liveseytowers
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Registered: 18th Apr 05
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O< i want to get my PC ready for Vista so i'm wondering what to get for it.
I've got a Dell with a 2.8 P4 with 2 gig of RAM and a cheapo 2 years ago nvida 128meg Graphics card. I've got about 200 gig of space spread over 3 drives lol so i'll just get one 300 gig drive for £60 and keep the biggest of the other 3.
Obvious thing to upgrade is the graphics card but not sure which is a good one to get. I wont be playing games on it but would like to have the visual options on Vista cranked up to the max without killing everything else.
So what do you recomend and how much is it going to cost me?
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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nVidia GeForce 7600GT's go for about £120 these days, they come with a designed for vista badge on them so they will do. I think a 6800 would be alright too. Technically your current card would do the job, but you want something which has got 256mb of graphics memory on it, with pixel shader 2.0 that is 32bit. It also needs to run DirectX 9, but most cards do these days anyway...
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--Dave--
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I didn't realise Vista was that graphically intensive 
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
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gah... dont listen too these guys!
Yes, vista is going to be much more graphically intensive, espically the Aero flip.
Wait for the Dx10 Cards to come out, even if you only spend £110 or £300, there will still be dx10 cards, and that is the future.
Wait till xmas, or just after.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Vista just uses 3d graphics instead of 2d, any fairly recent graphics card does the job.
Wait for dx10 though, any dx9 card you buy now is obsolete as soon as vista and dx10 come out.
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--Dave--
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I wasn't giving him advice Bart, I honestly didn't know Vista needed such cards just to run it properly.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Vista isn't that much more graphically intensive, it just needs a card that supports the things it uses.
Built in intel graphics on laptops do the job if they have the required stuff.
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--Dave--
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to be honest I haven't kept up to speed with computers since getting a laptop 
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Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
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I had one of the first vista beta's running on a 9800 pro 256, and was using the final beta on it until i bought the laptop.
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