Urgent - FX 5600 - Go for it?

[Travis King]

There's an FX 5600 brand new on ebay ending in 37 minutes. Should I go for
it. It's got 256MB of DDR video RAM and it's AGP 4x/8x.

 

[Travis King]

I'll probably go for it if there aren't any objections. That will settle
all my questions right now if I win. The fill rate on the FX5600 is 1300
vs. the 1100 the FX5500 has. The FX5200 has 1000.

 

[Travis King]

I won the card. I have a brand new NVIDIA GeForce FX5600 AGP 2x/4x/8x 256MB
DDR. I had to do the punk-ebay style where I bid in the last 35 seconds. I
got outbid and with just a few seconds remaining, I came back and rebid and
won. Total cost was $63.09. I would have paid that for an FX5500 off of
newegg.com, so I probably made a deal of about $10 to $20. (And you can't
find the FX5600 on newegg.com either.)

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Now the next step is to check nvidias website to find out if they have beta
drivers that support Glass for your card on Windows Vista.
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[Travis King]

Mine's in the list of being 'Vista-Ready' according to NVIDIA's website.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/technology_vista_home.html

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

You are good to go then.
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[Guest]

Correct.

Now... (drum beating noises,
tenses)..............................................

........turn on Aero Glass!

 

[Zack Whittaker \(R2 Mentor\)]

Ahh.. hold on there.... "Vista ready" doesn't actually mean the driver are
out yet... I had to discover that hurdle myself!

I bought my card (GeForce 6200 128MB I think) and it didn't work, even
though it said it was Vista ready. I'm just lucky they brought out drivers
for it the week after... so just be careful )

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[Travis King]

I will (drum roll) as soon as I get my hands on the Vista public beta. I
should get to at least play with the 'Aero' skin for my WindowBlinds now
with the Aero Glass. Now all I have to do is wait...
Wait for Vista and wait for my new video card.

 

[Travis King]

The NVIDIA drivers avaialable for download show that the following video
cards are supported with the drivers:

(Mine is in the list.)

GeForce FX 5100
GeForce FX 5200
GeForce FX 5200LE
GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
GeForce FX 5500
***GeForce FX 5600***
GeForce FX 5600 Ultra
GeForce FX 5600SE
GeForce FX 5600XT
GeForce FX 5700
GeForce FX 5700VE
GeForce FX 5700 Ultra
GeForce FX 5700LE
GeForce FX 5800
GeForce FX 5800 Ultra
GeForce FX 5900
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
GeForce FX 5900XT
GeForce FX 5900ZT
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra
GeForce PCX 5300
GeForce PCX 5750
GeForce PCX 5900
GeForce 6100
GeForce 6150 LE
GeForce 6150
GeForce 6200
GeForce 6200 with TurboCache
GeForce 6200SE with TurboCache
GeForce 6500
GeForce 6600
GeForce 6600 LE
GeForce 6600 VE
GeForce 6600 GT
GeForce 6610 XL
GeForce 6800
GeForce 6800 LE
GeForce 6800 XE
GeForce 6800 XT
GeForce 6800 GS
GeForce 6800 GT
GeForce 6800 Ultra
GeForce 7300 LE
GeForce 7300 GS
GeForce 7800 GS
GeForce 7800 GT
GeForce 7800 GTX
GeForce 7800 GTX 512
Quadro FX 350
Quadro FX 500
Quadro FX 540
Quadro FX 600
Quadro FX 700
Quadro FX 1000
Quadro FX 1100
Quadro FX 1300
Quadro FX 1400
Quadro FX 2000
Quadro FX 3000
Quadro FX 3000G
Quadro FX 3400
Quadro FX 3450
Quadro FX 4000 SDI
Quadro FX 4400
Quadro FX 4500
Quadro NVS 285
Quadro NVS 440