ATI All-In-Wonder 9800 Pro 128 MB 8X AGP Graphics Card

by ATI

Product Details

Product Manual [773kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000AINE1
• Item model number: 100-713100
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 8, 2005

Product Description

With 128MB DDR memory and an 8 pixel pipeline, the All-In-Wonder 9800 Pro delivers unequalled rendering power for cinematic quality graphics. Save projects to VideoCD & DVD, or output to HDTV ready devices Feature film visual quality in games & multimedia 128MB DDR SDRAM Supports Windows 98 > XP (no NT) VGA, DVI & Component Video outputs 3 year limited warranty

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Forget TiVo, forget add-on PVRs. Get this., November 26, 2003

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Christopher Wanko "-C" (Nutley, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ATI All-In-Wonder 9800 Pro 128 MB 8X AGP Graphics Card (Personal Computers)

The funny thing about today's trend of recording to hard drives is that it had been realized by ATI quite some time ago. The All-In-Wonder series of video cards from ATI are expensive items, but in the rare category of "Worth Every Nickel".

I've owned nVidia cards, Creative cards, Hercules, Diamond, just about everything *but* an ATI card. They're expensive, and I never had the scratch until I got older. Boy, had I know what this baby could do, I'd have saved a little more

The AIW Radeon Series extends a successful formula: display television signals on a PC, and display PC video on a television. If this seems logical, consider that ATI (along with Hauppauge) has been in this space for years now. The worst-kept secret is finally out. The Radeon series is an extremely fast, capable display card with abilities far in excess of game-only display cards from nVidia or Creative.

The AIW Radeon 9800 ships with a remote control, an IR receiver, a variety of adapters for video input/output, software galore, and real instruction manuals. The software bundle puts tuning capability (not digital/ satellite though, as they have card access devices that cannot be tuned outside of the receiver), recording capability, and DVD playback right out of the box. Drivers come on a single CD, but after you perform an initial install on a Win2k or WinXP box, just download the latest drivers from ATI's website and go from there.

Installation is easy. Driver installation is easy. Once this is up, you'll need to spend some time learning what it can do, but in ten minutes you can be displaying Unreal on your plasma television for everyone to watch (you'd better be good or your deaths will be good grist for the humor mill).

You can rely on good documentation to help you figure out more-complex routing, and recording isn't really a ten-minute task, but here's the real scoop on this card: you can use your existing PC to record television, just like an add-on TiVo or PVR unit, just by owning this card. Convergence is already here, and my pick is ATI's AIW Radeon 9800.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth every penny!, April 19, 2004

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ANT "azraelart" (Crofton, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ATI All-In-Wonder 9800 Pro 128 MB 8X AGP Graphics Card (Personal Computers)

First of all, let's forget the notion that you're using this to tape shows from television, for either legal or illegal future usage. I'd like to give you the perspective of one who works daily with digital media, both in editing and filming. This card rocks! It certainly lives up to its name!

I had some initial problems getting the output to work, but then again I'm not one to read a manual from top to bottom for fun. Sorry, that's just not my thing. I read the essentials for what I need to do. I was on a rush job and needed answers fast. Though the manual had them, I called ATI's tech support and they were nothing but superb. The person on the other end was cordial, quick to the point, and more importantly, solved my issue in less than 2 minutes! This card really saved our bacon when the president of our organization needed a tape from digital and needed it fast. Without the proper hardware for that, we relied on the All-in-Wonder card to get the job done. Needless to say, the prez was more than pleased with the results.

If you need a reliable piece of equipment, this is the one to go with. But, please be sure to read the requirements. It will need a 300W power source, so keep that in mind when purchasing. Check the one in your PC and either confirm that what you have will work, or buy a newer more powerful one. Trust me, in the end, whatever you need done digital media wise, you will get it done with ATI. Enjoy!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars lets list the flaws too, March 7, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: ATI All-In-Wonder 9800 Pro 128 MB 8X AGP Graphics Card (Personal Computers)

this product does what the others report but... I've only had it 2 weeks and found out that it will REFUSE to record some shows because the software has some way of knowing that the transmitter wants copyright protection. (this was sports of free tv) So consider paying $400 to make a pc into a vcr that refuses to record some shows. 2nd the drivers & software arent being kept up to date. 3rd there are problems with agp drivers on many motherboards. 4th Allot of what you would think that the software would do it does not. for instance i have been unable to tell it to record the same show in the same time slot every week or day like you can a $50 vcr. so it feels like 1st generation hardware & software to me. also if you have a taste for normal tv resolution on replay better add a 100 gig drive to your expected costs.