what s good value graphics card trying glass

What's a good value graphics card for trying GLASS? I don't do gaming so I don't need anything fancy. Just something very standard that will give glass with no trouble. What's the most standard card? -- Chris

I'm using a Sapphire ATI Radeon Atlantis 9600 and it has been an excellent card for me. It has everything I wanted plus a passive heatsink for quietness. It only cost about 56 USD a few months ago from Newegg. Works great with Vista.
My performance rating in Vista is 3.4 for that card. It is AGP and has 256mb ram.
I've never played any computer games and probably never will, I just use it for photography and web surfing. But for gaming the performance rating is 3.4 also.
I am using Microsoft drivers and an LCD with DVI interface.

Chris schrieb:

What's a good value graphics card for trying GLASS? I don't do gaming so I don't need anything fancy. Just something very standard that will give glass with no trouble. What's the most standard card?

I would suggest a GeForce 6200 128 MB (real VRAM, not 'Turbo Cache' = shared RAM!), e.g. by Asus (without fan).
The basic card of yesterday with Aero capability is a GeForce FX5200 128 MB which is now a little cheaper than the 6200 - you are on the safe side with the latter.
Roy

Roy Coorne wrote:

Chris schrieb: What's a good value graphics card for trying GLASS? I don't do gaming so I don't need anything fancy. Just something very standard that will give glass with no trouble. What's the most standard card?
I would suggest a GeForce 6200 128 MB (real VRAM, not 'Turbo Cache' = shared RAM!), e.g. by Asus (without fan). ...

The performance sub-ratings for the GF6200 128MB are 2.8 and 2.5 for gaming.
Roy

Make sure that the card is WDDM or LDDM compliant to run aero.(LDDM is the same as WDDM-L is Longhorn now called W-windows)
"Roy Coorne" wrote:

Roy Coorne wrote: Chris schrieb: What's a good value graphics card for trying GLASS? I don't do gaming so I don't need anything fancy. Just something very standard that will give glass with no trouble. What's the most standard card?
I would suggest a GeForce 6200 128 MB (real VRAM, not 'Turbo Cache' = shared RAM!), e.g. by Asus (without fan). ...
The performance sub-ratings for the GF6200 128MB are 2.8 and 2.5 for gaming.
Roy