I've been using a 6600GT in my system (Vista and XP) for a couple of years.
It has worked fine, but now I'm thinking of upgrading and I'm considering
the 9600GT. I'm not a gamer - I'm looking for faster redraws on the
desktop. Vista in particular has native support for hardware acceleration
and I'm wondering if the 9600GT will give me a noticeable increase in speed?
TIA
Victek wrote:
> I've been using a 6600GT in my system (Vista and XP) for a couple of
> years. It has worked fine, but now I'm thinking of upgrading and I'm
> considering the 9600GT. I'm not a gamer - I'm looking for faster
> redraws on the desktop. Vista in particular has native support for
> hardware acceleration and I'm wondering if the 9600GT will give me a
> noticeable increase in speed? TIA
"Vista in particular has native support for hardware acceleration".
Are you ignorant or being purposely misleading? So does XP.
Your card is fine for what you are using it for, but buy that 9600GT if
you want a snappy desktop as it will give you a snappy desktop.
So you are overbuying a card designed for gaming, big deal... you don't
seem too attached to rigorous facts and gaming might thusly do you some
good.
"Victek" <Victek@invalid.invalid> schreef in bericht
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> I've been using a 6600GT in my system (Vista and XP) for a couple of
> years. It has worked fine, but now I'm thinking of upgrading and I'm
> considering the 9600GT. I'm not a gamer - I'm looking for faster redraws
> on the desktop. Vista in particular has native support for hardware
> acceleration and I'm wondering if the 9600GT will give me a noticeable
> increase in speed? TIA
Not if Your mobo has an AGP slot for the vga card, than it is not suitable
fot that modern card (perhaps You know that and have therefore not mentioned
it but I mention it just to make sure You would know; 6600GT's were there in
the AGP era as well). For the things You desire, it will help You. In Vista
You a good card will help speed up the desktop stuff, if the redrawing is to
slow in XP as well You might check out other causes for that because there a
6600GT should be more than enough.
>> I've been using a 6600GT in my system (Vista and XP) for a couple of
>> years. It has worked fine, but now I'm thinking of upgrading and I'm
>> considering the 9600GT. I'm not a gamer - I'm looking for faster redraws
>> on the desktop. Vista in particular has native support for hardware
>> acceleration and I'm wondering if the 9600GT will give me a noticeable
>> increase in speed? TIA
>
> Not if Your mobo has an AGP slot for the vga card, than it is not suitable
> fot that modern card (perhaps You know that and have therefore not
> mentioned it but I mention it just to make sure You would know; 6600GT's
> were there in the AGP era as well). For the things You desire, it will
> help You. In Vista You a good card will help speed up the desktop stuff,
> if the redrawing is to slow in XP as well You might check out other causes
> for that because there a 6600GT should be more than enough.
>
> Good luck!
> Yours sincerely,
> Rene
>
Good point about AGP. Fortunately, my mobo has a PCI-e slot so that's not a
concern. Regarding the 6600GT, I wouldn't call it slow but if I can get
more speed on the desktop by upgrading to a 9600GT it would be worth it.
The 6600GT is quite overkill for drawing puny transparent windows and icons
in Vista.
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"Victek" <Victek@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> Good point about AGP. Fortunately, my mobo has a PCI-e slot so that's not
> a concern. Regarding the 6600GT, I wouldn't call it slow but if I can get
> more speed on the desktop by upgrading to a 9600GT it would be worth it.
>
>
Victek wrote:
>>> I've been using a 6600GT in my system (Vista and XP) for a couple of
>>> years. It has worked fine, but now I'm thinking of upgrading and I'm
>>> considering the 9600GT. I'm not a gamer - I'm looking for faster
>>> redraws on the desktop. Vista in particular has native support for
>>> hardware acceleration and I'm wondering if the 9600GT will give me a
>>> noticeable increase in speed? TIA
>>
>> Not if Your mobo has an AGP slot for the vga card, than it is not
>> suitable fot that modern card (perhaps You know that and have
>> therefore not mentioned it but I mention it just to make sure You
>> would know; 6600GT's were there in the AGP era as well). For the
>> things You desire, it will help You. In Vista You a good card will
>> help speed up the desktop stuff, if the redrawing is to slow in XP as
>> well You might check out other causes for that because there a 6600GT
>> should be more than enough.
>>
>> Good luck!
>> Yours sincerely,
>> Rene
>>
> Good point about AGP. Fortunately, my mobo has a PCI-e slot so that's
> not a concern. Regarding the 6600GT, I wouldn't call it slow but if I
> can get more speed on the desktop by upgrading to a 9600GT it would be
> worth it.
>
>
You won't, idiot. Outside of Aero, you're looking at traditional single
buffered GDI acceleration. Every card since I can't remember when (and
I've been around since the days of a Cirrus Logic GD-5424) has had
Windows GUI acceleration.
Windows by design up until Vista has been limited in redraw abilities
due to the GDI framework. Aero is a composited desktop so you can have
a double or triple buffered framerate with no overdraw and no garbage.
And even with Aero, you only need a specific minimum of shader power and
memory bandwidth on the GPU to accelerate it optimally. There's a
published developer spec from before Vista's release, but the
suitability of a card for Aero is determined by an equation that takes
into account it's fillrate, shader ops, and bandwidth.
AFAIK any Geforce FX class card FX5700 and above with 128MB RAM,
fulfills this requirement easily.
In article <g62ve5$vh2$1@registered.motzarella.org>, Victek@invalid.invalid says...
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> >
> Good point about AGP. Fortunately, my mobo has a PCI-e slot so that's not a
> concern. Regarding the 6600GT, I wouldn't call it slow but if I can get
> more speed on the desktop by upgrading to a 9600GT it would be worth it.
>
I don't know what you mean by more speed on the desktop exactly, but
I remember there was a registry setting that you could change that
decreased the wait time between redraws to speed the desktop up a
bit. Might have been in Powertools for WinXP from MS.
Any Video card build within the last 10 years should be fast enough to
redraw the desktop, but I I had a problem with a GF 6600GT myself not
redrawing the Screen fast enough. I finally solved it in XP by using the
"PCI latency tool" (Though it was an AGP card). After setting the latency to
64 it worked until next reboot. Don't ask my why, but it worked :-). After I
had switched to Vista I didn't need it anymore. Now I got a GF8800 GTS.
That's great for gamin but no difference in 2D as long as everything is set
up as it should be.
"Victek" <Victek@invalid.invalid> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> I've been using a 6600GT in my system (Vista and XP) for a couple of
> years. It has worked fine, but now I'm thinking of upgrading and I'm
> considering the 9600GT. I'm not a gamer - I'm looking for faster redraws
> on the desktop. Vista in particular has native support for hardware
> acceleration and I'm wondering if the 9600GT will give me a noticeable
> increase in speed? TIA
6600GT to 9600GT - worth it? 
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