Upgrading office workstation to Win 7, is a 7300GT enough for Areo?

[Christopher]

I'm upgrading my office workstation from Windows XP to Windows 7 64 in the next two weeks.

The system is:

Dell desktop system (Can't remember model off the top of my head)
Core2Duo @2.4ghz
4GB RAM
Nvidia GT 7300 PCI-E
Samsung 244T display (1920x1200)

Its currently running Windows XP. Over the next few weeks we will (finally!) be getting some Windows 7 licenses.

Is the video card enough to run Windows Areo effects (e.g. flip3d)? If not, recommendations on an upgrade? I believe the PSU doesn't have any additional PCI-E power, so it would have to fit within the power budget offered by PCI-E 1.0.

 

[pxc]

Aero only uses SM2.0 (DX9) and requires a WDDM driver (7300GT has that available). The minimum local memory required is 128MB IIRC, but it can run on IGPs too.

Yes, it will work fine.

 

[rcf1987]

its more than enough

 

[Sovereign]

Aero only uses SM2.0 (DX9) and requires a WDDM driver (7300GT has that available). The minimum local memory required is 128MB IIRC, but it can run on IGPs too.

Yes, it will work fine.

I ran Aero (Vista and 7) on a 64MB Radeon Mobility X1300 w/64MB of local memory just fine. It even was okay with 1680x1050. The 7300GT will be sufficient.

 

[Christopher]

Thanks everyone! I'm looking forward to finally moving my last system that I use every day off of XP.