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The old gap of what I want and what I can afford is now quite apparent when looking for an AeroGlass capable AGP Video card. I am currently pondering a Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro or XFX GeForce FX 5200. Anyone have any exoerience runnine Vista with the Aero feature on either card?

Don't waste your money for Aero Glass, its a little bit of translucent borders... that is it... However either will work.
"HagarTheHorrible" wrote in message

The old gap of what I want and what I can afford is now quite apparent when looking for an AeroGlass capable AGP Video card. I am currently pondering a Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro or XFX GeForce FX 5200. Anyone have any exoerience runnine Vista with the Aero feature on either card?

If you do want aero glass, at least wait unitl Vista ships....at that time, I expect the Video card companies to bring out DX10 cards, so the 6600GT should drop under $100, and the 7600Gt might even hit that level. I have both of those cards and they are very good cards.
"John" wrote in message

Don't waste your money for Aero Glass, its a little bit of translucent borders... that is it... However either will work.
"HagarTheHorrible" wrote in message The old gap of what I want and what I can afford is now quite apparent when looking for an AeroGlass capable AGP Video card. I am currently pondering a Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro or XFX GeForce FX 5200. Anyone have any exoerience runnine Vista with the Aero feature on either card?

There is a pretty good breakdown of what it takes to run Aero Glass on this page: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/evaluate/hardware/vistarpc.mspx Check the Premium column for GPU. There are links to five video card manufacturers. Each of those links leads to Vista specific web-pages including lists of Glass capable cards and current drivers for Vista for those cards for each of the companies.
"HagarTheHorrible" wrote in message

The old gap of what I want and what I can afford is now quite apparent when looking for an AeroGlass capable AGP Video card. I am currently pondering a Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro or XFX GeForce FX 5200. Anyone have any exoerience runnine Vista with the Aero feature on either card?

HagarTheHorrible wrote:

The old gap of what I want and what I can afford is now quite apparent when looking for an AeroGlass capable AGP Video card. I am currently pondering a Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro or XFX GeForce FX 5200. Anyone have any exoerience runnine Vista with the Aero feature on either card?

Mine runs fine on the Sapphire 9600. Frank

Thanks guys. Very much appreciated!
"fb" wrote:

HagarTheHorrible wrote: The old gap of what I want and what I can afford is now quite apparent when looking for an AeroGlass capable AGP Video card. I am currently pondering a Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro or XFX GeForce FX 5200. Anyone have any exoerience runnine Vista with the Aero feature on either card?
Mine runs fine on the Sapphire 9600. Frank

I am running the GeForce FX5200 PCI card with 128 megabytes of RAM and it runs Aero Glass very nicely.
William "fb" wrote in message HagarTheHorrible wrote:

The old gap of what I want and what I can afford is now quite apparent when looking for an AeroGlass capable AGP Video card. I am currently pondering a Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro or XFX GeForce FX 5200. Anyone have any exoerience runnine Vista with the Aero feature on either card?

Mine runs fine on the Sapphire 9600. Frank

Hmmmm...looks like I may be able to pull this off under budget....
"William R. Mosher" wrote:

I am running the GeForce FX5200 PCI card with 128 megabytes of RAM and it runs Aero Glass very nicely.
William "fb" wrote in message HagarTheHorrible wrote: The old gap of what I want and what I can afford is now quite apparent when looking for an AeroGlass capable AGP Video card. I am currently pondering a Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro or XFX GeForce FX 5200. Anyone have any exoerience runnine Vista with the Aero feature on either card?
Mine runs fine on the Sapphire 9600. Frank

It's funny how even PCI works with Aero Glass... "HagarTheHorrible" wrote in message

Hmmmm...looks like I may be able to pull this off under budget....
"William R. Mosher" wrote:
I am running the GeForce FX5200 PCI card with 128 megabytes of RAM and it runs Aero Glass very nicely.
William "fb" wrote in message HagarTheHorrible wrote: The old gap of what I want and what I can afford is now quite apparent when looking for an AeroGlass capable AGP Video card. I am currently pondering a Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro or XFX GeForce FX 5200. Anyone have any exoerience runnine Vista with the Aero feature on either card?
Mine runs fine on the Sapphire 9600. Frank