Asus AGP-V7700 GeForce2 GTS Deluxe
Though based on NVIDIA’s GF2 GTS GPU, the folk at Asus have put their creativity to work and taken their own path through the woods and strayed quite a bit from the reference design. Some major redesigning has been done on the outside portion, both front and back to add video digitizing on the V7700 Deluxe. Room has also been made for Asus’s own VR-out for 3D Glasses and several video components like a composite-out and S-Video In/out.
The V7700 ships with 32MB of 333MHz DDR SGRAM. This gives up to 5.3 GB/sec bandwidth, which is ample for most gamers unless you constantly run at 1600×1200, if which is the case a 64MB card is most suited.
And since the GF2 GTS benefits from texture compression the 32 Megabytes will satisfy most gamers. The GPU gets extra cooling by a circular fan, which keeps the heat down. The additional Video components haven’t got any fans or sinks to keep them cool, but over heating is not some thing we experienced with the V7700 Deluxe.
New Features:
The most exciting part of the Deluxe board is it’s video digitizing functionality. It’s possible to link a SVHS or composite source to the Deluxe and start recording to your hard drive straight away. The software bundled with the board let’s you do time shifting, take screen shots as well as editing.
Time Shifting:
Time shifting is where you can record video while watching a live TV/Video feed on your machine and also let you pause, rewind or replay a part of the live feed while the rest of the live feed continues to be recorded.
Though the Asus Deluxe board supports this feature, it does not have a TV-tuner. So, the additional TV-tuner is going to cost you. Also, the time shifting bundle just does what it’s supposed to do without much appeal or user-friendliness. And you asked what TV tuner cards are compatible?…your guess is as good as mine, there’s not a clue about this on the box.
Video Capture:
Check out the pictures we have captured, using the V7700 Deluxe and ATI’s All-In-Wonder. As you can see the video capture quality of the V7700 deluxe is not the best in the market.Though the V7700 deluxe is good enough for recording your favorite talk show on TV it is not up to standard for capturing screens for presentations or archiving those precious family get togethers. The ATI AIW’s capturing capabilities are much better, and the Asus V7700 deluxe’s capture hardware just falls short of good quality shots.
ATI AIW
V7700 Deluxe
Check out these shots captured from X-MEN. The shot from the AIW is much sharper and the contrast is much better compared to the V7700 Deluxe’s
