Nomen Posted March 28, 2015 Posted March 28, 2015 There are some MSI and PNY GeForce 210 PCIe video cards I can buy locally for about $45. I believe these have 1 gb DDR3 ram and have DirectX-10 support. XP is listed as a compatible OS on one of the boxes, so I'm assuming that both have full XP driver support.Where would these cards rank in terms of performance when it comes to the best cards that have ever been made with full XP (32-bit) driver support? Performance in this context is CAD/CAM and/or HD video playback (no game playing).
redwolfe_98 Posted March 28, 2015 Posted March 28, 2015 (edited) a video card that cost $45.00 is going to be a low performance video card, relative to other more expensive video cards.. a low performance video card is not all bad.. i use a low performance video card and i have no problem with watching videos with it, or with playing flash-based games online with it.. however, it can't be used to play intense video games with.. if you want a high performance video card for playing intense video games with, i think you would have to spend at least $180.00 for that.. at least that is what i would consider to be a true high performance video card.. Edited March 28, 2015 by redwolfe_98
Nomen Posted March 28, 2015 Author Posted March 28, 2015 > a video card that cost $45.00 is going to be a low performance video card, > relative to other more expensive video cards..At some point, what-ever card was the last high-end, expensive card that had XP drivers will become a cheap card. I believe that these Geforce 210 cards cost a few hundred dollars back when they came out.I have to assume that all video cards that have come out for at least the past 2 years can't be used under XP because of no drivers. If this is not the case - then let me know which Nvidia or ATI cards that are less than 2 years old have XP drivers. I had previous asked here if the Radeon R5 220 had XP drivers - and the answer was no. So I'm assuming that the last card made by ATI/AMD with XP drivers has been made - some time ago. What-ever that card was - I don't know. Maybe you know. Does the last card = the best card? I don't know.If it's true that the last video card with XP drivers, made by anyone, using any chipset, has already been made, then the universe of all possible cards that can run under XP is complete, and I want to know what was the "best" of all those cards in that universe.And again, I'm more focused on HD video playback and Cad/Cam desktop work. I don't know if being a good gaming video card equates to having good HD (mpeg, divx, blueray, mkv, etc) video playback capability.
vinifera Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 (edited) divx isn't HD, it will never bealso don't mix video containers with decoders, AVI, MP4, MKV... ... are just file containers that contain true encoded video and soundthey mean shit your GPU needs to support GPGPU/DXVA/H264/AVCyou have google for that and nVidia site if it supports that, then youre ok Edited April 1, 2015 by vinifera
redwolfe_98 Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 (edited) nomen, the real issue is the motherboard that your computer has.. if you have an old computer that uses an AGP slot for the video card, then your choices are very limited.. it is hard to find video cards for AGP slots.. if your computer uses a PCIe slot of the video card, then you have many choices.. as far as i know, all of nvidia's video cards are compatible with windows xp EXCEPT for their very newest video cards, which are the new 9.x line.. with AMD, you will just have to do research to see which of their video cards have drivers that are compatible with windows xp.. Edited April 1, 2015 by redwolfe_98 1
alubat Posted April 3, 2015 Posted April 3, 2015 (edited) I have been happy running gtx 760 in xp for more than a year :-) the new gtx 960 has xp driver support http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-960/specifications Edited April 3, 2015 by alubat
Guest Posted April 3, 2015 Posted April 3, 2015 (edited) If you want to know which nVidia cards have available reference drivers then you can always check nVidia's site. Their latest card to support 32-bit XP appears to be the GTX 960. AMD also has a website where you can find their own reference drivers. The R7-series seems to be their latest cards to support 32-bit XP, but I could be mistaken. I've had a GTX 650 Ti for almost two years working with XP x64. It's still a good gaming card, but I don't game much anymore. Edited April 3, 2015 by 5eraph
Kelsenellenelvian Posted April 3, 2015 Posted April 3, 2015 I can attest that the 960 gtx works great under xp
PPeti66x Posted May 18, 2015 Posted May 18, 2015 AMD R9 280x (3GB VRAM) works fine on XP SP3 (but some - mostly unused - features are not supported)
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