ati all in wonder radeon questions

[01gts]

i am building my first setup, and was looking at the all in wonder video card. what is the difference between the oem version listed as rage 128 pro and the retail, version listed as all in wonder rage. is there enough of a difference to support the almost 50 dollar gap in price? thanks for your help. oh and is this card ok to run microsoft flight simulator and occasional gaming? what is the performance difference between this and the 7500?

[Pinky]

Functionally there's no difference, but included software and cables with the retail make the extra $50 well spent.

The card can play UT at 40fps, so it should be able to play a flight simulator at default settings.

The 7500 card, however, would smack this one silly in gaming performance.

[Cisco Kid]

Another choice that is better is the Radeon 64 DDR vivo. It is about $148 online. It is much faster supports video in and out and S-Video out. Would outperform the Rage card by alot

It is a pretty fast card very overclockable. Pinky owned one of these cards as I did myself. The extra $50 you mentioend is for the extra goodies that come with retail version is worth it.

7500 can be found for like $108 online at www.newegg.com. It is a great card faster than the 64 DDR vivo and would annihalate the Rage card. I play UT at about 80+ fps with settings pretty much maxxed, default at 90+fps. 7500 supports dual monitor , S-Video out @1024x768 no other card I know of does this.

My 2 cents worth guess it depends what ya wanna spend

Cisco Kid

:cool:

[01gts]

they have them refurbished at newegg for 109, whats your oppinion on the refurbished issue? the 7500 is kinda out of the question since i have to hook this up to a tv set as i cant afford a monitor right now.

[Cisco Kid]

Originally posted by 01gts
they have them refurbished at newegg for 109, whats your oppinion on the refurbished issue? the 7500 is kinda out of the question since i have to hook this up to a tv set as i cant afford a monitor right now.


I am not big on the OEM scene. If they will tell you what the clk/mem setting is and the speed of the ddr ram is. A radeon SE 64 DDR vivo should be 198/198 with 5 ns ddr ram, settle for nothing less. C

Cause there was a post today by someone that got a 7500 from newegg.com and it is OEM with a lower clock/mem speeds. He was not happy and planned to send back.

I say spend the 20-35 extra and buy retail if you can afford. BTW the 7500 supports TV out thats what S-Video is as long as your TV has S Video in. 7500 is the only card that does this at 1024x768, all other cards do 800x600. That would be a nice feature to have if you use your TV as your monitor.

Cisco Kid:cool:

[01gts]

thanks cisco kid. unfortunately i did not spend the extra 50 when i bought the tv to get the svideo input so i am stuck going composite, otherwise i would definately get the 7500. as for now i think i am leaning toward the all in wonder radeon. 40 frames per second doesnt sound that bad. however i am still deciding, do you think its bad that those cards from newegg.com are refurbished? does that make a difference? thanks

[Cisco Kid]

Originally posted by 01gts
thanks cisco kid. unfortunately i did not spend the extra 50 when i bought the tv to get the svideo input so i am stuck going composite, otherwise i would definately get the 7500. as for now i think i am leaning toward the all in wonder radeon. 40 frames per second doesnt sound that bad. however i am still deciding, do you think its bad that those cards from newegg.com are refurbished? does that make a difference? thanks


AIW Radeon is a great card read the review I have attached

http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q3/000821/

I was gonna buy this card but could not afford when it came out, so I went with a Asus Geforce 256 V6800 32 DDR deluxe card as an alternate. It was nice as well. And I am assuming you meant the AIW Radeon ddr version not the All In Wonder 32 sdram version, the previous generation?? right??

Read the conclusion on the AIW , 2 thumbs up!!!

Cisco Kid:D