The theatre 550 cards are very good especially the PCI-E 1X cards. But theatre 650 cards are right around the corner about 2 weeks away
Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -----Original Message----- From: "Greg Sevart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 10:42:44 To:"The Hardware List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [H] 24 inch montior >>You'd need to upgrade the video card to run any modern game at native. > > Well that isn't going to happen. I have a AGP in a dual Xeon board .... I > just did the X800 last December which was the fastest AGP available. > >>If you're set on the AIW, > > No, from now on no more AIW...they are not worth the grief. I will go with > standard video cards and separate tuners. I will say that the recording > results appear to my eye to be better on the AIW then any stand alone I > have seen to date. Agreed--I learned the same lesson back with the Matrox Rainbow Runner. You might look at the ATI Theatre 550 card...supposedly one of the best analog tuners out now. > But I am not ready to move on to a PCIX board. Nitpick--PCIe. PCIX has already been taken. :) > >>you're probably looking at an X1800 XL AIW or X1900 AIW, unless you run >>old games only. > > I am not a gamer, so it isn't that big of a deal, although I do have a > copy of Half Life II I haven't used yet... so what happens when I load > that? > A review I found of the X800 XL AIW showed 56fps at 1600x1200 (4xAA, 16xAF) in HL2, and that was in November...so you're probably going to be decent with that game.
