looking for windows 8 compatible graphicscards

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Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 have been supporting DirectX API 11.0 and 11.1 practically since they were birthed. Officially as said above it is recommended to use an AMD series 7000 and above or the nVidia series 600 and above. Frankly any graphics card will do though as Windows 8 is backward compatible with DirectX.

I recommend, if you're going for a nice cheaper option, nVidia GTX660. The performance is reasonably good and AMD is moving slowly away from DirectX and toward Mantle. I cannot provide any help for you concerning Mantle and how that works with Windows as I use nVidia.

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theres a big list of the ones that support windows 8 the problem isnt the cards its normally the drivers any card will run windows 8 its if theres drivers the win 7 drivers usually work because of the similar scripts used in windows 8 so no problem just check out the maufacturers to see whoes supporting windows 8 drivers after that your home free these days since windows 8 has been out a while then most if not all maufacturers will be supporting windows 8 as by way of drivers so i shouldnt worry about it buy a card and it will work ive recently upgraded my card to the r7 250 amd radeon of course and this came with drivers for vista xp and 7 and 8 and all the 64 bit drivers too so most cards are supporting most os these days so not a worry just buy what you want and it will work fine on windows 8 i suggest however a high spec card for the extra performance for your games as windows 8 can be a real resource hogger if set up wrong happy computing
 


Many older cards are not ready for windows 8/UEFI ready and require a GPU BIOS update. Even some 6 series cards from nvidia are only windows 7. Make sure you check from the manufacture.

I would just go with win7.
 
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