T
Travis King
My FX5600 arrived today. We'll see how it goes... When the public beta
arrives.
arrives.
K
Kevin John Panzke
You would be much better off with either a "NVIDIA GeForce 6800," or a,
"NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX."
"NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX."
Z
Zack Whittaker
True - they are bloody good cards! Having said that, it does come down to
whether Nvidia will support LDDM drivers for them or not
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whether Nvidia will support LDDM drivers for them or not
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Kevin John Panzke
Zack, according to the following Website:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/technology_vista_home.html all NVIDIA Graphics
Cards extending from the GeForce 5200 FX Series to the GeForce 7900 Series
are Windows Vista Ready Graphics Cards.
P.S. I very well may have gotten Original Poster's message messed up,
thinking that he was talking about an NVIDIA GeForce 5600 FX, when he also
might have been talking about an AMD Duel-Core FX 5600, if so I apoligize.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/technology_vista_home.html all NVIDIA Graphics
Cards extending from the GeForce 5200 FX Series to the GeForce 7900 Series
are Windows Vista Ready Graphics Cards.
P.S. I very well may have gotten Original Poster's message messed up,
thinking that he was talking about an NVIDIA GeForce 5600 FX, when he also
might have been talking about an AMD Duel-Core FX 5600, if so I apoligize.
T
Travis King
I have an Athlon XP 2400+ and AGP 4x, so I'd just have a bottleneck with
that high of a graphics card anyway. (Especially the 7800.) While I know
that most of any AGP 8x cards will support 4x, that'll just bring down the
performance and bottleneck. My motherboard supports only up to a 266MHz
FSB. (The 2nd revision of my board, however, supports 333, but mine's an
older revision. It's the Asus A7V333 motherboard.) I have a 400-watt PSU
(and just a CompUSA one at that.) That might be enough, but I don't know if
I would want to push my luck. (I have two sticks of RAM - 3 soon, the CPU,
FX5600, Creative Audigy soundcard, network card, 2 hard drives, 2 optical
drives, a floppy drive, and three case fans already. I also have
approximately eight USB devices connected to my computer right now.) The
cost to buy that expensive of a video card for my computer would be more
than it's worth, especially when on a budget like me I would probably have
to spend the price of a new computer to really get what you want and what I
want. (Because I wouldn't mind having a 6800 or a 7800.) We're talking a
three-year-old computer here, and I would like to hold off to build a new
computer until at least the first service pack of Vista is out. (Probably
two years from now.) I also have been considering having a cheap partial
rebuild done on my computer with just a few new components, (The
motherboard, CPU, RAM) but I'd think it would be almost easier to wait a
year or two and just build a whole new computer, especially when the
computers are more ready for Vista than they are now. If Aero Glass runs
poorly on my computer, I'll consider the partial rebuild, but if it runs
well enough for my needs, I won't worry about it - at least for now. I have
some sheets that I printed out that I will fill out where I will write some
of the software I have that works and what doesn't. (Or what works but has
problems.) I know there's some out there already, but some of them are not.
that high of a graphics card anyway. (Especially the 7800.) While I know
that most of any AGP 8x cards will support 4x, that'll just bring down the
performance and bottleneck. My motherboard supports only up to a 266MHz
FSB. (The 2nd revision of my board, however, supports 333, but mine's an
older revision. It's the Asus A7V333 motherboard.) I have a 400-watt PSU
(and just a CompUSA one at that.) That might be enough, but I don't know if
I would want to push my luck. (I have two sticks of RAM - 3 soon, the CPU,
FX5600, Creative Audigy soundcard, network card, 2 hard drives, 2 optical
drives, a floppy drive, and three case fans already. I also have
approximately eight USB devices connected to my computer right now.) The
cost to buy that expensive of a video card for my computer would be more
than it's worth, especially when on a budget like me I would probably have
to spend the price of a new computer to really get what you want and what I
want. (Because I wouldn't mind having a 6800 or a 7800.) We're talking a
three-year-old computer here, and I would like to hold off to build a new
computer until at least the first service pack of Vista is out. (Probably
two years from now.) I also have been considering having a cheap partial
rebuild done on my computer with just a few new components, (The
motherboard, CPU, RAM) but I'd think it would be almost easier to wait a
year or two and just build a whole new computer, especially when the
computers are more ready for Vista than they are now. If Aero Glass runs
poorly on my computer, I'll consider the partial rebuild, but if it runs
well enough for my needs, I won't worry about it - at least for now. I have
some sheets that I printed out that I will fill out where I will write some
of the software I have that works and what doesn't. (Or what works but has
problems.) I know there's some out there already, but some of them are not.