Will a Geforece 5200 pci do Vista Aero?

Is a Geforce 5200 pci card sufficient enough to do Vista Aero?

dont think so... dont think that card can do much of anything

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Originally Posted by LordVampyre

dont think so... dont think that card can do much of anything

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What about a 6200 pci?

Don't bother with anything PCI. It may be able to run it if it is indeed DirectX9-capable, but I can only imagine how much it would choke.

-Douglas

Would the 5200 run Vista Aero? Theoretically yes, but it's more like a crawl - a very slow crawl. 6200 will be better but make sure you get a 128bit card.
Do you have to get a PCI card? PCIe and AGP are faster and cheaper.

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Originally Posted by RavenLord

Would the 5200 run Vista Aero? Theoretically yes, but it's more like a crawl - a very slow crawl. 6200 will be better but make sure you get a 128bit card.
Do you have to get a PCI card? PCIe and AGP are faster and cheaper.

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I am configuring a 5 flat panel system running Vista for a stock broker. The only way to get more monitors up is via the pci bus... it has two free slots.

We have ordered today x2 Geforce 6200 256MB 128bit PCI bus cards.

We had two ati cards in the system but they did not want to work with the main PCI-Express nVidia card. Something about Vista seems not to want you to be able to mix and match cards from different vendors... FYI.

Here is the card(s) we got:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...OTC-pr1c3watch

Yea you can't mix nvidia and ati video card, the drivers don't play well together.

TyMac, tell us how it went.

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Originally Posted by RavenLord

TyMac, tell us how it went.

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We shall find out tomorrow :)

I'll be sure to post about it!

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Originally Posted by PriMaTe

Yea you can't mix nvidia and ati video card, the drivers don't play well together.

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Yes.

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Originally Posted by TyMac

Is a Geforce 5200 pci card sufficient enough to do Vista Aero?

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yes it would "run" but it would suck why don't you have a agp slot :confused:

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Originally Posted by TyMac

I am configuring a 5 flat panel system running Vista for a stock broker. The only way to get more monitors up is via the pci bus... it has two free slots.

We have ordered today x2 Geforce 6200 256MB 128bit PCI bus cards.

We had two ati cards in the system but they did not want to work with the main PCI-Express nVidia card. Something about Vista seems not to want you to be able to mix and match cards from different vendors... FYI.

Here is the card(s) we got:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...OTC-pr1c3watch

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:o don't you ever go into computer stores and wonder how they have all of those monitors one pc and 1 video card:p , they have a muilt-monitor staton :o

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Originally Posted by RavenLord

TyMac, tell us how it went.

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Well everything is installed an aero is running great! I still think maybe the systen could use a little more ram... but that's up to them.

Thanks everybody for the help!

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Originally Posted by TyMac

Well everything is installed an aero is running great! I still think maybe the systen could use a little more ram... but that's up to them.

Thanks everybody for the help!

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you should of just saved money and bought a mult-monitor station :o

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Originally Posted by crystal scan02

yes it would "run" but it would suck why don't you have a agp slot :confused:

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Because, as he mentioned earlier, the primary video is PCI Express. AGP generally isn't necessary on motherboards with PCI Express slots.

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Originally Posted by crystal scan02

you should of just saved money and bought a mult-monitor station :o

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But having the same image on multiple monitors would be absolutely pointless.