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I do not know if it supports Vista or Windows 7. This card more than fit the bill. I was in dire need of a video card because of my old Dell having poor graphics performance. However, it has a 3-year warranty.For installation, be sure to disable the graphics adapter on the motherboard BIOS, and in the device manager, before installing, or it may not boot to Windows properly. Everything is much faster now, which is to be expected, but the degree of speed-up is surprising, especially for the price of the card. It has 64MB DDR Memory, 1 DVI and 1 VGA port. You can usually boot to safe mode to fix this issue. Also, as is the case with many ATI compatible products; if you need to uninstall it, be sure to uninstall the ATI driver before switching cards, or you may have issues with driver conflicts.
FROM MY SURCH FOR THIS PRODUCT WAS HARD BUT ,I FOUND IT NOT INSTALLED YET BUT WILL GET THERE OUR FAMAOUS USPS LOST MY MENORY order STILL WAINTING TO INSTALL HA. HA.
Ability to play HD video was not among my requirements. This product is obsolete. I got it to support a larger screen through DVI input on a lightly used (web & typing stuff) older machine that only has PCI slots available. I quickly found out it should have been. However, this card offers no HW acceleration for HD video and the machine itself is too slow.Doing a little more research, there are PCI (not -E) cards out there that offer more performance and even HD video acceleration for $50 or so.Other than that, the performance is satisfactory for web and typing stuff.
I got this to "upgrade" a Pentium 4 Dell desktop my wife has to go with a new monitor (HP w2207. Since We got this computer in 2003, I didn't want to spend very much. Excellent monitor). The DVI connection works nice as well as being able to handle two monitors. Under $40 was the price and the next level up was a 256k for twice that. Works fine for daily use although this machine isn't for gaming.
Got two of these cards mainly to run four vga monitors (to on each card) with an hp dc5700 business machine. Installed itself with proper drivers, totally silent, fast on all my programs running core 2 duo 6700 with 4 gig on board. Video over internet smooth at 300k playback on dsl Bellsouth connection. My old cards only went up to 75htz and 85htz refresh rates. Note: I'm told multiple pci cards/multiple monitors (over two) are a function of motherboard compatibility, so check with your computer mfg. This card allows the monitors to perform at 120htz, 32 bit color which for me means less eyestrain. Works perfectly as setup through windows xp pro. Nice to have a product work out of the box.
Comes with vga converter included for the second video output from dvi to vga. I prefer the old vga crt monitors over lcd for less eyestrain. My 300 watt power supply doesn't seem to be a problem as cards are rated at 250 watt requirement accorder to visiontek customer service, who answer right away and are very helpful - Not that you need them - No need to disable motherboard video - Perfect. before getting two or more of these cards.
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