ATI All In Wonder Radeon 8500 DV Review!

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RivaStation has taken the AIW to their testing labs. This card comes with a RADEON 8500 (R200) core and a whole bunch of multimedia features like a TV-Tuner, Video-In and -Out as well as two IEEE 1394 Firewire Ports. Instead of 275 MHz, the chip runs as 230 MHz. Also, the memory is only clocked to 190 MHz (380 MHz DDR), instead of 275 MHz. The reason for this is the memory module, which, at 5 ns, is pretty slow. According to ATI, faster memory modules would have made these cards much more expensive, and therefore less attractive. Check out this feature rich card put to the test