EVGA 7950GTX, vista ready?

Dfran · Posted: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:33:36 Post Subject: EVGA 7950GTX, vista ready?

This card states that it is ready for Windows Vista. It comes with dx9 still though. isn't Vista dx10? How can they say that it's ready for it?
Thanks

BeerCheeze · Posted: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:35:08 Post Subject:

Because they have drivers that support it under Vista.

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:02:17 Post Subject:

I'm still going to be laughing at those using Vista. Gotta pay to get the latest and greatest just to meat minimum specs, and running those graphics cards at the 3-D clocks, meaning plenty of heat and power consumption while doing small tasks like email and web surfing.

Hahaha << that laugh I was talking about at the beginning of this post ;-)

edvallie · Posted: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:54:42 Post Subject:

didn't think DX10 was mandatory for vista, just supported.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Correct. Also, just for giggles, I ran Vista on a machine WELL below the min specs, and after turning off the aero and the other fun/frill type UI stuff it ran just fine.

This was on a really old IBM T20 laptop, think it was an 800mhz with 256mb ram.

edvallie · Posted: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 03:40:57 Post Subject:

maybe i should test it on my 733mhz t-bird Grin

mrweasel · Posted: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:14:35 Post Subject:

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

hehe No, it's not the free "beta" version of Vista...I have a MSDN Universal account so I have the current beta version, which has improvements over the free beta version...

mrweasel · Posted: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:38:46 Post Subject:

what build do you have....I'm on 5456

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Don't know off the top of my head. I'm at work right now. I know it's a build that was just released last Wednesday (7/19). Least that's when it was posted to the MSDN site.