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| Thread ID: 77553 | 2007-03-13 18:31:00 | Comparing Video Cards | Strommer (42) | Press F1 |
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| 532714 | 2007-03-14 18:34:00 | Here is a basic question: Other than for gaming, how important is a graphic card? For general web browsing, emailing and word processing, my guess is that on board mb graphics would be fine. But with photo editing (Photoshop or similar) and video encoding, would a budget graphic card be any different compared to high end cards or are RAM and type of mobo more important? | Strommer (42) | ||
| 532715 | 2007-03-14 19:15:00 | Depends on what you use the comp for. Ten years ago I was quite happy with a card with 2mb's. Even the games of the time viewed quite well. Today even 2 512 mb cards aren't enough for some games. |
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| 532716 | 2007-03-15 01:00:00 | . But with photo editing (Photoshop or similar) and video encoding, would a budget graphic card be any different compared to high end cards or are RAM and type of mobo more important? I would say this would apply to physical ram not ram thats on a videocard. With Video encoding, you wouldnt only need ram, the speed of the system would also be taken into account. (speed would be more important than the ram). I dont think either of the above would care how much ram u have on a vidcard, but depending on how much ram is installed, photoshop would complain, if it was low, depending on what you're doing. |
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