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My new Randeon 9200 card review
My new Asus 9180 card was grabbing pretty good , but not perfect . In some cases (specially from some old VHS tapes ) some flashes appears on the grabbed video . Also in some other tapes the video appears a white rectangle , screwing some parts of video file . So I tried to find something better . My next thought was to use an ATI based card , (since this brand was my favorite for so many years) . I couldn't find any original ATI card with Video In , so I bought a Gigabyte Randeon 9200 . The price was even better than Asus 9180 so it was a challenge to test it . Concerning gaming the card is as good as they say about R9200 chips . It's better than a Geforce4/MX 440 , plus it comes with many nice staff & utilities . I didn't stay on gaming performance because my point is the Video grabbing . The card comes with ATI Rage Theater chip (don't know if it's the same with the one included in the ATI AiW Pro series) . Talking about Video In , ATI features wasn't as good as expected : 1) Colors wasn't too true , it gives this "plastic" feeling that most older or chipper cards have , 2) CPU load was bigger than V9180 , 3) When trying to grab from very old or bad tapes , the result was worse than V9180 . When the quality of a VHS tape is vary bad , V9180 appears a white rectangle (due to bad source) , Gigabyte ATI R9200 video capturing stacks dropping the whole video capture process . My conclusion is obvious : I stayed with V9180 .
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