PCI card for Aero

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I'm having a bear of a time finding a compatible PCI card for aero. I've got
a half way decent system ready to go (dual core 3.0Ghz, 2GB RAM) but no
PCI-E. The only PCI card I can seem to find in the varied HCL's is the
nVidia FX5500, but several owners of nVidia cards are complaining about their
performance.
 
Nvidia has dropped support for Aero in the 5000 Series Video Cards with the
97.46 Drivers. You now need at least a 6000 Series video card to run Aero.
Try Comp-USA or Best Buy if you are in the USA.
 
The Vista supplied drivers run Aero on Nvidia 5200 series boards and up.
Just don't update the drivers.

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Paul said:
I'm having a bear of a time finding a compatible PCI card for aero.
I've got a half way decent system ready to go (dual core 3.0Ghz, 2GB
RAM) but no PCI-E. The only PCI card I can seem to find in the
varied HCL's is the nVidia FX5500, but several owners of nVidia cards
are complaining about their performance.
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I get Aero nicely on my cheapo ATI Radeon X550 PCI-E card
 
I've seen a few nVidia fx5200 PCI cards on the shelves. So, you're saying if
I install the 5200 and let Vista use it's own supplied drivers, I'll get
aero?
 
Paul spake thusly on 1/18/2007 9:25 PM:
I'm having a bear of a time finding a compatible PCI card for aero. I've got
a half way decent system ready to go (dual core 3.0Ghz, 2GB RAM) but no
PCI-E.
Click to expand...

Dual Core and no PCI-E? Did you upgrade your processor at some point?
The only PCI card I can seem to find in the varied HCL's is the
nVidia FX5500, but several owners of nVidia cards are complaining about their
performance.
Click to expand...

What you want is an AGP card and not a PCI card.
 
Let me clarify that a bit.

I initially used a 5200 AGP video card. Vista loaded the native drivers and
I was able to get Aero. I had a system rating of 2.4. Since then I have
upgraded to a 6600 AGP which gives me a rating of 3.7.

So, it may be a bit of a jump to state that a 5200 PCI board will allow Aero
to be functional.

Maybe others will add to this with further information.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
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