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The annoying thing about graphics cards is that since PCI appeared, you have to pay more for old technology. You can tell I run on AGP eh lol. If you're looking for an AGP graphics card that's very good, but also affordable, I'd recommend the Radeon 9550. I ran on nvidia TNT2 Riva for a while, and I have to say it possibly the worst card I've ever seen. Beyond running freecel, and the occasional screensaver it's pretty useless
If you plan to use Vista and any DX10 games in the near future then I'd suggest not buying any cards at this point. Both ATI and nVidia have complete lineups of DX10 Shader Model 4 based cards around the corner... even games like BF2 are going to have DX10 eye candy / feature patches.
I think we may see another head to head of ATI vs NVIDIA with 8800 GTX vs X2800XTX, but I wonder, who has the money to buy a 30" display for gaming these days? Do games really take advantage of 30" displays? The market I think is ahead of current pocket books but that's just me.
i hope ati's dx10 solution is as good as or better than nvidia's, at least at first. nvidia seems to be taking a bit of a lead here in the graphics card race
Actually, nVidia is releasing the 8900GTX and 8900GTS to replace the current 8800 series. The biggest difference will be a slightly smaller nm process, which they'll exploit by ramping up the clock speeds. ATI is also releasing the x2900XTX, they simply skipped over a launch.
ATI is sticking to their launch schedule which is timed to coincide with DX10 itself becoming available. nVidia decided to launch the 8800 series to make a tidy profit, and will now launch the 8900 series to match ATI. nVidia is technically a good ways behind ATI right now simply because their driver support is still abysmal, they took most of a month before they could even release a WHQL certified driver for Vista while ATI was ready for it.
Infact, with nVidia the 7950GX2, and any other form of SLI with Vista is not supported. All of the mobile "GO" graphics cards are not supported. nTune for temp monitoring is not yet available under Vista, nor is vsync with nVidia drivers functional. FX series cards were not even supported until the WHQL driver release.
ATI however launched certified drivers and a rebuilt CCC center on the same day as Vista launched, and infact has released a slightly tuned/improved update to their Vista drivers already. Not to mention ATI seems to be only having half of the miscellaneous problems that nVidia users are raving about with games.
As I know sweet FA about graphic cards I was wondering if any of you could advice me on an AGP card that I can get in order to get the Glass & Aero affects on Windows Vista.
The specs for the computer I want it for can be found here and I don’t play games on PC’s so it’s just for Vista
If any of you have a suitable card for sale or for trade (I’ve got Vista Keys to trade) then let me know.
Any DX9 based graphics card will give you the full Vista Aero Glass effects. Any graphics card will tell you the hardware DX version it is based off of... my own 9600XT card is 3-4 years old now and still is DX9 based, and it works great with Vista. It won't play much of any games these days though, but I couldn't even sell mine for $50 with all the accessories on ebay. In which case you can probably fork out just half of that now to buy one...
I'd really like to see some of these amazing high-end GPUs make it into the next retail-configurable gen of Macs -- at least the Pro line. Actually, it would be great to finally have a prosumer line of Macs like the iMac with upgradeable GPUs. I find that I could get another few years out of my machines with fresh GPUs... though they do comfortably last 6+ years already.
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