Vista - lower vista experience score?

I just swapped graphics cards from an ATI x600 128MB DDR w/ hypermemory to
256 MB to a Nvidia 7100GS 256MB DDR2. The Nvidia card is better in every
aspect except the core clock speed. I believe the ATI is a 400 MHz core (it
might be as much as 500 MHz), and the Nvidia has a 350MHz core. I
reevaluated my Vista experience score after the swap, and it dropped from a
3.7 to 3.0! Would the difference in core speeds make that much of a
difference? I've heard stories of the score doing some weird things with
scores pertaining to graphics cards, but am now experiencing it firsthand.
Should I keep my Nvidia card, or keep the ATI? I don't play too many really
graphics intensive games, Civ IV is probably the biggest resource hog, but I
am putting a TV tuner in later this week so which card would be better for
that application? Thanks for your help,

Todd

You should be fine as long as you are not putting in a HDTV tuner card.
The memory bus width and the effective memory speed are also very important.
As long as you have 128mb of graphics memory you can handle a HDTV tuner
card.
"Todd Marks" <ToddMarks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8F4C3B05-2F2C-4174-8F13-7BE019BBDAA0@microsoft.com...
>I just swapped graphics cards from an ATI x600 128MB DDR w/ hypermemory to
> 256 MB to a Nvidia 7100GS 256MB DDR2. The Nvidia card is better in every
> aspect except the core clock speed. I believe the ATI is a 400 MHz core
> (it
> might be as much as 500 MHz), and the Nvidia has a 350MHz core. I
> reevaluated my Vista experience score after the swap, and it dropped from
> a
> 3.7 to 3.0! Would the difference in core speeds make that much of a
> difference? I've heard stories of the score doing some weird things with
> scores pertaining to graphics cards, but am now experiencing it firsthand.
> Should I keep my Nvidia card, or keep the ATI? I don't play too many
> really
> graphics intensive games, Civ IV is probably the biggest resource hog, but
> I
> am putting a TV tuner in later this week so which card would be better for
> that application? Thanks for your help,
>
> Todd

I would certainly expect the AIT card to be the better pewformer with video
due to its higher memory bandwith.
"Todd Marks" <ToddMarks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8F4C3B05-2F2C-4174-8F13-7BE019BBDAA0@microsoft.com...
>I just swapped graphics cards from an ATI x600 128MB DDR w/ hypermemory to
> 256 MB to a Nvidia 7100GS 256MB DDR2. The Nvidia card is better in every
> aspect except the core clock speed. I believe the ATI is a 400 MHz core
> (it
> might be as much as 500 MHz), and the Nvidia has a 350MHz core. I
> reevaluated my Vista experience score after the swap, and it dropped from
> a
> 3.7 to 3.0! Would the difference in core speeds make that much of a
> difference? I've heard stories of the score doing some weird things with
> scores pertaining to graphics cards, but am now experiencing it firsthand.
> Should I keep my Nvidia card, or keep the ATI? I don't play too many
> really
> graphics intensive games, Civ IV is probably the biggest resource hog, but
> I
> am putting a TV tuner in later this week so which card would be better for
> that application? Thanks for your help,
>
> Todd

Todd;
Be concerned less about the numbers and more about actual performance.
Which one runs your programs better?

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"Todd Marks" <ToddMarks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8F4C3B05-2F2C-4174-8F13-7BE019BBDAA0@microsoft.com...
>I just swapped graphics cards from an ATI x600 128MB DDR w/
>hypermemory to
> 256 MB to a Nvidia 7100GS 256MB DDR2. The Nvidia card is better in
> every
> aspect except the core clock speed. I believe the ATI is a 400 MHz
> core (it
> might be as much as 500 MHz), and the Nvidia has a 350MHz core. I
> reevaluated my Vista experience score after the swap, and it dropped
> from a
> 3.7 to 3.0! Would the difference in core speeds make that much of a
> difference? I've heard stories of the score doing some weird things
> with
> scores pertaining to graphics cards, but am now experiencing it
> firsthand.
> Should I keep my Nvidia card, or keep the ATI? I don't play too
> many really
> graphics intensive games, Civ IV is probably the biggest resource
> hog, but I
> am putting a TV tuner in later this week so which card would be
> better for
> that application? Thanks for your help,
>
> Todd