by dathem » Sun Jun 14, 2009 8:21 pm
Hello, Personally I have had issues with ATI cards even when they supported them! Besides they could next week, next month or next year, decide to drop your card. I am not going to say I never had a problem with some Nvidia card ie, taking out one card and putting in a different model, but was able to get them to work, usually just do a fresh install with the problem card installed and the OS told me what driver to use. So, I would pick the newest Nvidia card to install first, if you have unresolved issues then used the older one. I have 10 computers all using some model of Nvidia cards. I have swaped out different cards on most of these computers with nothing more than the OS telling me a newer driver is available, install it and go!
1)HPE-500F a 6 core @ 2.70 Ghz, with 8 gigs of Ram and a 1.5 T HD
the graphics card is an AMD Radeon HD 6450 with 512 MB DDR3 Ultimate Edition 3.2, Windows 7
2) HP Pav Elite m9040n Core2 quad 4gig ram Nvidia Geforce 8400, 640 g hd Win.7, UBUNTU 10.10
3) Gateway FX4710-UB0031 Core 2 quad 6 g ram Nvidia 8600gt-1gigddr3, 640g hd & Windows 7, & PCT Destined
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