Time for a graphics card soon I think, am I right in thinking that on-board graphics use some of my CPU processing power to display everything
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As far as I know yes, and they also use system memory for the display so you have less available for applications. We have a few machines at work with on-board graphics and they seem pretty dire.UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Time for a graphics card soon I think, am I right in thinking that on-board graphics use some of my CPU processing power to display everything
It really depends on what your machine is doing. My fastest machine has an on-board graphics processor but it runs only BOINC/SETI in Linux text-mode and so there is no graphics output. There is absolutely no reason for me to install an add-on graphics card in that machine at the moment.UBT_Grumpy Old Bloke wrote:As far as I know yes, and they also use system memory for the display so you have less available for applications. We have a few machines at work with on-board graphics and they seem pretty dire.UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Time for a graphics card soon I think, am I right in thinking that on-board graphics use some of my CPU processing power to display everything