Upgrading to Windows Vista

[n2knee]

I am going to upgrade my laptop's OS to Windows Vista Home Premium. Like many people, my main interest is the new Aero look that comes with the software. My main concern is my graphics card. The requirements to run this feature are:

support for DirectX9 graphics with WDDM Driver
128 mb of graphics memory (minimum)
Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware
32 bits per pixel

My current graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600. I've searched online to find out the specs of this particular graphics card to no avail. Can anyone in here advise me if my current graphics card can support Windows Vista Home Premium particularly its cool feature "Aero"?

Thanks in advance.

[swimstroke]

"Boasting NVIDIA’s state-of-the-art GeForce FX G05600, a 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 running on an 800 MHz bus, and 1GB RAM, this wide screen wonder is a gaming notebook if ever there was one. HP even opted for the 128MB Framebuffer version of the Go graphics chip which gives games added oomph. In 3DMARK2001 SE, the HP punched out a Maximum PC record of 10,672 3DMarks. This beats out the Radeon Mobility 9600 chip in the Voodoo M460 notebook by about 1,500 points."

The Satellite 5205-S705 is generally a stellar notebook, and MCE takes a big stride toward merging computers with mass media. "The 15-inch screen and the Nvidia GeForce FX Go5600 graphics controller with 64MB of memory deliver stunning saturated colors and excellent detail."

It seems like may 64 MB version na hindi pasok sa minimum.

Specifications ng vc: http://www.hothardware.com/viewartic...?articleid=381

[n2knee]

thanks. can i upgrade my graphics chip on my laptop or do i need to fully change the motherboard?

[Picard]

You guys might want to try the CNET Vista Readiness Advisor. It's free!

http://www.cnet.com/4520-33_1-6671810-1.html?tag=txt

My 2 year old Dell Inspiron 6000 passed but performance will have to suffer.
I only have a Single Core Pentium M 1.6GHz with a weakly 128MB ATI X300.

[n2knee]

You guys might want to try the CNET Vista Readiness Advisor. It's free!

http://www.cnet.com/4520-33_1-6671810-1.html?tag=txt

My 2 year old Dell Inspiron 6000 passed but performance will have to suffer.
I only have a Single Core Pentium M 1.6GHz with a weakly 128MB ATI X300.

my laptop passed all of the requirements for Vista Basic, but I want Home Premium.

[swimstroke]

Sa display properties nga pala kita yung memory size. AFAIK nakahinang ang chip sa mobo, so hindi pwede palitan. Double check nalang.

[boybi]

damn, hanggang vista basic lang kaya ng laptop and desktop ko?!?!

[Picard]

Sabi sa video if you want VISTA, PC's 2 years or older will have to go. I'm very interested with the Vista Ultimate version but i'm willing to wait till the Quad-core CPU's and GPU's come out.

[mikmik316]

Thank God I didn't buy a laptop with Intel Graphics... It's always tempting to have the Centrino sticker on your notebook to brag... Pero as usual all show no go pag Intel Graphics...

Mabuti mejo relax na rin ang requirements for Centrino Duo... you can have discreet graphics card basta you will still use the 945PM chipset.

[Picard]

Thank God I didn't buy a laptop with Intel Graphics... It's always tempting to have the Centrino sticker on your notebook to brag... Pero as usual all show no go pag Intel Graphics...

Mabuti mejo relax na rin ang requirements for Centrino Duo... you can have discreet graphics card basta you will still use the 945PM chipset.

On the contrary, the graphics will not determine you getting the Centrino sticker, you'll get this sticker if you purchased your laptop with the Intel Wireless Card.

[n2knee]

it seems like i just wasted $159.99 + tax of my hard earned dough....

[Jun aka Pekto]

I am going to upgrade my laptop's OS to Windows Vista Home Premium. Like many people, my main interest is the new Aero look that comes with the software. My main concern is my graphics card. The requirements to run this feature are:


My current graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600. I've searched online to find out the specs of this particular graphics card to no avail. Can anyone in here advise me if my current graphics card can support Windows Vista Home Premium particularly its cool feature "Aero"?

Thanks in advance.

I found this GF FX Go5600 specs within 10 sec in Yahoo:
http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=245

Aero video requirements:

• Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:
  • WDDM Driver
  • 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)
  • Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware
  • 32 bits per pixel

You meet most of the video requirements except for the 128mb ram. Unless you can adjust your agp aperture setting in the bios and bump it up to say 128mb, then you're sorry out of luck.

Add: Or it could be an agp aperture of 64mb plus the 64mb dedicated video ram which adds up to 128mb, maybe. I'm not sure about that aspect, though.

[mikmik316]

On the contrary, the graphics will not determine you getting the Centrino sticker, you'll get this sticker if you purchased your laptop with the Intel Wireless Card.

on the contrary sir... you will get the original centrino sticker if you bought from Intel the Pentium M + Intel Chipset & Graphics + Intel Wireless... that was the original plan all along... you buy the 3 components and you get the badge... now they became lenient to the fact that they dont have a high performance graphics to match Nvidia & ATI so they are just fine for the Centrino Duo program to have a Core processor + Intel Chipset + Intel Wireless...

Much like Intel vPro that you have to buy 3 components... a Core processor + Intel chipset + Intel Gigabit LAN...

So in your scenario... I can have an Intel Processor + ATI/Nvidia chipset + graphics + Intel Wireless and I will still do not get the Centrino badge even if I have the Intel Wireless Card

[OTEP]

Antayin ko na lang yung 'Vista Woes' thread. Biro lang po. :D

[Elroi]

also tried the Vista Readiness Advisor, i passed everything pero bitin yung video card.. need to upgrade to GeForce FX 5500 (AGP 8x, 128MB) to run things better..

[Picard]

on the contrary sir... you will get the original centrino sticker if you bought from Intel the Pentium M + Intel Chipset & Graphics + Intel Wireless... that was the original plan all along... you buy the 3 components and you get the badge... now they became lenient to the fact that they dont have a high performance graphics to match Nvidia & ATI so they are just fine for the Centrino Duo program to have a Core processor + Intel Chipset + Intel Wireless...

Much like Intel vPro that you have to buy 3 components... a Core processor + Intel chipset + Intel Gigabit LAN...

So in your scenario... I can have an Intel Processor + ATI/Nvidia chipset + graphics + Intel Wireless and I will still do not get the Centrino badge even if I have the Intel Wireless Card

Ah ganun ba depende siguro kung san mo purchase laptop. Kasi I have the Centrino sticker and my setup is just the Intel Chipset and Intel Wireless Card. My GPU is ATI. I bought my laptop at Dell online. As per notebookforums.com (not to date), Dell gives the sticker only when you purchase WITH the Intel Wireless. (when i bought my laptop, DELL only offers INTEL processors in all their lineup)

[evs_13]

i hope pumasa yung pc ko sa bahay. try ko l8r yong sa cnet.. tnx for the site

[badkuk]

Sabi sa video if you want VISTA, PC's 2 years or older will have to go

that's why hardware vendors just loooove microsoft B)

[Tacoma_34]

There is really no benefit for me to upgrade to vista. I only use my desktop for internet surfing and games. But maybe I will when Vista SP2 comes out. Heres my specs:
Xeon 3070 Conroe 3.7GHz
XFX 8800GTX (660/2GHz)-Latest from Nvidia
SuperTalent 1GBX2 DDR2-800

[Picard]

that's why hardware vendors just loooove microsoft B)

Yup. My 2-year old hard-earned US$2000 laptop just reached its senility period.