Video cards ?

[NitnayLion]

I am now useing a 64 meg card . I was woundering if the newer 128meg cards would give me that much better preformance for the money or should I just wait it out untill they come out with 256 or 512meg.
Thanks for any and all replies.

Just a thought is it posable to have too many megs on your video card?
IE Why would you want 2gigs of ram if you only have a 1 gig cpu ?

[D_Knife]

newer 128meg cards would give me that much better preformance

performance for what???

3d games - probably, well maybe if the video driver uses the extra memory correctly or if the chipset can make use of triplebuffering like the newer chipsets can. Even then don't get to excited, tomshardware.com reviewed several different video cards with a variety of memory sizes and only found a small difference in speed, like 3-4fps - definitely not worth upgrading just for that.

video capture - not a lick of difference. for pure video capture 4mb of memory is enough, 8mb if your desktop setting is larger than 1024x768 16bit colour - this is needed for the video overlay. If your not doing video overlay then even a 1mb video card will work fine. There are other factors that might change this of course like functions supported on the video controller - but your question was about memory.

posable to have too many megs on your video card?

well see the 3d games answer - it is a case of diminishing returns, and unless the card (video chipset), video driver and application (game) all understand and can make use of the memory - it will just sit and go to waste

Why would you want 2gigs of ram if you only have a 1 gig cpu ?

I think you getting you shorthand confused here.
2 gigs of ram is 2 gigabytes of RAM
1 gig cpu is 1gigahertz CPU

gigabytes is a storage space measurement
gigahertz is a frequency of operation measurment

There are video cards around now that have around 512MB of video ram, but they are dedicated CAD rendering cards and aren't at all designed to play games with.