Looking for a budget graphics card to replace my Radeon X190 Pro Windows 7

Hello,

I've just upgraded to windows 7 and it seems that my graphics card is does not have drivers which support windows 7 so its very buggy right now. I was wondering if there are any suggestions for any replacements that I won't have compatibility issues with and is on par or a little better performance wise than my old Radeon X190 pro card. I'm looking for something around 50 dollars hopefully. Thanks

sorry that was x1950 pro card

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How can that card have those issues on windows 7? You are either doing something wrong or epic fail on AMD!!!

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How can that card have those issues on windows 7? You are either doing something wrong or epic fail on AMD!!!

Gambler_3

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Legacy/Pages/radeonaiw_vista64.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.13&lang=English

Note:AMD's DirectX 9 ATI Radeon graphics accelerators are not officially supported under Windows 7. If the user chooses to, they can install the ATI Catalyst Windows Vista graphics driver under Windows 7. Please be aware that none of the new Windows 7 graphics driver (WDDM 1.1) features are supported (as the Windows Vista level graphics driver is limited to WDDM 1.0 level support).

@OP - Are you sure that you don't want to go for a bit more punch? An HD 5670 GDDR5 is a good step up from the previous suggestions, and still very affordable:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102871

"AMD's DirectX 9 ATI Radeon graphics accelerators are not officially supported under Windows 7"

LOL this has to be the biggest load of fail I have read in a while.:|

Nvidia supports geforce 7 for windows 7, way to go AMD!!

"AMD's DirectX 9 ATI Radeon graphics accelerators are not officially supported under Windows 7"

LOL this has to be the biggest load of fail I have read in a while.:|

Nvidia supports geforce 7 for windows 7, way to go AMD!!

Gambler_3

Uh, those cards are like 8 years old.

Dont buy an AMD card again, nvidia supports their customers better!!

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"AMD's DirectX 9 ATI Radeon graphics accelerators are not officially supported under Windows 7"

LOL this has to be the biggest load of fail I have read in a while.:|

Nvidia supports geforce 7 for windows 7, way to go AMD!!

GummiRaccoon

Uh, those cards are like 8 years old.

These cards are still more powerful than integrated chips which are fully supported in windows 7....

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

[QUOTE="Gambler_3"]

"AMD's DirectX 9 ATI Radeon graphics accelerators are not officially supported under Windows 7"

LOL this has to be the biggest load of fail I have read in a while.:|

Nvidia supports geforce 7 for windows 7, way to go AMD!!

Gambler_3

Uh, those cards are like 8 years old.

These cards are still more powerful than integrated chips which are fully supported in windows 7....

no they still support 7 year old cards.. i know for a FACT you can still get windows drivers for the fx 5200 or 6800gt

ive done it with both.. and thsoe are FOSSILS for cards they never get preformance boosts or bug fixes anymore so problems that persisted when they mvoed up still persist.. 7 yr old problems!

besides 5 years for a card is a healthy lfie for a card gambler

[QUOTE="Gambler_3"]

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

Uh, those cards are like 8 years old.

ionusX

These cards are still more powerful than integrated chips which are fully supported in windows 7....

no they still support 7 year old cards.. i know for a FACT you can still get windows drivers for the fx 5200 or 6800gt

ive done it with both.. and thsoe are FOSSILS for cards they never get preformance boosts or bug fixes anymore so problems that persisted when they mvoed up still persist.. 7 yr old problems!

besides 5 years for a card is a healthy lfie for a card gambler

The user base with that old hardware is not likely to upgrade to a new version of windows.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions, and yes it sucks that AMD stopped support for those cards

Thanks everyone for the suggestions, and yes it sucks that AMD stopped support for those cards

djseuung

id get that 5670.. MUCH betetr than the old x1950 series/hd 2900 series its mroe or less on par with the old 8800gt (2nd revision) if not only hairs worse

another option would be this

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6615496

for about $75 and would pwn the 5670 upside tha face!

[QUOTE="Gambler_3"]

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

no they still support 7 year old cards.. i know for a FACT you can still get windows drivers for the fx 5200 or 6800gt

ive done it with both.. and thsoe are FOSSILS for cards they never get preformance boosts or bug fixes anymore so problems that persisted when they mvoed up still persist.. 7 yr old problems!

besides 5 years for a card is a healthy lfie for a card gambler

magicalclick

this si true but you see eventually you need to drop cards gambler do you expect folks to continue support the rage pro or voodoo banshee forever?

well i also think AMD should support their older cards, the x1900 was released when..back in 05/06, so its not THAT old. Also like someone said some basic drivers just to get win 7 running would be enough.

well i also think AMD should support their older cards, the x1900 was released when..back in 05/06, so its not THAT old. Also like someone said some basic drivers just to get win 7 running would be enough.

blaznwiipspman1

I just had a talk with my father, he's trying to put windows 7 on an AMD athlon xp 1800+ system, old abit nf7 (soundstorm) and he was surprised that there weren't any more drivers for any of the devices he had (not even to mention that abit is defunct). I explained that this was like using a 486 in 2000.

