Video Cards with Vista

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Mur21

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I am running Vista Ultimate and my score for my pc was a 2.6 and it is coming from my gaming graphics. I'm looking for a new card to upgrade and I'm confused on the whole bus thing. I wanted to know if a PCIe card fits in a PCI slot, because I think thats what my computer has. I didn't know if it was an upgraded type of card or a whole new type of bus and card.

If PCIe won't work what PCI card is recommended for running on vista my current video card is a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500?
 
Mur21 said:
I am running Vista Ultimate and my score for my pc was a 2.6 and it is coming from my gaming graphics. I'm looking for a new card to upgrade and I'm confused on the whole bus thing. I wanted to know if a PCIe card fits in a PCI slot, because I think thats what my computer has. I didn't know if it was an upgraded type of card or a whole new type of bus and card.

If PCIe won't work what PCI card is recommended for running on vista my current video card is a NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500?
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First let's find out what slot you have... Download and run this....

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/822i/GPU-Z.0.1.0.exe
 
You are going to be looking at a new board soon since PCI-Express 16x 1.0 and 2.0 replaces the AGP 8x/4x slot. A pci type video card would suffer a big performance loss in Vista since the new version of Windows is wrapped around the newer hardwares to a degree. Not too many pci models are geared for the new version.

The closest thing to the basic card you would need is an off brand instead of a name like BFG or EVGA for NVidia seen at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814139010 This was the only pci model with the 128bit memory interface.

For ATI the Diamond Radeon 1550 Pro is the best model seen at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814103031 This one also sees the 128bit memory interface on the GDDR2 model there. Both cards have 256mb of onboard memory.
 
I downloaded that program but it wouldn't run on my computer.

PC eye.....so basically I should just look to just buy a new computer?

thanks for the help
 
it sure sounds like you need to upgrade but you may be able to save your HDD and power supply
 
What make and model are you running now? If the board has an AGP port you could run a newer model like the ATI HD 2600 Pro. But you would also have to start looking at the cpu, memory, and board to see if it's time to go newer.
 
I'm running a dell dimension 4500S with Intel Pentium 4 2.0ghz with Vista ultimate. I think it does have a AGP port. Would that be the shorter looking open port that is next to my two PCI ports?
 
A short slot next to the first pci slot would be the PCI-E 1x slot. There should also be a longer slot past that one that would be the PCI-E 16x slot for actual use of the PCI-E type card. A full sized board seeing only twp pci slots even on P4 systems usually takes a PCI-E type card while there are still some newer boards that will still run AGP cards.

Not good for PCI-E! PCI yes. http://support2.jp.dell.com/docs/systems/dim4500s/specs.htm#1101572
 
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That is strictly a model seeing onboard video where you would add in a PCI not PCI-Express type video card to improve the video there. You would have to look at one of the latest models still sold for use with Vista.

At the present time newegg has some 14 models to look over at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N=2010380048+1069609642+1068309611&name=256MB with 256mb of onboard memory which would be the best choices for both NVidia and ATI to even consider.

For ATI the best choice would be the Diamond Radeon X1550 Pro seen at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814103031

Unfortunately the NVidia selection is limited to only one model to go newer then the older FX-5500 series model you are running being the Jaton GeForce 6200 model seen at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814139010
 
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