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| TopJimmyCooks:
ACK - disregard- it's an AGP card. I just built a new main computer for the house. previously it was mainly a server for video sharing, printers plugged into it and shared, etc. the new one is nicer and I will be using it more as my main desktop pc. work, cad, sketchup, photo processing, maybe a few older pc games. it is an intel I3 2100, Asrock mobo, 8 gb ram, ssd, and I'm using the onboard intel video currently. I have an ATI radeon hd 3850 512mb video card that has to be 7-8 years old laying around. Is this card better than the intel onboard video? Any pitfalls to using this older card on a new mobo? |
| brained:
Why don't you check benchmarks at Toms Hardware? http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/graphics-cards,1.html I think the current video card is faster. IMHO Download Sandra is a benchmark tool and do both tests, with video card and WO. Ohhh... AGP :S well |
| Dekieon:
I would use the old video card. On board video cards, use system ram for video ram, and the access to that ram is much much slower then a dedicated video card can access it's own ram. |
| ark_ader:
Yeah stick the ATI in there, besides it is better in a case than out. The Internal is an Intel HD 3/4000? If so you would probably get the same performance but the option of having a second monitor, especially if you want to play Punchout!. |
| Gray_Area:
There are online resources that talk about such things. You're going to get the most and accurate information there. |
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