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Best Video card at this point of Vista developement
Ahhh, heck! This new HP MedCen Pav w/XPproSP2 that my sis gave me as an XMas
gift was a step up from the IBM Aptiva W98SE which I enjoyed. After a month of exploring XP and MedCen I thought 'can life get better?' . Right. Now I am not only upgrading to Vista Premium, but my new (old?) nVidia 6150 is trash for the new 19" LCD-W/S? Rats! How much for one of these 8800 jobs? Thanks tons for your assistance. "Russ" wrote: Unless you have pockets for Nvidia G8xxx series with Direct-X 10, Recomendations are Nvidia 76xx and up. ATI 18xx and up. Higher end of mid-line DirectX 9c cards. 256M video ram On the machines we have trialed so far, graphics is the number one bottleneck. All current machines, aftermarket video cards (ie not onboard). |
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Best Video card at this point of Vista developement
LOL
don't worry about nVidia 8800 Mark. they cost from $350 to $900 and unless you are a gamer you don't really need those. go for an ATI Radeon x series with a minimum of 256 MB vram on board (under $100) and you'll be fine (for aero and dvd's). "Mark" wrote: Ahhh, heck! This new HP MedCen Pav w/XPproSP2 that my sis gave me as an XMas gift was a step up from the IBM Aptiva W98SE which I enjoyed. After a month of exploring XP and MedCen I thought 'can life get better?' . Right. Now I am not only upgrading to Vista Premium, but my new (old?) nVidia 6150 is trash for the new 19" LCD-W/S? Rats! How much for one of these 8800 jobs? Thanks tons for your assistance. "Russ" wrote: Unless you have pockets for Nvidia G8xxx series with Direct-X 10, Recomendations are Nvidia 76xx and up. ATI 18xx and up. Higher end of mid-line DirectX 9c cards. 256M video ram On the machines we have trialed so far, graphics is the number one bottleneck. All current machines, aftermarket video cards (ie not onboard). |
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Best Video card at this point of Vista developement
I have the GeForce 5200, however i can not get the video card software to
install. I did get a driver from their site that works but as far as getting aero to work i am at a loss. I welcome any help. thanks! "dev" wrote: /joymac/ said: I am presently running vista ultimate on a amd Athlon 64 x2 with aNvidia Geforce 7300 gs microsoft drivers as I had some troubles with Nvidia driver installing and am going to wait till driver is out of beta before trying again. Performance index is only 3.2 on business and gaming graphics same machine using RC2 and Nvidia driver result was 3.4. I have the task of upgrading serveral machines to Vista shortly and am tring to get a idea of the best cards to use on slighly less powerful machines but must have dual monitor support vga/dvi vga/vga or dvi/dvi. Not looking for company loyalty responses. With PCI-E video adapters overtaking AGP, it makes sense to spend the minimum necessary on outdated technology. I can only say that here an MSI NVidia 5200 128Mb card does just fine - using a 22" widescreen LCD fed via VGA. Aero is fully functional, and video seems as peppy with Vista Ultimate RC2 as it did under XP for typical word processing, accounting and Net surfing. No games tested. |
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Best Video card at this point of Vista developement
I have a GeForce 5500 and I got the old drivers to install but still no aero!
