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Title: Should I put an older video card in my new PC?
Post by: TopJimmyCooks on March 04, 2013, 12:12:14 pm: 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?
Title: Re: Should I put an older video card in my new PC?
Post by: brained on March 04, 2013, 12:57:13 pm: Why don't you check benchmarks at Toms Hardware?

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/graphics-cards,1.html (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
Title: Re: Should I put an older video card in my new PC?
Post by: Dekieon on March 04, 2013, 04:33:43 pm: 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.
Title: Re: Should I put an older video card in my new PC?
Post by: ark_ader on March 04, 2013, 05:10:42 pm: 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!.
Title: Re: Should I put an older video card in my new PC?
Post by: Gray_Area on March 07, 2013, 08:20:40 pm: There are online resources that talk about such things. You're going to get the most and accurate information there.
Title: Re: Should I put an older video card in my new PC?
Post by: TopJimmyCooks on March 08, 2013, 08:39:39 am: They don't do much when you're talking 5 y/o gpu v/s new onboard. Besides, turned out to be a moot point because it's an AGP card.