The point is, if it is older than 5 years old, replace it, it'll be a pita otherwise.

[QUOTE="blaznwiipspman1"]

well i also think AMD should support their older cards, the x1900 was released when..back in 05/06, so its not THAT old. Also like someone said some basic drivers just to get win 7 running would be enough.

GummiRaccoon

I just had a talk with my father, he's trying to put windows 7 on an AMD athlon xp 1800+ system, old abit nf7 (soundstorm) and he was surprised that there weren't any more drivers for any of the devices he had (not even to mention that abit is defunct). I explained that this was like using a 486 in 2000.

The point is, if it is older than 5 years old, replace it, it'll be a pita otherwise.

The X1000 series was replaced mid 2007, so it have probably been common in retail up to around the new year 2007/2008. Windows 7 was released October 2009. So a few customers will probably have got a brand spanking new X1000 series card around 1½ years before the release of Windows 7. That seems like cutting it awfully close for not producing any drivers.

The X1000 series was replaced mid 2007, so it have probably been common in retail up to around the new year 2007/2008. Windows 7 was released October 2009. So a few customers will probably have got a brand spanking new X1000 series card around 1½ years before the release of Windows 7. That seems like cutting it awfully close for not producing any drivers.

eBusiness

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

[QUOTE="blaznwiipspman1"]

well i also think AMD should support their older cards, the x1900 was released when..back in 05/06, so its not THAT old. Also like someone said some basic drivers just to get win 7 running would be enough.

Gambler_3

I just had a talk with my father, he's trying to put windows 7 on an AMD athlon xp 1800+ system, old abit nf7 (soundstorm) and he was surprised that there weren't any more drivers for any of the devices he had (not even to mention that abit is defunct). I explained that this was like using a 486 in 2000.

The point is, if it is older than 5 years old, replace it, it'll be a pita otherwise.

the x1900 is in fact that outdated. Complaining about a x1900 not getting support now would be like complaining about your radeon 7000 not being supported back in the x1900 days

i like boston creme donuts and coffe!

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[QUOTE="Gambler_3"]Why this damage control? The X1900 is not THAT outdated, is it difficult to understand?:|

Gambler_3

the x1900 is in fact that outdated. Complaining about a x1900 not getting support now would be like complaining about your radeon 7000 not being supported back in the x1900 days

News flash: PC hardware is not getting outdated at the same pace it used to before....

Secondly nvidia supports their cards of the same generation so there is no excuse here, we have a legitimate person suffering due to AMD's **** legacy support. Stop defending this, you are only passing yourself as a fanboy doing that!!!!

9 times out of 10 it's pebkac. I have a radeon 9600pro working with windows 7. I also have a geforce 6600GT working with windows 7.

Beyond that, I was going off of the general power of the card.

Radeon 7000 or the 7500 are DX7, The x1900 is DX9, current gen is DX11, 2 levels of DX between each

The 7500 can process .5 billion pixels a second and has 8GB/s memory bandwidth

the x1900 can process 20 billion pixels a second (40 times more) and has 32GB/s memory bandwidth (4 times more)

a 6950 can process 280 billion pixels a second (14 times more) and has 160GB/s memory bandwidth (5 times more)

Point is, when an old piece of hardware is giving you a hard time, upgrade.

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[QUOTE="Gambler_3"]It can play crysis in medium settings so ya it's totally outdated....:roll:

News flash: PC hardware is not getting outdated at the same pace it used to before....

Secondly nvidia supports their cards of the same generation so there is no excuse here, we have a legitimate person suffering due to AMD's **** legacy support. Stop defending this, you are only passing yourself as a fanboy doing that!!!!

Gambler_3

9 times out of 10 it's pebkac. I have a radeon 9600pro working with windows 7. I also have a geforce 6600GT working with windows 7.

Beyond that, I was going off of the general power of the card.

Radeon 7000 or the 7500 are DX7, The x1900 is DX9, current gen is DX11, 2 levels of DX between each

The 7500 can process .5 billion pixels a second and has 8GB/s memory bandwidth

the x1900 can process 20 billion pixels a second (40 times more) and has 32GB/s memory bandwidth (4 times more)

a 6950 can process 280 billion pixels a second (14 times more) and has 160GB/s memory bandwidth (5 times more)

Point is, when an old piece of hardware is giving you a hard time, upgrade.

You just proved yourself as AMD fanboy, congrats!

You don't even know what that term means, so stop using it. I used Ati cards because that is what the TC has.