Forum Archive Index - September 2000

[Brian Gale <brigale@i4free.co.nz>]

Hi David

When you upgraded you would have had a much better video card included
and this is why you would notice  a big improvement in graphics etc.
The complexity of  current video displays require extra memory on
the video cards - used to be 1-2 Mb now at least 8Mb.  Games of
course need the best video and on older machines accelerator cards were
used - now good video comes on the motherboard.  Without this the
extra processor speed would have little effect. This is the item to check
on older machines as an upgraded card will make a big difference to video
without changing anything else.

There have been numerous improvements to motherboards in the latest
machines including incorporating the items which previously had been
extra cards fitted into slots and all this makes for better
performance.

The original question I posed related to processor speed which on its own
will not make a tremendous difference to the operation of most standard
programmes like word processing, spreadsheets and business packages. It's
a bit like having a 200 kph car in a 100 kph speed limit.

Regards
Brian

At 07:32 25-09-00 +1200, you wrote:
> Changed from
> P150/32Mb to celeron 466/128Mb in January. I witnessed a huge improvement
> in graphing from my shares software. I have tried the old P150 again just
> for comparison and would not like to go back.
> David Reid