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ATI All-In-Wonder 7500

The ATI All-In-Wonder (AIW) 7500 seems to come in a few forms, one including a TV tuner, one with 32MB and one with 64MB. The AIW 7500 we have has 64MB and the TV tuner along with Audio/Video in/out and DVI out. At first I thought these were SVideo in and out, but closer examination shows that the connectors are not SVideo. The original boxed set seems to have come with a special ATI purple external connector cable that allows for component audio and video out (we did see on one site SVideo as well). Here's a link to a Vietnamese overclocking site that has a photo of the connector.

The product ID number on our card is 1028390502. We list it here because googling the product ID number didn't turn up any results for us, but beside the serial number is the code AIW 7500 64MB DDR (All-In-Wonder 7500).

We googled this card and while it seems people are using it under Linux as video-out, there doesn't appear to be good support for the tuner-portion of the card. Searching the PVR Hardware Database turns up a number of people using it as their graphics card, but only one person using it as his tuner card, and rating it 1 out of 10. Skimming other sites we turned up similar results, it's a no go if you're going to do Myth TV.

Our card is AGP. The capacitors appear to be high quality capacitors. There's a CD Out connection near the top of our card and a heat sync, rather than a noisy fan.
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