I have an old coputer (Pentium 4 at 1.8) in which I have maxed the RAM at 1GB-
I have on-board video-
I was looking into getting a PCI video card with maybe 256 or 128 mb of memory-
mY question
Would It make a difference in term of speeing up web browsing, video playback and streaming.
I don't play any games on this computer-
Another words is a worth the 30-50
Thanks for your help
Jump to PostNiot really, no.
Niot really, no.
It won't really speed up the internet browsing, It may help the frame rate when you are streaming videos and make them run a little smoother though. It would be worth $50
no regarding the pci video device- save your money , your system will have onboard AGP video device that is manually configurable via BIOS setup ,
(DEL or F2 or F10 at system power up - consult the first display - can click pause button to freeze display)
Typically for system era, from 8MB default up to 256MB
Under video memory and/or aperture setting in advanced
WinXP sp3 uses about 400MB ram memory for internet and internet related tasks - so minus windows preferred 30% freespace using 1GB installed ram memory leaves up to 128MB you can comfortably configure for , if supported.
Changing say 8MB to 128MB will be noticeable when changing pages - but a connection with burst dl speed over 100KB/s will help.
Also update java runtime and adobe flash player for best quality internet experience.
Your probable onboard ATA100 ide host bus adapter connected to a likely slow oem ide hdd will be the big bottleneck for internet related performance (burst speed for page changing and sustained speed for security scans)
so maybe investigate a faster hard disk drive sub-system
Aslo check the system vendor or mainboard vendor or chipset vendor for chipset/video related uogardes and/or config utilities
regards from tbright
HP evo D510 1.8GHz/512MB/8MB.64MB onboard video/10K scsi drive
oem winXP sp3, explorer8
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