New card

[rajtp]

Hey there

I bought a new card with 128mb DDR2 memory and what I have noticed is that my overall computer performance has improved.

If your videocard has a good amount of memory (128 vs 32mb before), does it take some processing load off your main CPU?

Thx!

[FulciLives]

Really only when you are doing something that is very graphics intensive such as computer games or 3D computer effects like making 3D Text for a video or some complex 3D image as a background etc.

Ironically Video processing (like capture and editing) really does not tax the computer much unless you are doing alot of special effects like transitions or 3D text/image overlays etc.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[rajtp]

I play a lot of movies on my computer and watch them on the tv through s-video

Before, after playing the entire movie, the computer would work very slow. Now, the computer works as quick as i just rebooted it.

[ZippyP.]

If your videocard has a good amount of memory (128 vs 32mb before), does it take some processing load off your main CPU?

Like Fulcilives said, depending on what you're doing a better graphics card can reduce the load on your CPU but it's not just the amount of RAM, it's the speed of the graphics processor as well.