Graphic Cards I want some AGP card buying advice

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abhi.eternal

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I would like to know what is the cheapest AGP card that I can get using which I can get the Aero features in my desktop, I have a 64-bit proc and 1 GB RAM. I would like to keep the budget as low as possible because I don't really want an upgrade.. just the Aero (it should be Vista compatible of course)! I am planning to get the card today or tomorrow from SP Road. Please advise which card should I go for and how much its gonna cost me (any specific shop that I can try?). Thanks! :cool2:
 
got GeForce FX 5200 256MB DDR for 1660 incl. taxes... i am able to run Aero pretty smoothly on my system... i was having some problems ealier with my Radeon 9200SE.. it was freezing when playing videos and giving BSODs during restarts/shutdown... but now all okay... (i liked ATi better!)
 
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got GeForce FX 5200 256MB DDR for 1660 incl. taxes... i am able to run Aero pretty smoothly on my system... i was having some problems ealier with my Radeon 9200SE.. it was freezing when playing videos and giving BSODs during restarts/shutdown... but now all okay... (i liked ATi better!)

FX5200 for 1700 bucks? You got ripped off dude...
 
abhi.eternal said:
got GeForce FX 5200 256MB DDR for 1660 incl. taxes... i am able to run Aero pretty smoothly on my system... i was having some problems ealier with my Radeon 9200SE.. it was freezing when playing videos and giving BSODs during restarts/shutdown... but now all okay... (i liked ATi better!)

Radeon 9200 won't run Aero at all. It's Dx 8.1 with no driver support from AMD..:)
 
^^i already got to know that when i was using vista (ultimate). but at least i was not having blue-screen issues and could play GTA-SA fine. however, after installing windows 7 (ultimate), i just could not bear the problems (see below)... so just went out and got the cheapest AGP card that i could get in SP Road (and now gforce is saying i got ripped off!!)... anyways, all the problems were fixed and I have aero as well (yay!)... now can someone tell me what are the best games (i meant which my system can handle!) i can play on my system with this card, my config can be found on my rig... or shall i create a new thread for this query?

problems that i had >> blue-screens with ati2vdag.dll error when i tried to shutdown/restart/hibernate (hibernate and shutdown did not work btw as it restarted following the bsod!), system was hanging when play any video (only vlc worked!), could not use DVD Shrink (very imp!!), could not any ANY game, could not get visualizations in WMP... and no aero (frankly, this was the only thing i dint care about)!!!!!
 
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