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The graphic capabilities are the same on the ATI AIW boards as the regular non AIW, just Radeon cards. The Radeon 9600XT's performance is for the high demanding main stream card user. Just think how important would you put gaming, should you invest 160 USD on the Radeon 9600XT, or the 180 USD on the Asus 9600XT or the 280 USD on the ATI AIW 9600XT.
Also remember that the Radeon 9600XT were just released a few months ago - they are not aged like the Radeon 9700 series and the 9500s (though they're both excellent cards). Performance fits somewhere between the Radeon 9600 Pro and the 9700 Pro. If you intend on demanding more graphics power from your card and don't mind giving up the VIVO functions and all on the 9600XT, I would go with the PowerColor Radeon 9700 Pro, which gives more power and more performance that the 9600XT at its lowest price ever - 183 USD.
What should you pick? The Radeon 9600XT VPU is definately recommendable and if you should choose to purchase one, I would definately congratulate you on a fine purchase.
Hope that helps,
kram
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