Looking for Video Card Advice

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After upgrading to Vista, I find that was once my state-of-the-art video card
(Nvidia FX-2000) won’t run Vista worth a darn. I am a professional
phhotographer and live within numerous applications that utilize dual monitor
setups. While my existing FX-2000 does OK with single monitor, it is slower
than $#*&% with dual monitor use (is actually un-usably slow).

I plan on updating to 64 bit Vista, but waiting for some drivers will make
that upgrade about 6 months or so away. At that time I will buy a completely
new machine, start from scratch and toss the old machine along with this
video card that I buy away. My current HP workstation has two Xeon
processors, 4 GB RAM, SCSI drives but is limited to a PCI (NOT PCI-E) for
video. All I can seem to find are PCI-E cards. Can anyone recomened a “goodâ€
video card, that supports dual monitors, runs fast in Vista 32 BIT and is PCI
NOT PCI-E. Based on the PCI and NO PCI-E requirement, I am guessing I have
have to try to find one on eBay, but I need a Vendor / Model # to look for.
 
Even if you find a half decent PCI video card on eBay or wherever, the
chance that such old technology is properly supported in Vista is as good as
finding the video card.

To run Vista 'any flavor, you are going to have to look at replacing the
entire machine, as good as it might/may have been


AzPhotoGuy said:
After upgrading to Vista, I find that was once my state-of-the-art video
card
(Nvidia FX-2000) won’t run Vista worth a darn. I am a professional
phhotographer and live within numerous applications that utilize dual
monitor
setups. While my existing FX-2000 does OK with single monitor, it is
slower
than $#*&% with dual monitor use (is actually un-usably slow).

I plan on updating to 64 bit Vista, but waiting for some drivers will make
that upgrade about 6 months or so away. At that time I will buy a
completely
new machine, start from scratch and toss the old machine along with this
video card that I buy away. My current HP workstation has two Xeon
processors, 4 GB RAM, SCSI drives but is limited to a PCI (NOT PCI-E) for
video. All I can seem to find are PCI-E cards. Can anyone recomened a
“goodâ€
video card, that supports dual monitors, runs fast in Vista 32 BIT and is
PCI
NOT PCI-E. Based on the PCI and NO PCI-E requirement, I am guessing I have
have to try to find one on eBay, but I need a Vendor / Model # to look
for.
Click to expand...

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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
 
Even if you find a half decent PCI video card on eBay or wherever, the
chance that such old technology is properly supported in Vista is as good as
finding the video card.

To run Vista 'any flavor, you are going to have to look at replacing the
entire machine, as good as it might/may have been
Click to expand...

There are still decent enough AGP cards being made. He certainly doesn't
need a gamer's DX10 PCI-E card for his purposes and something like a
Geforce 7600GT will run Vista fine. Here's a list of decent AGP cards
still being made. The fastest AGP card still being made is the Radeon X1950
XT (by Gecube) which is no slouch.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/09/05/the_best_gaming_video_cards_for_the_money/page5.html
 
I don't think that the OPs board has an AGP slot..


Juarez said:
There are still decent enough AGP cards being made. He certainly doesn't
need a gamer's DX10 PCI-E card for his purposes and something like a
Geforce 7600GT will run Vista fine. Here's a list of decent AGP cards
still being made. The fastest AGP card still being made is the Radeon
X1950
XT (by Gecube) which is no slouch.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/09/05/the_best_gaming_video_cards_for_the_money/page5.html
Click to expand...

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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
 
What is an AGP slot - I know I have PCI, but I don't recognize the AGP stuff
- how can I tell?
 
Doesn't look like I have an AGP slot.
All I am trying to do is get something on a temp basis. No sense of buying a
new 64 bit capable machine today, not really using it's capabilities for 6
months or so while waiting for drivers and then finding it is old and
obsolete by the time I can actually use it. I thought if I can find a decent
PCI video card and it costs me 4 or 5 hundred than it is costing me $20 a
week or so not to go insane from slow performance issues.
 
<http://www.hisdigital.com/html/product_ov.php?id=285>
HIS X1550 iFan 256MB (64bit) DDR2 Dual DVI PCI

* Powered by ATI Radeon X1550 - 550MHz
* 256MB-64bit 4 channel DDR2 memory - 800MHz
* 4 Pixel shader processor
* 2 Vertex shader processor
* 4 Geometry Pipelines
* Ultra-threaded SM 3.0 Engine
* ATI Avivo™
* High Precision Architecture
* PCI lane native support
 
This card has a standard 32-bit PCI interface. The 64-bits is the data
path between the graphics memory and graphics processor on the card.
 
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