Diamond All-in-Wonder HD Premium 5000 Review

Testing:

To properly test the Diamond All-in-Wonder HD Premium 5000, I am not only going to need to test the HD5570 that comes with it to see how well it is going to perform compared to other video cards that are currently out on the market, but I am going to also need to test the TVW750 PCIE card as well, meaning it is going to be a two-fold testing process. I am going to start out by testing the main feature of the package, which is going to be the capability to watch TV on your computer, as this is going to be the main reason anyone would purchase this combo package. To actually test the TV functionality of the All-in-Wonder HD Premium 5000, I am going to be using the software that comes with the package, which is ArcSoft TotalMedia 3.5. Since this software not only allows you to watch a TV signal coming into your PC, but also allows you to watch video files, I will compare picture quality though this application to what you will get using Windows Media Player and see if there is any difference in quality, as well as CPU usage. Finally, I am going to need to test the actual video card's performance, which is going to be similar to the testing that is done in a video card review, except I am going to thin it out to only two real-world gaming benchmarks and 3DMark11. So let's get testing to see how well it performs.
 

Testing Setup:

• Processor: Intel i7 920 200x18 3.6GHz
  
• Cooling: Noctua NH-U12P SE 1366
• Motherboard: MSI X58 Platinum
• Memory: 996805 Redline PC312800 6-8-6-24 1600MHz
• Video Card: Diamond HD5570
  
• TV Tuner: Diamond TVW750 PCIE HDTV Tuner
• Power Supply: Mushkin 800 watt modular power supply
• Hard Drive: 1 x Seagate 1TB SATA
• Optical Drive: LG DVD-RW
• OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
• Case: NZXT Beta Evo
  
• Case: Cooler Master HAF 932

Comparison Video Cards:

• Sapphire HD6870 Vapor-X
  
• NVIDIA GTS 450
• EVGA GTX 460 FTW
• ASUS ENGTX465
• NVIDIA GTX 480
• Galaxy GTX 470 GC
• BFG GTS 250 1GB OC
• Sapphire HD 5970 2GB
• Sapphire HD 5870
• Sapphire HD 5850 Toxic 2GB
• Sapphire HD 5770 VaporX
• Sapphire HD 5750 VaporX
• XFX HD 6850
• XFX HD 6870
• NVIDIA GTX 580

TV Tuner Testing

1. TotalMedia 3.5
   
   1. Video Playback Quality
   2. TV Quality

Video Card Testing

• Gaming Tests:

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
2. Batman: Arkham Asylum
3. 3DMark 11

• Usage:

1. Temperature
2. Power Consumption