All in wonder cards are nice and well known cards these days. Gecube sent us their All in wonder Radeon 9600XT card for a review. This is a nice card that offers you radio, tv-on-demand, and remote control, etc... But will it be good enough speed wise? We are reviewing this card against a few other cards such as 9600XT, 9600, and FX5600 to see how it will perform.
About Gecube:
Info-Tek Corp. was founded in 1990 and has grown rapidly. Within 14 years, it went from an organization with small manufacturing facility to the leading contract electronic manufacturer for global OEM/ODM customer.Info-Tek Corp. is an energetic company with the support of strong R & D team in 3D Graphics, multimedia and active marketing channels, establish it's product brand name "". Info-Tek Corp. became ATi's AIB (Add In Board) partner GeCube with its focused growth strategy, offers great multimedia product based on the cutting-edge technology. GeCube is a Product brand name of Info-Tek Corp.
Specifications:
Access new channels of home entertainment with a high volume collection of TV, DVD, radio, audio and video tools. The ALL-IN-WONDER� 9600 Series brings together dynamic features with wireless remote control and the processing power of cinematic rendering. Supporting DirectX� 9.0 and AGP 8X with up to 128MB DDR memory, ALL-IN-WONDER� 9600 series represents an unbeatable combination of value and performance.
High Performance Entertainment
Create a personal Super Station of TV, DVD, FM-Radio and video playback with on-demand features, wireless remote (optional) and a 125 channel Stereo TV tuner.
TV-ON-DEMAND records programs, pauses live TV and resumes broadcasts on your schedule directly to your PC�s hard drive.
New! Use FM-ON-DEMAND to record radio programs and play them back at the click of a button.
Gemstar GUIDE Plus+ provides interactive programming guides to select, schedule and record favourite shows
THRUVIEW creates live, translucent TV, video and DVD windows for easy desktop access
Radio frequency wireless remote adds the flexibility of a hand held, 30 foot user interface
New EAZYLOOK� provide easy to read on-screen information for TV and DVDs
MulTView enables dual TV tuner capabilities including Picture-in-Picture and independent channel surfing*
*Additional ATI TV WONDER� is required for this to work
Personal Production Studio
Import and edit classic home videos or create personal blockbusters to share with family and friends at home or over the internet.
Capture still images at resolutions up to 720 x 480 and video at up to 30 frames-per-second
Add effects, transitions and sound with Power Director PRO software (available with the ALL-IN-WONDER� 9600 PRO)
Save projects to VideoCD formats
New! Integrated DVD and VCD directly from MULTMEDIA CENTER�. Save home movies and TV shows to DVDs at the click of a button.
Immersive Gameplay
Experience feature film quality visuals and real-time cinematic rendering in games and multimedia, the new standard in 3D graphics.
128MB DDR memory to generate detailed gaming without sacrificing frame rates
Full support for DirectX� 9.0 ensures future compatibility with next-generation games
Full support for the AGP 8X standard doubles available bandwidth for a more engaging gaming experience
SMARTSHADER� 2.0 enables cinematic quality lighting effects
SMOOTHVISION� 2.1 delivers the sharpest, clearest textures
The product:
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Gecube is a new company to me at least so this will be very interesting to see how this card can perform. The box is very nice with a Gecube logo on the side and on the back some features that this card comes with.
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This is a adapter so you can run different video cables to get your computer on the TV. I like that they give you a few choices so you don't have to run and get a new cable as soon as you change videocards. You get the following ports with this small purple "box", S-Video, Video RCA, and left and right stereo audio RCA.
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On the left we have the FM antenna so you can tune in some radio channels from your area and also four AAA batteries for the remote control that you will see later. With this you have the ability to use two VGA monitors as well as providing the ability to output your PC display to a TV using your choice of S-Video or comp. Video out.You also have an RCA S/PDIF audio out connection for 5.1 digital audio which can be used with your home theater speakers.