I am just going to get a new video card! I think that both our cards will not run right with Vista. "-D" wrote: I have the GeForce 5200, however i can not get the video card software to install. I did get a driver from their site that works but as far as getting aero to work i am at a loss. I welcome any help. thanks! "dev" wrote: /joymac/ said: I am presently running vista ultimate on a amd Athlon 64 x2 with aNvidia Geforce 7300 gs microsoft drivers as I had some troubles with Nvidia driver installing and am going to wait till driver is out of beta before trying again. Performance index is only 3.2 on business and gaming graphics same machine using RC2 and Nvidia driver result was 3.4. I have the task of upgrading serveral machines to Vista shortly and am tring to get a idea of the best cards to use on slighly less powerful machines but must have dual monitor support vga/dvi vga/vga or dvi/dvi. Not looking for company loyalty responses. With PCI-E video adapters overtaking AGP, it makes sense to spend the minimum necessary on outdated technology. I can only say that here an MSI NVidia 5200 128Mb card does just fine - using a 22" widescreen LCD fed via VGA. Aero is fully functional, and video seems as peppy with Vista Ultimate RC2 as it did under XP for typical word processing, accounting and Net surfing. No games tested. |
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Best Video card at this point of Vista developement
-- freeway29 "Jamesfive5" wrote: I have a GeForce 5500 and I got the old drivers to install but still no aero! I am just going to get a new video card! I think that both our cards will not run right with Vista. "-D" wrote: I have the GeForce 5200, however i can not get the video card software to install. I did get a driver from their site that works but as far as getting aero to work i am at a loss. I welcome any help. thanks! "dev" wrote: /joymac/ said: I am presently running vista ultimate on a amd Athlon 64 x2 with aNvidia Geforce 7300 gs microsoft drivers as I had some troubles with Nvidia driver installing and am going to wait till driver is out of beta before trying again. Performance index is only 3.2 on business and gaming graphics same machine using RC2 and Nvidia driver result was 3.4. I have the task of upgrading serveral machines to Vista shortly and am tring to get a idea of the best cards to use on slighly less powerful machines but must have dual monitor support vga/dvi vga/vga or dvi/dvi. Not looking for company loyalty responses. With PCI-E video adapters overtaking AGP, it makes sense to spend the minimum necessary on outdated technology. I can only say that here an MSI NVidia 5200 128Mb card does just fine - using a 22" widescreen LCD fed via VGA. Aero is fully functional, and video seems as peppy with Vista Ultimate RC2 as it did under XP for typical word processing, accounting and Net surfing. No games tested. |
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Best Video card at this point of Vista developement
"-D" wrote: I have the GeForce 5200, however i can not get the video card software to install. I did get a driver from their site that works but as far as getting aero to work i am at a loss. I welcome any help. thanks! "dev" wrote: /joymac/ said: I am presently running vista ultimate on a amd Athlon 64 x2 with aNvidia Geforce 7300 gs microsoft drivers as I had some troubles with Nvidia driver installing and am going to wait till driver is out of beta before trying again. Performance index is only 3.2 on business and gaming graphics same machine using RC2 and Nvidia driver result was 3.4. I have the task of upgrading serveral machines to Vista shortly and am tring to get a idea of the best cards to use on slighly less powerful machines but must have dual monitor support vga/dvi vga/vga or dvi/dvi. Not looking for company loyalty responses. With PCI-E video adapters overtaking AGP, it makes sense to spend the minimum necessary on outdated technology. I can only say that here an MSI NVidia 5200 128Mb card does just fine - using a 22" widescreen LCD fed via VGA. Aero is fully functional, and video seems as peppy with Vista Ultimate RC2 as it did under XP for typical word processing, accounting and Net surfing. No games tested. For Nvidia, they only support Geforce 6x and up and Quadro for vista. Here is a link for x86 http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvist...supported.html I am sure x64 is the same. I upgraded an old machine to a 6200 agp card for less than $50 and it works fine. |
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Best Video card at this point of Vista developement
My Albatron FX5200 (128MB) is working fine using the default driver. All
features appear to be enabled, including Aero and flip-3D. Scrolling in flip-3D is a bit sluggish, but it's quite usable. I downloaded the latest beta from nVidia and was disappointed when the installer told me my card wasn't "yet" supported. The only reason I need it is so I can put one of my two monitors back into portrait mode. Using the Tablet applet to switch to portrait mode was a temporary disaster - both screens went blank (except for the screen displayed by Alt+Ctrl+Del - which was at least in portrait mode!). My solution was to uninstall the driver in Safe Mode, then reinstall. I tried several times with the same effect. The default driver also doesn't let me use different resolutions for each monitor. Otherwise, I'm happy with my FX5200. Vista gives my graphics a score of 2.0. To answer the original posting, from the nVidia side - given that a cheap FX5200 works adequately for non-gaming use - I think anything in the 6000 and above series of boards will do very nicely. "-D" wrote: I have the GeForce 5200, however i can not get the video card software to install. I did get a driver from their site that works but as far as getting aero to work i am at a loss. I welcome any help. thanks! "dev" wrote: /joymac/ said: I am presently running vista ultimate on a amd Athlon 64 x2 with aNvidia Geforce 7300 gs microsoft drivers as I had some troubles with Nvidia driver installing and am going to wait till driver is out of beta before trying again. Performance index is only 3.2 on business and gaming graphics same machine using RC2 and Nvidia driver result was 3.4. I have the task of upgrading serveral machines to Vista shortly and am tring to get a idea of the best cards to use on slighly less powerful machines but must have dual monitor support vga/dvi vga/vga or dvi/dvi. Not looking for company loyalty responses. With PCI-E video adapters overtaking AGP, it makes sense to spend the minimum necessary on outdated technology. I can only say that here an MSI NVidia 5200 128Mb card does just fine - using a 22" widescreen LCD fed via VGA. Aero is fully functional, and video seems as peppy with Vista Ultimate RC2 as it did under XP for typical word processing, accounting and Net surfing. No games tested. |
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Best Video card at this point of Vista developement
Have you actually downloaded the drivers for Vista from Nvidia?
