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I have an old (4 years?) Dell machine with 2.4 GHz Celeron, 1G RAM and
onboard Intel graphics driving a 1920 x 1200 LCD monitor. We do not play
game on this machine. It runs fine mostly, including watching online videos,
DVDs and TVs. However it will have refresh problems in some applications
when running full screen at full resolution.
For example, watching full screen TV (I have a TV card in there) at
1920x1200 is impossible, but lower resolution would be fine. Using Flash
player watching online videos at full screen will have trouble, but some
other players (like WMP) are fine.
But DVD and Windows Media Player work fine full screen at 1920x1200.
When it's having trouble at full screen, the CPU is always running at
100%.
So the question for you experts is: will putting in a PCI video card in
there solve this problem? Would most of the graphics processing be shifted
onto the video card and free up the CPU?
It only has PCI interface and upgrade MB or CPU is out of the question
(don't want to, ).
Thanks for any info.
I have an old (4 years?) Dell machine with 2.4 GHz Celeron, 1G RAM and
onboard Intel graphics driving a 1920 x 1200 LCD monitor. We do not play
game on this machine. It runs fine mostly, including watching online videos,
DVDs and TVs. However it will have refresh problems in some applications
when running full screen at full resolution.
For example, watching full screen TV (I have a TV card in there) at
1920x1200 is impossible, but lower resolution would be fine. Using Flash
player watching online videos at full screen will have trouble, but some
other players (like WMP) are fine.
But DVD and Windows Media Player work fine full screen at 1920x1200.
When it's having trouble at full screen, the CPU is always running at
100%.
So the question for you experts is: will putting in a PCI video card in
there solve this problem? Would most of the graphics processing be shifted
onto the video card and free up the CPU?
It only has PCI interface and upgrade MB or CPU is out of the question
(don't want to, ).
Thanks for any info.