Posted on 12/05/2005 3:04:55 PM PST by jeremiah
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Nah. Get a separate video card. If the video card goes bad, replacing it is a cinch. My onboard video card died and I had to by-pass it with an after-market replacement. And its better for the computer's CPU to have the graphics processing handled by a dedicated chip.
For the love of God, don't go with onboard video. It's slow, steals resources, and cripples performance. For basic browsing and email, even the ancient Genoa Phantom I used in my previous personal machine was an improvement over onboard. A cheap AGP Geforce that's a generation or 2 old but still very servicable for anything but high end games should only set you back around $50 or so.
Try newegg.com for everything...hubby got a very nice video card there recently at a good price, and I've used them in the past to buy cpu upgrades. They ship fast and are very reasonably priced.
I just got an AMD dual processor from Tiger. Built to what I need. Faaaaaaaaaast for lots of software.
Only problem...can someone tell me the easiet way to transfer all my stuff from the old puter and the new one?
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