cunawarit
October 3rd, 2006, 04:23 PM
Last Xmass I got a new Dell. It was a very cheap Celeron D 2.53 GHz with 1 Gb of RAM. The only minus point? The cheap motherboard has no AGP or PCI-E slots, it is all PCI.
I thought I was stuffed Aero wise, until manufacturers started looking into PCI cards again. I guess I'm not be that out of the ordinary, there has to be quite a few people out there with no option other than a PCI card, yet their machines are hardly old.
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=168116
Do you think fancy PCI cards likely to run Aero OK?
From this game-centric review it appears that performance is nothing to write home about...
http://www.techspot.com/review/15-visiontek-radeon-x1300-pci/
I have to admit that I run Windows Classic view and a very plain fluxbox theme because I don’t like desktop eye-candy. However, at the same time I want to give Aero a fair chance. I just need to decide if I am buying a whole new Vista ready PC or just investing on one of these not-so-good, yet kind of expensive, graphics cards.
I thought I was stuffed Aero wise, until manufacturers started looking into PCI cards again. I guess I'm not be that out of the ordinary, there has to be quite a few people out there with no option other than a PCI card, yet their machines are hardly old.
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=168116
Do you think fancy PCI cards likely to run Aero OK?
From this game-centric review it appears that performance is nothing to write home about...
http://www.techspot.com/review/15-visiontek-radeon-x1300-pci/
I have to admit that I run Windows Classic view and a very plain fluxbox theme because I don’t like desktop eye-candy. However, at the same time I want to give Aero a fair chance. I just need to decide if I am buying a whole new Vista ready PC or just investing on one of these not-so-good, yet kind of expensive, graphics cards.