ATI RADEON 64MB DDR VIVO AGP VIDEO CARD - Is it anygood ?

[marvel2020]

Hi guys,

I'm in market for a Capture Card and was considering ATI one.

I need to know if it's any good, going by the specs on it from the ATI website(link below)

http://www.ati.com/na/pages/products/pc/radeon64_ddr/index.html

It seems an excellent Video Capture card as well as an excellent graphics card but i need a few opinions on it before i jump in at the deep end and buy it.

So comeon guys don't be shy let me really know what you think of it.

Thanks in advance

[3dcandy]

Yeah, is a nice card, but has been superceded by newer ATI cards and some GeForce cards are faster!
I've got one, and am happy with it, but I will be upgrading soon....

[Sonus]

The capture part of the card hasn't changed at all, so the AIW Radeon and the AIW Radeon 8500 are the same capture wise.

I'm a bit annoyed that they don't have fully working software for XP though.

[taco]

The card is good but ATI's WindowsNT, 2000 and now XP drivers suck.

[Jason A]

Yea...but the 8500 AIW has firewire....and that will allow going from DV to mpeg 1/2 without any problems.

Also...from what I hear....the 8500 has a faster clock rate then the previous version.

Memory clock is the same..but the core is different.

Jason