ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Video Card

by ATI

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0006BC57O
• Item model number: 100-714200
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #80,203 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 24, 2005

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Multimedia entertainment is redefined with the new All-in-Wonder X800 XT - the most complete multimedia and 3D gaming experience for your PC.

Built upon the award-winning powerful RADEON X800 Visual Processing Unit (GPU), this new multimedia add-in video card brings innovative solutions for home theater, video editing and gaming enthusiasts. Turn your computer into a personal video recorder (PVR), DVD player, 3D game machine, radio jukebox and more. You can enjoy new levels of entertainment on your PC monitor, TV, or HDTV display, with the included output connections.

All-in-Wonder X800 XT is the first video card to feature DVI-I and VGA monitor connectivity plus a TV and FM Radio tuner in a single slot device. This video card is also the first All-in-Wonder to feature new input and output block connectors that provide easy access to peripheral devices.

All-in-Wonder X800 XT features extraordinary video processing capabilities that reduce noise, intelligently de-interlace and accelerate video playback that produce unmatched video quality. With VIDEOSHADER HD, RADEON X800 graphics technology takes advantage of its advanced video processing engine for user programmable video effects, video quality enhancement, and encoding and decoding of many video standards, including MPEG1/2/4, Real Media, DivX and Microsoft Windows Media Video 9. RADEON X800 Graphics Technology also supports the latest high-definition and wide display formats, providing a larger, more vivid movie, gaming and internet experience.

Features

Home Entertainment to the eXTreme
This silicon digital TV tuner provides instant viewing of up to 125 channels of cable or antenna broadcasts. TV-ON-DEMAND is yours to enjoy for pausing and recording TV programs on your PC. Similarly, FM-ON-DEMAND allows for pausing and recording of FM radio to MP3. Easily watch TV on your computer while working with other Windows programs with THRUVIEW or even watch two TV Programs at the same time with MulTView (Optional TV Wonder/Pro required).

View upcoming programs with the Interactive Program Guide, Gemstar's GUIDE Plus+. This intelligent free integrated program guide allows users to view and search TV listings by category, actor/performer, or date. Schedule and record programs at the click of a mouse Ð all the benefits of a PVR without the monthly fees. Enjoy all this entertainment while relaxing from up to 60 feet away with the REMOTE WONDER II. This second-generation radio-frequency remote control device allows for complete computer control with the benefits of wireless connectivity.

New features include EAZYLOOK, a distance user interface for easy-to-read on-screen information for TV and DVDs, and EAZYLAUNCH that allows EAZYLOOK to load directly at Windows start-up and, once loaded, display a menu of launchable features. The software also includes support for digital audio, DVD burning direct from within the MULTIMEDIA CENTER Library application, and more. The choice is yours, connect you computer to your TV, CRT Monitor, or LCD Monitor while enjoying crisper, cleaner video, enhanced by VIDEOSOAP.

Advanced Video Editing
Capture, create and edit your own personal movies or right on your PC and burn the results to DVD. You can even convert old VHS tapes to DVDs. The supplied input connections make it simple to import audio and video content.

Do more with the included feature-enhancing Software:

• muvee autoProducer Ð This DVD Edition of muvee autoProducer is integrated into ATIÕs MULTIMEDIA CENTER as automatic video-production software that enables users to quickly and easily create home music videos in a fraction of the time it would take using traditional video editing products.
• Matchware Mediator 7 Ð The software program allows for the creative combination of text, pictures, videos and sounds to build stunning presentations in a few minutes plus create web sites with streaming video and Flash executables.
• Serious Magic Visual Communicator Ð Visual Communicator features a new video production process that integrates real-time video with real-time 3D graphics. The software program includes an on-screen teleprompter, customizable graphics and titles, real-time transition and green screen effects as well as virtual sets.
• Pinnacle Studio 9 (ATI Version) Ð This newly created full-featured program offers digital video control with additional ATI-based bonuses, and delivers powerful features for consumer video editing.

ATI Support Backed by the acclaimed CATALYST software driver suite, you can play faster and longer.

MULTIMEDIA CENTER Ð the critically acclaimed software suite includes all the integrated programs to create a true multimedia experience whether it is for home theaters, video editing or game playing.

Non-Compromising Gaming Graphics on a Multimedia Card
All-in-Wonder X800 XT delivers full RADEON X800 XT Graphics Technology - 16 parallel pixel pipelines capable of an incredible eight gigapixels/second fill rate in full precision, and breakthrough image enhancement technology. 256 MB of memory and a full 16-pipeline 3D architecture. Designed with ATI's revolutionary 3Dc image enhancement technology maximizes the performance and image quality of todayÕs and tomorrowÕs 3D games.

