RE: [OT] - Best support under Vista...

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like a fair bit of support (if you'll pardon the pun) for
nVIDIA on
the desktop at least under Vista, the cards I'm looking at are advertised
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supporting either DirectX 9 or DirectX 10  ...

Currently trying to decide between these:

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-79GS
- which is a 7900
series DirectX 9.0 board but appears to have better hardware video decoding
support.

and

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-86GT5
- which is an
8600 series DirectX 10.0 board.

The only slight concern I have is that I installed Vista MCE on my HTPC the
other week and although it installed OK I found that any recordings and/or
playback of live video glitched and stuttered horrendously. There was a
later graphics driver for the onboard graphics (nVIDIA GeForce 6150 giving
progressive scan component video) which when installed simply turned
everything into monochrome blue and disabled the component video output -
and the glitching still remained - however it was a bit worrying that just
updating the driver goosed things so badly!

After that I tried a faster processor - an Athlon X64 4000 instead of an
Athlon X64 3000 - and a SATA hard disc instead of the current IDE drive and
made sure I didn't update the graphics driver but the problem still
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d
so God knows what's going on there - I've now gone back to the Athlon X64
3000 and IDE drive and XP MCE on that machine. ;-)

Sooooooo ... from what you guys have said I think I'll probably head the
nVIDIA route.

(Unless anyone has anything further to chip in?)=20

Cheers

Phil
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Paul Gale
> Sent: 22 June 2007 09:13
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] - Best support under Vista...
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> Been running Vista Ultimate here since it came out with action pack.
> Have 2 x nVidia 8800 GTX's and normal windows functions etc have been
> pretty good all along (once they actually got proper drivers out!).
> Mind you, these are DX10 drivers so may be a lot different to the
lower
> end cards?
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> Personally, I've mostly favoured nVidia over ATI. One reason is ATI's
> gaudy, chunky interface designed by a colour blind 7 year old! I've
> just never liked the way ATI drivers install and work etc.
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> Paul.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> > Of Phil Harris
> > Sent: 21 June 2007 22:37
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] - Best support under Vista...
> >
> >
> > Anyone got any opinions on who has the most stable graphics
driver
> > support
> > under windows Vista? nVIDIA or Ati? I'm about to order a low-end
> (about
> > =A3100) Dual-Link DVI capable graphics card and I'm trying to
decide
> > between
> > Ati or nVIDIA.
> >
> > I don't do any gaming (even though the motherboard is an Sli
capable
> > DFI
> > Infinity NF4) so given that the mobo has an nVIDIA chipset on it
I'd
> > probably look at an nVIDIA based graphics board in the absence of
any
> > other
> > deciding factors. Something like this...?
> >
> > http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-79GS
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
> >
> >
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