Will a DX10 card improve my Vista experience?

[Brutton]

I just installed Vista and it seems to run ok. Some of my Window animations do seem to drag though and from what I hear, the new interface is direct x 10 driven. Is this true? And if so, would upgrading from my 7600GT to maybe an 8800GTS improve my Windows performance? Rest of my system is an X2 4400+, 1GB of ram and a Asus A8N32-SLI.

[ElementXsoftwarE]

The Aero GUI should only be DirectX 9, and it only requires Pixel Shader 2.0 (I believe), which is a DX 9 thing. I wouldn't get a new gpu just so windows looks better though, it should look and run fine with your current card.

[pF.TK]

you might want to add another gig of ram, other then that, your setup is fine...

[Brutton]

Right now I have two sticks of Samsung DDR400 512MB. If I were to get 2 1GB sticks, would my system run faster with 3GB?

[pF.TK]

I would say that pairing the 1GB would probably be the faster solution, but you could test 2x1gb and 2x1gb+2x512mb and report back :)