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Review: GeCube All-In-Wonder 9600XT 128M/TV/FM

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 3 July 2004, 00:00

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Board Analysis

9600XT AIW

A quick glance at the picture shows us the pertinent details. Gold coloured GPU cooler, no extra power supply requirements (SFF owners rejoice!), the Rage Theater 200 chip that enables a fair bit of the AIW functionality and the TV/FM tuner that handles the rest. A second look at the port cluster reveals that things aren't quite standard in that regard.

Ports

FM antenna, TV aerial input, non-standard display input/output connector and the input connector for the capture dongle are what you can see. More on those soon.

DRAM

Samsung's ubiquitous K4D263238E DRAMs give the card its capacity. They're the GC2A, 350MHz (700MHz DDR) variant, giving the board some memory overclocking headroom at default voltage. More on that later.

Tuner

The tuner is broadly similar to the regular Philips version seen on AIW products for the past few generations, with the addition of an FM tuner for tuning radio signals.

Cooler

The cooler, despite appearances, only cools the GPU, not cooling the DRAM devices at all. It's aluminium, anodised gold, with a slightly noisy 40mm fan to cool things down.