If you need an AGP card, then the best AGP card you can get really is the Nvidia 7800GS, I don't think they've released any more powerful AGP cards than that. That's the card I run and it's excellent. You might be able to get it relatively cheap if you search. "joymac" wrote: I am presently running vista ultimate on a amd Athlon 64 x2 with aNvidia Geforce 7300 gs microsoft drivers as I had some troubles with Nvidia driver installing and am going to wait till driver is out of bata before trying again. Performance index is only 3.2 on business and gaming graphics same machine using RC2 and Nvidia driver result was 3.4. I have the task of upgrading serveral machines to Vista shortly and am tring to get a idea of the best cards to use on slighly less powerful machines but must have dual monitor support vga/dvi vga/vga or dvi/dvi. Not lookng for company loyalty responces. Thanks -- Trying to make sense of it all |
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Best Video card at this point of Vista developement
"joymac" wrote: I am presently running vista ultimate on a amd Athlon 64 x2 with aNvidia Geforce 7300 gs microsoft drivers as I had some troubles with Nvidia driver installing and am going to wait till driver is out of bata before trying again. Performance index is only 3.2 on business and gaming graphics same machine using RC2 and Nvidia driver result was 3.4. I have the task of upgrading serveral machines to Vista shortly and am tring to get a idea of the best cards to use on slighly less powerful machines but must have dual monitor support vga/dvi vga/vga or dvi/dvi. Not lookng for company loyalty responces. Thanks -- Trying to make sense of it all |
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Best Video card at this point of Vista developement
Hey, Ive built six or seven PC's for friends and family, and every time I've
had to deal with ATI cards I could not get the dual monitors selection to work! ATI would only let me choose one or the other, TV or monitor. I recently built this PC that I'm writing with now an ECS RS-482m with built in ATI graphics with a seperate connecter to the motherboard for TV out, and I still couldn't get it to work, I did the support thing back and forth to ATI and AMD with e-mails, and finally just went out and bought an nVidia PCI express card and viola, dual monitors. The folks at ATI act as if they've never heard of this before, or am I the only person that hooks his PC up to the TV so I can watch internet movies on the TV? Hmm. Anyways, thats my 2cents worth. -- Rockland2 Sherman Oaks, California "Kerry Brown" wrote: The brand of the card has more to do with stability than the actual chipset. I have had very good luck with Gigabyte cards using either ATI or NVidia chipsets. The ATI seem to have a crisper display. With ATI you can buy ATI branded cards direct from ATI which have support from the chipset manufacturer. As far as I know there are no NVidia branded cards. As far as ATI vs. NVidia, currently the drivers that are built into the RTM release are the most stable for both. I'd give a slight nod to ATI but some people have had problems with the sleep function on some motherboards. Changing to an NVidia card often fixes this. By the time Vista is publicly available this will probably change. In the past I have have found that overall ATI drivers (without installing the Catalyst Control Center) are the most stable but this changes as new drivers are released. I usually install the drivers that came with the card and never change them unless there are problems. Note - this is for business use. For gaming it's a whole different story. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca "joymac" wrote in message ... I am presently running vista ultimate on a amd Athlon 64 x2 with aNvidia Geforce 7300 gs microsoft drivers as I had some troubles with Nvidia driver installing and am going to wait till driver is out of bata before trying again. Performance index is only 3.2 on business and gaming graphics same machine using RC2 and Nvidia driver result was 3.4. I have the task of upgrading serveral machines to Vista shortly and am tring to get a idea of the best cards to use on slighly less powerful machines but must have dual monitor support vga/dvi vga/vga or dvi/dvi. Not lookng for company loyalty responces. Thanks -- Trying to make sense of it all |