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Best Video card at this point of Vista developement
Strange my 6800GT gets a 5.9/5.2 and its a pretty old card. In a Opty 170
nforce4 board... "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
Rockland2 wrote:
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. I have only one Vista computer, but there is certainly NO TROUBLE with the dual display on my Radeon X1950 Pro -- none. I've never hooked a TV to a computer. Ron |
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Best Video card at this point of Vista developement
Well after I installed Windows Vista I had a Graphics rating of 1.9 and a
Gaming Graphics rating of 1 using a Nvidia Gforce MX4000, today I purchased a Nvidia Geforce 6200 (256mb) and my ratings didnt improve. I tried updating my score and everything else but the scores don't improve, meaning I cant use Aero. I have already made sure that everything is set correctily (color, theme, etc) but it still wont work. Please any help would be greatly appreciated |
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Best Video card at this point of Vista developement
I'm running Vista Ultimate on Intel Dual Core 2.8ghz with 2 gigs of 800mhz
RAM, ATI Radeon X600 PCI Express with 256 DDR2 or DDR3 RAM. Graphics (Desktop performance for Aero) is 4.3. Gaming graphics (business and games) is 3.7. Card was around 250 almost a year ago, should be way cheaper nowadays. Card has dual display, DVI and VGA. I have Samsung 40" LCD usin DVI to HDMI cable and a 22" Viewsonic using VGA to DVI connector. Card runs perfect. I reconmend this to anyone on a budget. "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
I just installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my system: ASUS PC-DL Deluxe,
dual Xeon P4s-3.06; 2 x 500GB RAID1's; 2GB RAM - and have an ATI Radeon X1650 Pro/AGP - it gets 4.3 rating by Vista and honks in both business as well as gaming performance thus far. Rather than upgrade the entire system to a MB that has a PCI-Express, I stuck with the one I have - AGP works fine. ATI just released very stable Vista drivers that give you the full functionality they had in XP and then some. You can't go wrong with ATI - I agree that they have the most stable and best drivers currently for Vista. Color through RGB setting on my Viewsonic VX1935wm is stunning! Mark "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
It really all depends on how much your willing to spend and/or how much
performance you "really" need. The 7300GS is a budget card, its not designed for heavy duty use. I built a few vista machines this week at work with 7100GS, 7600GT and 8800GTX. I myself use a 7900GT. If your going to open lots of programs at the same time and really use dual display alot, your going to need at least a 7900GT 256mb. Aero uses graphics memory to display the 3d images. You may find that depending on the work your doing (EG: CAD 3d in backgroud and/or more intense apps.), you will need a 7950GT-512mb or even a 8800GTS-320mb / 880GTX. Its really hard to say what you will need, simply because each user is different. I would suggest that you look over the application usage of your users before buying a load of cards. You will be able to get away with a 7600GT, but as i said above, dual displays and usage is going to make a bigger difference on performance in vista than most people think. For example, using a 7100GS it could handle 1 window open, more than that and performance (frame rates) were reduced by half. This was with a core2 duo 6300. My pc at home uses a 7900GT and a core2 duo 6400, i have no problems with display lag, nor do i have to be careful about how many windows i have open. (100.59 drivers beta) Good luck with ur findings for a card. "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
i was running an ATI radeon X850 pro agp card (prob less than £100 now), its
got dual output, i was runing a 19" lcd and the other display was through my LG 50" HD plasma, all worked perfect, the display on the plasma was 1900 and on the lcd was 1280, i could play all latest games like ghost recon advanced warfighter at full detail no probs, ive only got rid because hav upgraded to Sli, which i now have the x1950xtx in running on Vista no problem, but at the moment Vista is a little slower on benchmarks than XP in the same PC, but theyre getting there, ive tried 2x geforce 7900gs cards in but no real support from nvidia on Vista so went back to the Ati until the DirectX 10 war starts between the big guns, so the prices come down hope this helps a bit, if i`m not to late "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
using 7900 gt (nvidia) with vista ultimate 32 bit got an index of 5.9 ! works
gr8 "markus" wrote: "-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
I am running an NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP card with a 5.9 rating... this on
a three year old Pentium 4 3.0gig processor with 4.0gig of memory..the card is awesome and reasonably priced.... my overall computer rating is 4.2 should work well for you ...I would not see why not? good luck ..this is on Vista Home Premium Upgrade edition also "joymac" wrote: Mainly for business Also should include that the cards I will be looking for are AGP. This is going to be a recomended product so stability is importannt as well if I can give a report that it has an index of ?? that much better thanks for the info. -- Trying to make sense of it all "Clint" wrote: What do you mean by "best"? For gaming? Dual displays? I'm using an ATI X1800 GTO card, get 5.7 for business and gaming graphics. Does alright but nothing exceptional. Has dual DVI, came with 2 VGA adapters as well. I'm using it with a 20" WS LCD and a 19" CRT. Clint "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 |