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Posted 7/25/2006 2:54:20 AM


 

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Im running a 6600gt with vista and it works great. The only problem is system performance rating which says the card doesnt have sufficent ram, which is 128mb by the way.
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Posted 8/4/2006 7:21:41 AM


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there are work arounds to the xfi and audigy drivers so they work in vista (got my audigy 4 working right now on x64). My system on xp gets a 3DMARK 06' score of 6060, but on vista its only 4780. That like a drop of 1300 points! I use an ati 1900xtx and the ati drivers dont have overdrive, which kicks the GPU   up to 100% (or more if oc'd) when a 3D app running, without this i get crap score.


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5.0 score on Vista Ultimate x64, 6040 3DMark 06' score on XP

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Posted 8/17/2006 10:43:29 AM


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can run vista and the newest games with my radeon 9800 pro (128 mb) on almost best quality. (for three years now)



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Posted 8/17/2006 10:56:09 AM


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ive still to find a game that doesn't run on my old computer which has a radeon 9000 pro! But i play fps and there is a big difference between 25fps on medium and 50fps on high quality - it really gives you the upper hand.


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5.0 score on Vista Ultimate x64, 6040 3DMark 06' score on XP

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Posted 9/9/2006 9:07:25 PM


 

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For a cheap Glass upgrade on a second box of mine I ordered an AGP 6200 128M for $33 from Newegg...

Not gunna set any benchmark records but it runs Glass @ 1280 x 1024 just fine


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Posted 1/27/2007 12:36:44 PM
 

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I have a BFG GeForce 7600GT with 256mb GDDR3 memory and it runs it just fine. My only problem with vista is that my CD Drive seems to be a little slow. I have a 52x cd-rewriter and it just can't seem to be as quick as it was in XP.
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Posted 2/1/2007 4:22:40 PM
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I run the ATI Radeon X800XL and it runs Aero perfectly. It has a 5.9 rating for aero graphics and 5.0 for gaming graphics.

Asus Crosshair Mobo -- AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 OC'd to 3.34Ghz --
Arctic Cooling Pro 64 cooler/heatsink
4GB DDR2 533Mhz -- Two Nvidia 7900GS SLI'd
Soundblaster Audigy 4 -- 600w Antec PSU
Antec Nine Hundred Case -- 1TB Hard Drive space.
Windows Vista Ultimate -- Logitech G15 Keyboard
Logitech Z5300 5.1 Surround Sound -- Dual 17" LCDs sandwhiching a 22" Widescreen.
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Posted 4/26/2007 10:14:39 AM


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I removed the nVidia drivers and got an improvement on my Biostar GeForce 6800 XT (AGP).  Graphics score increased from 4.2 to 5.9 and Gaming graphics remained the same.

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Posted 4/26/2007 1:24:07 PM


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X1650 Pro here. Runs perfectly. Even oblivion with bloom and max AA plus everything else at max. Only problem is res. Can manage only on 1024x768 but gonna try again since i overclocked it. You kinda have to overclock this card as the fan runs only at 25 % (silent but slow) and there is a bottleneck with memory. However once you overclock it it runs perfectly.

Even with Aero Enabled in the background.

Graphics Card Specs:

Overclocked ATI SAPHIRE X1650 PRO 512 MB RAM.

Ram and core overclocked with fan running at 75% (noisy but I have lourder speakers)

BTW I am also an ATI fan. Their X1950 XTX owns any nVidia card except the 8800

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