9800SE AIW Card - £131

What do people think, is it worth buying one of these ? I have a Radeon 9000 Pro 64mb, but a limited budget, and I have wanted a decent TV card for a while, am I just wasting my money on a cheape version of the 9800 ? Or is the possibility of soft modding it to a 9800 just a bonus on a decent budgety card ?

Look here:
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?threadid=6448
You can get them for £131

Should i get one ? Taking into account this card is going to have to last at the VERY VERY LEAST a year, and more likely 2 years, and probably more.
What do you (Austin) think ? :D ;)

id say get 1 if it softmods its a b00dy steal at that price and even if it dont softmod u can still overclock it

Buy it, you have the same amount of luck purchasing one from say, OcUK for 161!

You may be misunderstanding me a bit, I am not really interested in modding it. I may just leave it as a 9800SE. Is this a decent enough card to last me a while, taking into account im not a performance freak ;)
I do play alot of games like AAO and bf1942 though

lets put it this way:

my mate bought 4, soft modded 1 successfull, another had artifacts and he's sold the other 2 which didnt softmod at all

a steal.

So this softmod is prolly a hacked driver then ? , dose anyone have a link for it ? :)

You can get the driver from this site:

www.omegacorner.com

Got mine from lowestonweb.co.uk for £127 and am well happy even tho it doesn't softmod - I guess 9600xt performance will have to do me ;)

[jF] is your card 256bit + what manufacturer is it?

Oh yeah. I have this mate, who has one of thes. His before and after softmod results on 3dmark where.

16546 Before

20487 After

So if you get a card that soft mods, you really do have a decent card. Just make sure that the one you buy is a 256bit card. Stay away from 128bit ones.

As much as I have been tempted by AIW. I think that in the long term it might be better to get a separate TV card.
That way, you can freely upgrade without having to pay a premium each time.

Also, does the AIW do digital TV? Because some of the more pricey TV cards allows that..