Product Description

This new multimedia add-in video card brings innovative solutions for home theater, video editing and gaming enthusiasts. Turn your computer into a personal video recorder, DVD player, 3D game machine, radio jukebox and more. You can enjoy new levels of entertainment on your PC monitor, TV or HDTV display with the included output connections. This is the first video card to feature DVI-I and VGA monitor connectivity plus a TV and FM Radio tuner in a single slot device. It's also the first All-in-Wonder to feature new input and output block connectors that provide easy access to peripheral devices. Ports - DVI-I, 15-pin VGA, Stereo audio, S-video, composite video inputs and outputs, External stereo connections to sound card's line input and output Dolby digital stereo audio output (S/PDIF), YPrPb Output Includes Remote control System requirements - Windows XP/2000, Intel Pentium 4/Celeron, AMD Athlon or compatible with AGP 8X (0.8V) or 4X (1.5V) slot, 128MB of system memory (256MB+ recommended), CD-ROM drive, DVD playback requires DVD drive, Interactive Program guide requires internet connection for listing updates, Remote control receiver requires available USB port All-in-Wonder X800 XT requires connection to your PC's internal power supply for operation. A 300-watt power supply or greater is recommended to ensure normal system operation. A 350-watt power supply may be required in some fully-loaded PC systems where a number of other internal devices are installed 3-year labor and parts warranty

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Greatest AGP Card Ever?, November 13, 2005

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Reticuli (Las Vegas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Video Card (Personal Computers)

This card loses one star because of the work required to make it functional.

YOU MUST USE CATALYST 5.13, MMC 9.08, AND REMOTE WONDER II 3.03.00 WITH THE X800XT ALL IN WONDER. For the older ones, go to ATI's site, Drivers, XP, to the left side under drivers, XP, Radeon (or All In Wonder, doesn't matter), and Previous Drivers & Software in order to find them. All newer drivers are unstable with the x800xt AIW and have made TV On Demand a permanent service running in the background. They're really designed to cater towards the new PCIE 1800 series cards. Hyperthreading and dual core processing should be turned off whenever using TV streaming. Always turn off anti-spyware and anti-virus software in the background. If you have previous drivers, use the uninstall software, restart, use Driver Cleaner Pro (follow the instructions fully), delete the ATI/NVIDIA folders, then restart again before beginning.

If at anytime after a restart you get dual device sharing error messages, simply cancel out of them, restart the computer, and continue onto the next step. In those cases your computer just needs two restarts instead of one to configure properly.

Install Cat 5.13.
Restart.
Allow WDM drivers to install fully.
Restart.
MMC 9.08 part 1.
Restart.
MMC 9.08 part 2.
Restart.
MMC 9.08 part 3.
Restart.
Install Gemstar off your original driver CD.
Restart.
Install Remote Wonder II 3.03.00.
Restart.
Run Gemstar for setup, but don't let it set up TV tuner yet.
Upon Gemstar's completion (you stopped the TV), Restart again.
Open Gemstar and let it initialize your TV tuner and scan for channels.

This procedure works for me, with the TV even showing up in Gemstar. Occasionally there are still freezes when something else is running in the background, but they are usually associated with me doing something I shouldn't be. I've even had TV running in the background while using X-Plane's Planemaker. When using the PVR, never rename a recording in the middle of the recording process. Let it save in the pre-designated folder (you can change this prior to recording in setup). Stop it and go into that folder to rename and move it somewhere else. If you encounter persistent problems with crashes, the remote not being recognized, or anything else, then clean out everything and try again. You may need to uninstall the remote in Device Manager, unplug it, restart, plug it in, and restart again before installing the drivers in some of these cases. Some games/simulations also do not like MMC and Remote Wonder's software. So you may need to turn them off on the Taskbar before entering such programs.

The frame rates I get on this card are as good or better most of the time than the NVIDIA 7800 GS OC AGP I tried two weeks ago, and it runs much cooler when idle. I can overclock this to 520/560 with Tray Tools and still get great stability. That makes it essentially a Platinum level 800 series card. Add to that VIVO, TV Tuner, PVR, custom aspect ratios, cropping, zooming, etc, and it's very impressive. The radio tuner isn't very sensitive, but that might have more to do with the bundled antenna.

