[Pc_Support] Re: [OT] One more time … Windows Vista system requirements

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 11:52 -0400, Damien McKenna wrote:
> You said yourself that a DirectX9-compatible video card will work, so  
> basically anything from a Radeon 9200 onwards

Er, I think you mean Radeon 9500 (R300-series), the 9200 is the same
series as the 8500 (R200-series).

> or a Geforce 6000 series onwards, which puts the price well under $100
> for even new cards.  Even $150 will give people plenty of video
> speed.  Heck, you can even get those cards in PCI flavors for people
> without AGP or PCI-e slots.  Am I missing something?

Yes, you're missing a huge point.

A NV4x/R3xx is the minimum to run Vista in _legacy_ GDI/Explorer mode.
I.e., it runs _much_slower_ to show the _exact_same_ as you have with XP
already!  You're _not_ using the new Avalon system at all.

If you want to actually leverage your GPU with Avalon and get any
performance kick and features, you need a _lot_ more power.  So it's
rather self-defeating -- because you could get the same without it.


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