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  1. n2knee
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    February 1st, 2007 12:35 AM #11
    it seems like i just wasted $159.99 + tax of my hard earned dough....
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    February 1st, 2007 12:52 AM #12
    Quote Originally Posted by n2knee View Post
    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.
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    February 1st, 2007 04:05 AM #13
    Quote Originally Posted by Picard View Post
    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
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    February 1st, 2007 04:11 AM #14
    Antayin ko na lang yung 'Vista Woes' thread. Biro lang po. :D

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    February 1st, 2007 04:24 AM #15
    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..
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    February 1st, 2007 08:01 AM #16
    Quote Originally Posted by mikmik316 View Post
    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)
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    February 1st, 2007 09:54 AM #17
    i hope pumasa yung pc ko sa bahay. try ko l8r yong sa cnet.. tnx for the site
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    February 1st, 2007 10:50 AM #18
    Quote Originally Posted by Picard
    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)
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    February 1st, 2007 12:29 PM #19
    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
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    February 1st, 2007 02:47 PM #20
    Quote Originally Posted by badkuk View Post
    that's why hardware vendors just loooove microsoft B)
    Yup. My 2-year old hard-earned US$2000 laptop just reached its senility period.
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