I just finished building a gaming PC which has everything except an accelorator card. Is it worth buying? The asus one is about £150.
2006-11-03 19:01:14 · 3 answers · asked by bruvvamoff 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
It doesn't. They are one in the SAME. A graphics card isn't just a frame buffer(a data buffer that you write to that represent the current display). The Asus card uses an NVIDIA chip. This is also called a GPU(graphics processing unit). It's like a cpu except its designed for graphics processing. Without it the CPU would have to go through a lot of effort to render just a single frame. Eventually that rendered image makes it to the display. This is really efficient because it's gets rendered and displayed on the same card. It's done through a really quick internal bus on the GPU chip.
2006-11-03 19:10:12 · answer #1 · answered by To Be Free 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With games, the memory and speed are both very vital. Although it seems expensive, I would install it as games do take a chunk of time and memory. Could it be worth shopping around for a cheaper one?
2006-11-03 19:04:31 · answer #2 · answered by Scatty 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
accelerator card =graphics card
2006-11-03 19:05:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