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nVidia's Equivalent To ATI's ALL-IN-ONE Wonder
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Hi all. I have the ATI Radeon X800 ALL-IN-WONDER and I was looking for a NVIDIA equivalent to the ALL-IN-WONDER part. I need a broader selection of new graphics cards, and though I've always used ATI, if NVIDIA has what I need, then its NVIDIA.
(Last edited by Mac User #001; Apr 23, 2007 at 04:57 PM.
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nVidia doesn't make any video cards themselves (ATi does), and I don't know of any of the manufacturers who make nVidia-based cards who include TV tuners.
Personally I have no idea why anyone would want their TV tuner tied to their graphics card; I upgrade graphics cards much more often than TV tuners. Even if you're slot limited, you can get a USB tuner.
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Thanks mduell. I didn't know nVidia didn't make their own graphics cards... Seems weird.
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Originally Posted by mduell 
nVidia doesn't make any video cards themselves (ATi does), and I don't know of any of the manufacturers who make nVidia-based cards who include TV tuners.
Personally I have no idea why anyone would want their TV tuner tied to their graphics card; I upgrade graphics cards much more often than TV tuners. Even if you're slot limited, you can get a USB tuner.
It's convenient to have a TV card built into the GPU for at least a few reasons. It saves expansion slots. It makes sense to have TV options integrated with video, because the both do the same things. Plus, I would bet only a small percentage of Mac owners upgrade their cards due to the poor availability of Mac GPU upgrade cards. Of course, those points are moot because TV tuner GPU cards don't exist in our market anyway.
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Originally Posted by Mac User #001
Thanks mduell. I didn't know nVidia didn't make their own graphics cards... Seems weird.
nVidia hasn't made any cards for quite some time now; the Wikipedia has a list of companies that make video cards based on nVidia chipsets. ATi used to make all their cards themselves (or at least under their own brand, see below), but opened up to third parties making cards a few years ago (pretty much the same group that make nVidia-based cards). These days most if not all of ATi's cards are actually produced by Sapphire (who also sells the cards under their own brand).
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Nvidia basically makes the reference board cards which they use to hand out to third party manufacturers, and then the third party manufacturers then go on to either just go by reference board or tweak it a bit by either using a different cooling method or offering a card with a bump in gpu and memory speed. Nvidia a couple of years back had a prototype card that was going to compete with the all in wonders but a final product never saw the light of day. I guess they decided that the all in wonder market wasnt that big and they wouldnt really profit from it since it was up to the third party manufacturers to decide if they wanted to sell the cards.
Although back in the day when TNT and TNT2 existed up to GF4 some manufacturers offered an nvidia all in wonder equivalent of their own. One of the most known cards were the ones made by Asus. They offered VIVO versions of the cards which had tv tuners in them.
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