The ATI Rage Theater chip is the best DVD decoder I've ever come across. I have an imported Pioneer Elite SACD/DVD-A Player, and this card blows it away. Superior dynamic range in all colors, including the reds...which the Pioneer and many other players crush, destroying subtlety. With 848x480 widescreen mode, widescreen selected in the MMC options, S-Video "more sharpness", and default ATI picture settings, this card is downright reference grade through its dongle outputs to my Akai Interlaced Widescreen TV. This TV was calibrated by service technicians as close to the NTSC standard as they could. I could master DVDs on this system. And if you have a hidef TV, it will upsample; progressive scan TV, it will do that, too. Stunning quality.

Even though I can't do stereo 3D on very many titles because the Winx3D universal stereo drivers are being sat on by the company that bought them out (Opticality...curses be on you!), I refuse to buy NVIDIA anymore to remedy my stereo situation. Why? Because they're unstable gamer cards that have terrible picture quality. That 7800 was garbage. I have an eMagin head mounted display, and yet I'm giving up on 3D for most everything I use simply because this ATI card looks that good and runs that fast. Now, if Opticality would get off its rear-end and release Winx3D back to the public again (it was freeware before David C. Qualman sold out...more curses!) this ATI card would be unquestionably the best AGP card ever made. I think right now it still probably is, possibly the last great AGP card that will ever be made. Right now ATI's lack of their own stereo drivers is a handicap (even more so is their lie that stereo drivers are impossible pre-1800 series...Winx3D proves it), but it's not enough for me to give up this beauty for NVIDIA crapulence.

If you have PCIE, I guess the 1800 AIW is the way to go.

If any of you are interested in 3d stereo and have an ATI card, check out the DirectZ drivers and utility. They're just about the only version of Winx3D you can find on the net anymore and, though they aren't supported actively by the company, they do work on some titles...Draken, for instance.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Power card..., June 4, 2005

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TheCommish16 (US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Video Card (Personal Computers)

This card was not built nor meant to be sold to the "casual" computer user...this is a monster card. Graphically, when paired with a comprable processor this is hard to stop. It runs Doom 3, Half Life 2, Swat 4, any intense graphic game I've thrown at it. You can run at high resolutions or low. This card adds the built in TV tuner to the already outstanding power package, where you can connect a cable wire and WATCH tv on your screen! Priceless if you ask me. For the price you are getting a LOT of technology.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Awesome graphics, bad video, May 11, 2006

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Boris S (CT, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ATI All-In-Wonder X800 XT Video Card (Personal Computers)

This is probably not the best choice for somebody who wants to have a media center built around a computer or is a computer novice. It's a great video card (for applications/games), but not as good for video processing.

I originally bought this card over 6-months ago to run 1920x1200 resolution with my then new Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW monitor (needed an AGP card with DVI output and processing power to run games at such a high resolution). It took a few reboots to get the graphics drivers working as they should, but I was awed at the picture quality and the frame rates I was getting (still am today). I was very happy with the purchase, until I tried watching cable TV using the card. It took me days to even install the drivers and get them all working correctly without crashing every 5-seconds, and I'm not exactly a computer novice. I've tried many different versions of the software and the install crashes just installing not to mention actually running the TV-tuner. To this day my video sometimes freezes or some error occurs which forces me to reboot my machine before I can watch TV again. It's pretty annoying. Despite these annoyances when the TV does work, it's like interacting with a real TV set rather than a computer, thanks to the Remote Wonder II. I should also mention that there seems to be interference in the video as it comes in somewhat grainy (you can't tell if you don't sit right at the computer to watch TV, but this is NOT a video card I would choose if you plan on doing any serious video editing/recording). The plug, to which all the video inputs/outputs connect, is tiny and I'm sure that's part of the problem.

Good:
- Affordable considering the feature list
- When I bought it the same features cost more for a card WITHOUT the audio/video/tuner/remote
- Supports AGP for those of us not ready to upgrade our computers but need new video cards
- Very fast with lots of memory - great for photo/video editing/games (I wouldn't edit video via its inputs)
- Ok tuner for non-videophile
- Remote Wonder II is awesome when using the computer as a TV
- TV has independent volume control

Bad:
- Terrible drivers support (it shouldn't be rocket science to install)
- TV Tuner/MMC crash somewhat often (again, drivers)
- Inputs are somewhat grainy due to interference (don't use for serious video editing)
- Remote Wonder II doesn't work like a "real" remote control and is too sensitive-touching a key is enough to activate it, even though it's not pressed/clicked down
- Both video and graphics are on the same board (can't upgrade independently)

There is a lot more than can be said, but I don't want to write a book. Bottom line is if you're good with computers and you can get through the installation of this card, then you will probably enjoy it, even though it's not perfect. However, if you're somewhat a novice I would steer clear of this card. You will probably not even get it fully functioning.