The AIW 9700 Pro is the ultimate visual and home entertainment experience for your PC. It combines the fastest 3D gaming performance, superior television and entertainment features, along with easy-to-use video editing and capture found in a graphics card. With 128MB DDR memory, the card is the first to support DirectX 9.0, AGP 8X, utilize THEATER 200 for stereo and video decoding and processing, and has dual stereo TV-tuner capabilities with 125 channels in its class. There are already 3 previews up and running that we have listed for the ever hardware hungry.
Features RADEON? 9700 PRO Visual Processing Unit Eight parallel rendering pipelines Four parallel geometry engines 128MB DDR memory 256-bit DDR memory interface AGP 8X support THEATER? 200 Video decoder and stereo audio processor S/PDIF output Dual 12-bit ADCs Adaptive Comb Filter Stereo TV tuner with 125 channels TV-ON-DEMAND? timeshifting Radio frequency remote control Video capture and editing including VideoCD and DVD Authoring Component Video output via a YPrPb adapter System Requirements Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron?, AMD® K6/Athlon® or compatible with AGP 8X/4X/2X slot 128MB of system memory Installation software requires CD-ROM drive DVD playback requires DVD drive Interactive Program guide requires Internet connection for listing updates Remote control receiver requires available USB port mulTView? requires a TV WONDER? or TV WONDER? VE card 500MHZ minimum processor speed for MPEG-2 video capture
Graphics controller RADEON? 9700 PRO Visual Processing Unit (VPU) Memory configuration 128MB DDR Operating system support Windows® XP Windows® 2000 Windows® Me Windows® 98/98SE*
*Windows® Me driver can be installed on Windows® 98/98SE
Display support One display (VGA or DVI) simultaneously connected with a TV or VCR YPrPb output adapter (available in North America only)
TV-tuner requirements
TV signal from amplified antenna or cable. Versions available for: NTSC (North America, Japan, and Latin America*) Features vary from country to country and depending on the television standard. *Note that Latin American countries using the PAL M and PAL N standards including Argentina and Brazil are supported by the NTSC version. Connectors DVI-I (15 pin VGA adaptor included) Stereo audio, S-video, and composite video inputs and outputs External stereo connections to sound card's line input and output Dolby® digital stereo audio output (S/PDIF)
Warranty 3-year limited Preview @ GamersDepot: The updated Video Decoder captures incoming video from such sources as the TV-Tuner, VCRs and DVD players at great clarity and definition thanks to its ability of delivering low noise video signals. To bring these low noise signals, the Theater 200 sports Dual 12-bit ADCs and an Adaptive 2D 3-line Comb Filter process ? This is especially crucial for Composite inputs. Secondly, you can now capture TV broadcast in Stereo due to the new integrated Stereo decoder; making it fully compatible with world-wide broadcast standards such as BTCS, Dual FM, EIA-J and NICAM. Next up is the advanced Mpeg encoder which not only supports mpeg-2 but does this encoding with all-time CPU utilization lows. ATI has done major optimizations to its Multimedia Center 8.0, allowing improvements to motion-estimation algorithms, Bit-rate control for VBR (Variable Bit Rate) encoding, de-noising of incoming video streams, and hardware encode assist from the R300 GPU which yields up to a 15-20 percent CPU usage savings. ATI?s enhanced Bitrate Control lets you compress your data even further (say to make it fit on a 4.7GB blank DVD), without sacrificing quality. (P)Review @ AnandTech: the VideoSoap feature of the All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro gives the card the ability to pass up to four filters on an incoming video stream in order to decrease noise or just make the video look better in general. The filters, blur, despeckle, sharpen, and two combination filters, are passed over the video using the R300's pixel shaders and the amount of filtering done can be adjusted by the user. There are also preset VideoSoap settings for a variety of situations, including sports and news shows. The filters can only be applied when recording video, not when just watching live television. We think that the reason for this is because VideoSoap does end up using a good amount of CPU power to process and filter each frame and it would not be desirable to have a high CPU utilization while just watching television. Review @ HotHardware: Its specifications remain unchanged ? the chip is manufactured on a .15-micron process and consists of nearly 110 million transistors. Running at 325MHz, the chip generates a significant amount of heat, so the rectangular heatsink used on the RADEON 9700 Pro has been modified to provide a similar amount of cooling surface area, yet fit around board?s TV tuner. Even still, running 3D Mark 2001, we measured temperatures up to 172 degrees Fahrenheit on the back of the card. ATI opted to include 128MB of Samsung DDR memory (part number K4D26323RA-GC2A). Technically, the RAM is rated for operation at 350MHz, but the All in Wonder RADEON 9700 Pro?s 256-bit memory bus remains conservatively clocked at 310MHz, delivering up to 19.8GB per second of memory bandwidth.
