System Setup and Notes
The All-In-Wonder Radeon X1900 was tested versus the All-In-Wonder Radeon X1800 XL, a Nebula DigiTV PCI DVB-T tuner, an ATI Theater 550 PRO PCI tuner (analogue only), and subjectively versus a standalone STB DVB-T receiver. Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 was the operating system used throughout testing. More on XP MCE 2005 shortly.Hardware
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| Processor(s) | AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 2.0GHz, single-core, 1MiB L2 per core, Toledo |
| Mainboard(s) | DFI LanPartyUT nF4 SLI-D |
| Memory | 4 x 512MiB Samsung TCCD DDR400 |
| Memory Timings | 2-2-2-5 @ 400MHz, 2T |
| BIOS Version | FX60TEST |
| Disk Drive | Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB SATA |
| Graphics Card(s) | ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon X1900 (500/490) ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon X1800 XL (500/500) |
| TV Tuner(s) | Nebula DigiTV ATI Theater 550 PRO |
| Graphics Driver | ATI CATALYST 6.2 |
| Operating System | Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 w/Emerald Windows XP Professional w/SP2 |
| Core Logic Driver(s) | nForce4 AMD Edition 6.70 |
| Other Drivers | Nebula BDA Drivers v1.036 ATI MMC 9.13 |
Notes
We ran into significant difficulty getting the AIW Radeon X1900 to tune free-to-air DVB-T initially. Thanks to testing and assistance by Mike Kreiten in ATI Germany, we tracked the problem down to a software compatibility issue.ATI Multimedia Centre installs Microsoft Data Access Objects, and the version being installed conflicted with a version already installed on the test PC, ironically by one of our own in-house analysis applications, engineered by yours truly.
Once resolved the AIW Radeon X1900 was able to tune DVB-T properly (although we're told the tuner part doesn't use DAO!) Regardless, cheers, Mike!
Almost all testing was performed under Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2005.
