10 Best Graphics Cards for Windows Vista
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Out of thousands of reviews for 285 products, over 500 people recommended Graphics Cards specifically for Windows Vista. These 10 are the most highly recommended products we found.
ATI FireGL X1-256p FGL 9700
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$169
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39 People Recommend
"very fast card scored 5.9 on vista 64 quality test (thats as good as it gets) card feels very solid and the cooling system works great.…" - BIGIRON at Newegg.com "a media center box so i put it into a computer with an m2n-sli deluxe with a 5000 black processor overclocked to 3.0g, 2g ram and onboard audio (until i upgrade), running on vista ultimate 32 bit.…" - Captain Bob at Newegg.com "on vista it could barely run it on 1680 x 1050 medium settings.…" - iamtheknight at Newegg.com |
VGA SAPPHIRE|100210L 2600XT 256MB R
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$90
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26 People Recommend
"i'm not ready to build another computer so i decided to give some life to my rig by giving it some more ram, new vista os, and this graphics card, and it feels like a whole new computer!…" - Tigerdirect.com User "a media center box so i put it into a computer with an m2n-sli deluxe with a 5000 black processor overclocked to 3.0g, 2g ram and onboard audio (until i upgrade), running on vista ultimate 32 bit.…" - Captain Bob at Newegg.com "very fast card scored 5.9 on vista 64 quality test (thats as good as it gets) card feels very solid and the cooling system works great.…" - BIGIRON at Newegg.com |
Gigabyte GV-NX86T256H GeForce 8600GT
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$72 - $99
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20 People Recommend
"greatly improved vista performance versus the 7100gs card it replaced.…" - Newegg.com User "i read the tech specs, and under there it said that this card was ""certified for windows vista"".…" - fierceyoda at Newegg.com "other thoughts: i'm using this card in a system running windows vista home premium 64-bit.…" - N/A at Newegg.com |
MSI RADEON HD 2600 XT
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$96
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20 People Recommend
"(vista also picks it up as a 5.9 out of 1-5!!)…" - Nigel E at Newegg.com "with 2 more gig of ram and vista 64.running crysis on very high specs.running at 1650x1080.no aa new egg delivered fast.first nvidia card i bought and very pleased.had 5 atis.…" - N/A at Newegg.com "the witcher (which came with it when i bought it) runs really poorly in vista, like powerpoint.…" - N/A at Newegg.com |
NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
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$80
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20 People Recommend
"other thoughts: weird, but even though my testing shows this card runs circles around my old 7900gs in all apps, vista still rates it lower for its performance rating.…" - N/A at Newegg.com "other thoughts: temps hover around 52-54 idle on vista, same as my old gpu, though these temps may be the fault of my case and ventilation more than the card.…" - Fiskars007 at Newegg.com "i use ntune for overclocking, and it will not hold its clock while using vista, but i guess that is to be expected.…" - N/A at Newegg.com |
MSI RX1950Pro-TD256E RADEON X1950PRO
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$192
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20 People Recommend
"(vista also picks it up as a 5.9 out of 1-5!!)…" - Nigel E at Newegg.com "this card runs vista x64 pretty sweet.…" - Shift. at Newegg.com "with 2 more gig of ram and vista 64.running crysis on very high specs.running at 1650x1080.no aa new egg delivered fast.first nvidia card i bought and very pleased.had 5 atis.…" - N/A at Newegg.com |
MSI RADEON X1650GT PCIE 256MB DDR3 2PORT DVI TV
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$80 - $88
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19 People Recommend
"other thoughts: if your going to play direct x 9 games or before this is the card to get direct x 10 dont play 9 games all that well what i read and if your not going to vista rite away why buy a 10…" - Newegg.com User "(vista also picks it up as a 5.9 out of 1-5!!)…" - Nigel E at Newegg.com "with 2 more gig of ram and vista 64.running crysis on very high specs.running at 1650x1080.no aa new egg delivered fast.first nvidia card i bought and very pleased.had 5 atis.…" - N/A at Newegg.com |
eVGA GeForce 8600 GT
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$59 - $122
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16 People Recommend
"summary: bought this card for my second comp and it works extremely well with vista.…" - Mwave.com User "i have vista ultimate 64 bit and there is not actually no such of a graphic driver for this kind a windows to run sli correct.…" - Newegg.com User "other thoughts: for those who care, on the vista computer performace rating this card got a 5.9 for graphics and a 5.6 for gaming graphics…" - Newegg.com User |
EVGA GeForce 8500 GT
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$50 - $102
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12 People Recommend
"awsome card for windows vista.…" - Tigerdirect.com User "however, my vista index went up from 3.3 to 4.7 when i installed this card.…" - Dell.com User "the latest drivers from nvidia are very stable and this card has ran error free in vista home premium.…" - Dell.com User |
HIS H260XTQT512DDN-R HD 2600XT IceQ Turbo HDMI 2x
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$106
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9 People Recommend
"even though this is a directx 10 card, it is not restricted to vista users only.…" - Newegg.com User "to 3.6 ghz), 4gb ddr2 pc800 patriot ram, his radeon hd 2600xt 512 mb 128-bit gddr3 pci-e x16, 2 500gb 3.0gb/s sata westerndigital hdds, vista ultimate 64-bit.…" - Newegg.com User "runs smooth in both xp and vista.…" - N/A at Newegg.com |
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