ATI All-In-Wonder Card

pyr3pyr3
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
I'm thinking of grabbing an ATI All-In-Wonder Card. Which would be my best bet (no the new 9700 all-in-wonder)? The 8500DV? or the 7500 ? The 7500 is $65.00. The 8500DV is $173.00. This is going into my PC desktop that is currently a server for this year, but when I move I will be using it as a desktop. Right now it's next to the TV so I want the TV-out to play videos on my TV. I also haven't upgraded my video card since 2000, so I'm not sure how great the performance on newer cards since then are. I have been using a GeForce1 DDR since a couple months since is came out. I wondering how much better the 7500 would be. And if it's worth the extra money for the 8500. I think that it's worth noting that I don't play many games anymore, but I would like to be able to play some games on it like WC3 and such when I hook a monitor up to it. Advice?

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    pyr3pyr3 Posts: 946member
    Forgot to mention that the 7500 is $135 for the retail. The $65.00 is the OEM.
  • Reply 2 of 4
    tigerwoods99tigerwoods99 Posts: 2,633member
    If you wait until the AIW 9700 starts to appear in stores, I think you could be looking at that 8500DV for cheap. That's what I would do.



    I'm anxiously awaiting the Mac AIW card.....
  • Reply 3 of 4
    stoostoo Posts: 1,490member
    My Radeon 7200 AIW (PCI) works fine with recent games (e.g. Unreal Tournament 2003) on my Duron 800 based PC.



    An AGP 7500 should be fine for today's games but I'd agree about waiting to see what the 9700 AIW does to prices. What processor does the PC have?
  • Reply 4 of 4
    pyr3pyr3 Posts: 946member
    [quote]Originally posted by Stoo:

    <strong>My Radeon 7200 AIW (PCI) works fine with recent games (e.g. Unreal Tournament 2003) on my Duron 800 based PC.



    An AGP 7500 should be fine for today's games but I'd agree about waiting to see what the 9700 AIW does to prices. What processor does the PC have?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Yea, I'll probably wait for the 9700 to start to affect the market, but I'm thinking that I'll only need a 7500 though. My processor is a AMD 1.4GHz; I got it just before the AthlonXPs came out.
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