Graphic cards

[busyboy]

Hi All,

I have Vista installed which is working with my Gainward Graphic card, but
with no Aero or 3D rendering.
So I am looking to upgrade my card.
Without breaking the bank I am open to suggestions as to what upgrade
graphic card I should go for, I have an AGP board.

Regards

Busyboy

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

If you're looking at ATI cards, then it's the 9600 range and upwards. If
nVidia, then 6000 series and up. I'm not sure whether the 5000 series
supports Aero, I'm not as familiar with nVidia cards as I am with ATI. I
still have AGP in my desktop, and I use an x850 Pro 256mb card in it and it
most definitely supports Aero.

Two other desktops in the household have built in graphics with the x200
chipset, and they also both support Aero, my notebook has HD2600 which also
supports it. If you're going for the ATI HD range, there is a hotfix now
available from most manufacturers, there was previously a problem with the
HD cards which had AGP (Vista couldn't find them!).

 

[dev]

/busyboy/ said:

Hi All,

I have Vista installed which is working with my Gainward Graphic card, but
with no Aero or 3D rendering.
So I am looking to upgrade my card.
Without breaking the bank I am open to suggestions as to what upgrade
graphic card I should go for, I have an AGP board.

With PCI-E now the graphics standard, it makes poor financial sense to
spend much on an AGP card for an "older" PC.

If you can locate an NVidia 5200 card - cheap - it may duplicate the
nice performance I see here. I do no gaming, but for the usual tasks
Vista Aero works flawlessly with this three-year old Pentium 4.

The driver package here is 9.6.8.5 - just about the last that NVidia
supported for the 5200 series.

 

[busyboy]

Hi Cari,

I have checked out the ATI cards and the numbers don't go up that high, was
that a typo 9600, should it be lower. I was checking out a Sapphire ATI
card.

Regards.

Busyboy.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

ATI's newer cards (post 9600) have much lower numbers. They have recycled,
so to speak.