System Specifications
- Intel 865 GLC motherboard using 5.00.012 inf files
- P4 2.8 GHz 533 MHz FSB
- 512MB DDR400
- Onboard Sound
- ATI drivers 3.8
- 120GB Maxtor UDMA133 HDD
- Cards tested: AIW 9800 Pro, AIW 9700 Pro, AIW 9600 Pro
Benchmarks used
- Halo
- 3dmark 2003
- Aquamark 3
- 3dmark 2001 SE
- Final Fantasy XI Benchmark 2
- Gunmetal Benchmark 1+2
- Quake3 Arena
I decided to use the 3 available All In Wonder cards to test performance with. This is to show where the performance fits in with the current offerings of ATI. As I don't have a Personal Cinema based GEFORCE FX card from NVIDIA, and don't feel a comparison with a 5900 Ultra or 5950 to be fair or necessary (as there are no NVIDIA cards with a TV Tuner in this category), I decided to leave NVIDIA cards out of the performance section of the review.
The choice of benchmarks is representative of the benchmarks that we use today. I added Halo because I'm currently playing the game. The other benchmarks are representative of DirectX 8.1/9.0 games that are fairly current with the addition of Quake 3 Arena and 3dmark 2001 SE to give a sense of performance on older benchmarks and games.
