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ATI All In Wonder 2006 Edition Review

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006 | Reviews, Video Card Reviews

If you are looking for a complete digital media system, the ATI All-In-Wonder® 2006 Edition offers you a good package at a reasonable price. This video card isn’t just about high performance gaming though. In addition to gaming, this card offers features such as TV on your PC, video editing software, interactive programming guides, and input/output capabilities for multimedia devices such as DVD players, VCRs or camcorders.

The ATI All-In-Wonder 2006 Edition joins Radeon™ 9600 technology and 256MB of memory with many of its standard features. This video card has Smartshader™ 2.0 technology, which allows users to experience complex movie-quality effects. It also features Smoothvision™ 2.1 technology with state-of-the-art Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering techniques to provide new levels of image quality. For the latest advancement in video processing, ATI offers Fullstream™, which is their hardware accelerated filtering method that improves the performance and visual quality of streaming video playback.

Specifications:

• GPU/VPU – Radeon 9600
• Maximum Resolution – 2048 x 1536 @ 60Hz
• Video Memory - 256MB
• Memory Type – DDR
• Interface Type & Speed – AGP, 4X, 8X
• Connector(s) – CATV In, TV/S-Video, VIVO
• Multiple Monitors Support – Yes

Many users purchase this card to support their self-built media system computers. The software included allows for an inexpensive home video system and the multimedia aspects of the card are what take center stage over its gaming capability. While it will work on an older system, you and your computer will be happier with this purchase if you have at least a 2GHz processor. The ATI 2006 edition is the more affordable of the All-In-Wonder cards. It doesn’t have the over-the-top graphical performance as some of the All-In-Wonder cards, but for the price, it still reflects the quality multimedia features that ATI puts in their A-I-W products.

This video card provides the availability to pause live TV, much like TiVo, and comes with a program that allows you to browse cable channels and set parental controls. Additionally, there is a feature called Thruview. This allows you to watch TV while typing on your computer or surfing the internet. There is also a DVD and CD player included, as well as a FM Radio tuner that allows you to record or listen to the radio.

The bottom line is that this card does what it says it is going to do and has a lot of good video features to back it up. For the most part, ATI stays with what works in their A-I-W products. It is relatively easy to use and straightforward. The All-In-Wonder 2006 Edition won’t do the kind of job that a full media center PC with all the bells and whistles would do for a home theater system, but it does hit closer to home in terms of value and need.

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