Question on grafic card and CPU, thanks!

Dear Experter,

I have maybe some very simple questions.
1.
Will Grafic card with shared memory use computer RAM during the operation?
2.
How good is A Grafic card : 64MB Grafic onboard Shared for a normal use?
(Is that mean 64MB will be subtracted from my RAM capacity)
3.
How fast is AMD Sempron 2200+ when comparing with Intel CPU, any example?


Thanks in advance for your answer!

NihaoJS

 

To the best of my knowledge (Experter, not me , but to start the ball rolling )

Briefly,

Yes, system RAM will be allocated to the graphics.

Onboard graphics is slower than an "add-in" card with it's own memory.

Again briefly, 2200+ is AMD's way of comparing it's CPUs to Intel Pentiums. It says that that CPU is the equivalent or faster (the "+ ") than a Pentium 2200Mhz processor. The L2 cache of a processor is also important. Christer was telling me about the Sempron here:
http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=38161

Someone may like to add to (correct ) this.
Matt

 

Thank you very much for your reply. It helps.

NihaoJS

 

As I understand on board graphics (well Intel onboard graphics anyway) a Maximum of 64MB CAN be allocated to the onboard graphics processor for demanding applications, but usually only 8MB is "locked away" so therefore never available for general system memory requirements. 64 MB would rarely be used, and is "given back" (dynamically assigned) as soon as the requirement goes. So a suggestion for minimum system memory would be 256MB with a better option of 512MB. We, (my work) run a few thousand (Australia wide) Ipex Compaq and HP PC's that mostly use the Intel 82845G/x onboard graphics chip that is fine for all our 2D stuff and is even OK for a bit of 3D work. Most (probably 90%?) are shipped with 256MB of system RAM with so called multimedia PC's having 512MB. We STILL run W2K but XP would be OK with these specs.

 

Hi: Just what are you looking for from your graphics card? For high end games or other intense 3D applications 64mb of ram is at the low end these days regardles of it being on board or not.
Post back with what you are hoping to get from your system and further suggestions may come.

 

Thanks for helping me to understand something.
I will not play big games. But I may watch movies or TV (with TV card) and work with office such as word, Powerpoint as well as edit some picture with software such as Adob phtoshop. Thanks.

NihaoJS

 

Onboard graphics should be fine for your requirements then. Suggest you check periodically for driver updates from your motherboard's website.