Features RADEON? 9700 PRO Visual Processing Unit Eight parallel rendering pipelines Four parallel geometry engines 128MB DDR memory 256-bit DDR memory interface AGP 8X support THEATER? 200 Video decoder and stereo audio processor S/PDIF output Dual 12-bit ADCs Adaptive Comb Filter Stereo TV tuner with 125 channels TV-ON-DEMAND? timeshifting Radio frequency remote control Video capture and editing including VideoCD and DVD Authoring Component Video output via a YPrPb adapter System Requirements Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron?, AMD® K6/Athlon® or compatible with AGP 8X/4X/2X slot 128MB of system memory Installation software requires CD-ROM drive DVD playback requires DVD drive Interactive Program guide requires Internet connection for listing updates Remote control receiver requires available USB port mulTView? requires a TV WONDER? or TV WONDER? VE card 500MHZ minimum processor speed for MPEG-2 video capture
Graphics controller RADEON? 9700 PRO Visual Processing Unit (VPU) Memory configuration 128MB DDR Operating system support Windows® XP Windows® 2000 Windows® Me Windows® 98/98SE*
*Windows® Me driver can be installed on Windows® 98/98SE
Display support One display (VGA or DVI) simultaneously connected with a TV or VCR YPrPb output adapter (available in North America only)
TV-tuner requirements
TV signal from amplified antenna or cable. Versions available for: NTSC (North America, Japan, and Latin America*) Features vary from country to country and depending on the television standard. *Note that Latin American countries using the PAL M and PAL N standards including Argentina and Brazil are supported by the NTSC version. Connectors DVI-I (15 pin VGA adaptor included) Stereo audio, S-video, and composite video inputs and outputs External stereo connections to sound card's line input and output Dolby® digital stereo audio output (S/PDIF)
Warranty 3-year limited Preview @ GamersDepot: The updated Video Decoder captures incoming video from such sources as the TV-Tuner, VCRs and DVD players at great clarity and definition thanks to its ability of delivering low noise video signals. To bring these low noise signals, the Theater 200 sports Dual 12-bit ADCs and an Adaptive 2D 3-line Comb Filter process ? This is especially crucial for Composite inputs. Secondly, you can now capture TV broadcast in Stereo due to the new integrated Stereo decoder; making it fully compatible with world-wide broadcast standards such as BTCS, Dual FM, EIA-J and NICAM. Next up is the advanced Mpeg encoder which not only supports mpeg-2 but does this encoding with all-time CPU utilization lows. ATI has done major optimizations to its Multimedia Center 8.0, allowing improvements to motion-estimation algorithms, Bit-rate control for VBR (Variable Bit Rate) encoding, de-noising of incoming video streams, and hardware encode assist from the R300 GPU which yields up to a 15-20 percent CPU usage savings. ATI?s enhanced Bitrate Control lets you compress your data even further (say to make it fit on a 4.7GB blank DVD), without sacrificing quality. (P)Review @ AnandTech: the VideoSoap feature of the All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro gives the card the ability to pass up to four filters on an incoming video stream in order to decrease noise or just make the video look better in general. The filters, blur, despeckle, sharpen, and two combination filters, are passed over the video using the R300's pixel shaders and the amount of filtering done can be adjusted by the user. There are also preset VideoSoap settings for a variety of situations, including sports and news shows. The filters can only be applied when recording video, not when just watching live television. We think that the reason for this is because VideoSoap does end up using a good amount of CPU power to process and filter each frame and it would not be desirable to have a high CPU utilization while just watching television. Review @ HotHardware: Its specifications remain unchanged ? the chip is manufactured on a .15-micron process and consists of nearly 110 million transistors. Running at 325MHz, the chip generates a significant amount of heat, so the rectangular heatsink used on the RADEON 9700 Pro has been modified to provide a similar amount of cooling surface area, yet fit around board?s TV tuner. Even still, running 3D Mark 2001, we measured temperatures up to 172 degrees Fahrenheit on the back of the card. ATI opted to include 128MB of Samsung DDR memory (part number K4D26323RA-GC2A). Technically, the RAM is rated for operation at 350MHz, but the All in Wonder RADEON 9700 Pro?s 256-bit memory bus remains conservatively clocked at 310MHz, delivering up to 19.8GB per second of memory bandwidth.
