Grapics cards suggestions

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I have an Asus V9180 AGP card 64MB and cant find any Vista beta drivers...
so if anyone knows of any that would be a great help...

...otherwise does anyone have any suggestions for an AGP card that has Vista
drivers available..nothing to flash as Im not into gaming but do want to run
Aero Glass.. say around £50UKP?

thanks!

TS
 
Forgot..ATI have Vista drivers for it.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Soundmax 4.0 Audio
 
Thanks Peter!


Peter said:
Forgot..ATI have Vista drivers for it.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Soundmax 4.0 Audio
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You're welcome. Curious I see that one does have a fan...mine doesn't...ah
well..I guess there are different versions.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Soundmax 4.0 Audio
 
Peter,

Well, I took your advice and went out this morning and bought a PowerColor
9550 256MB with ATI Radeon 9550 chipset... and am pleased to say it works a
treat! I picked up the Vista Beta drivers from ATI's website which installed
with the Catalyst Control Center. For some reason the first reboot ran like
a dog but after settling down and adjusting the graphics settings its now
running nice and smoothly. Oh and my card does have the fan on it! ;-)

I'm quite impressed with Vistas performance so far considering my PC spec
isnt exactly blistering, see below, Once I re-ran the performance check the
Aero scheme option was available... the performance rating comes in at a 2
even though all bar one items are a 3! strange! (756MB RAM = 2??)

Thanks again anyway!

Trev
Manchester, England
AMD 2000+
756MB DDR 400
ATI Radeon 9550
40GB 7200 IDE
 
That's great. I'm wondering why my video card which is the same model came
without a fan (it was in the sealed manufacturer's box), not that it seems
to get that hot anyway as I'm not much into games. Did you have to connect
it to the power supply separately?

By the way, I was born in Sunderland...just across those hills!! ;-)

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Soundmax 4.0 Audio
 
Hi Peter,

Im wondering if we have the card and not just cards with similar chipsets?
Mine is a PowerColor 9550.

Sunderland eh! Oddly enough my family came from there in the early 1900's!
Although I'd rather mine had opted for Toronto than Manchester ;-)
 
Re: the card...who knows...as long as it works. I've noticed several like
mine with a larger non ventilated cooling area, and the type with
fans...strange.
Regarding Manchester vs. Toronto, I know what you mean. Before coming here
with my job (retired now) I lived in London anyway.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
P4 D865GBF HT @ 3.0ghz 2.0gb DDR 450gb HD
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 Audio
 
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