controls are buggy and counter intuitive. Difficulty deleting recorded TV. The card will not switch display from landscape to portrait when I rotate the screen. I would not buy again.

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