This will sound like a silly question to a lot of hardware experts, but a friend just changed out his video card, from a 64mb to a 7000 series, 7300 I think it is, and you actually cant tell a difference on the monitor, ... I've obviously missed the point somewhere along the way.... somebody that knows help here... and thanks...
2007-04-23 08:06:39 · 2 answers · asked by Knowledge 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I guess I always had the impression, that a better video card would show better video... I still dont see whats the big advantage, no one has spelled it out in details to me yet, just things like more memory more cache, faster... How does that help a pics quality, now if someone said I would get more pixils, that would be a plus, but isn't that up to the monitors limits anyway ?
Stated another way, what is the visual advantage if any... or is it all the unseen that will be advantageous ?
2007-04-23 08:28:01 · update #1
Video cards also go by the name graphics cards, and graphics cards is a far better name. The purpose of a graphics card is to produce graphics, such as in PC games. This is where you will see the big benefit of a better graphics card. A photo or video's quality is determined almost entirely by the quality of the photo or video, the graphcis card can do very little to improve it.
2007-04-23 09:07:47 · answer #1 · answered by mysticman44 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure what you missed....?
Im not so sure a more powerful card would make your normal desktop look at different. Perhaps his old card was running in 16-bit color and thats why it looks different now, in 32-bit. A 7300 isnt that high powered of a card nowadays but it soars over an 64mb card thats out there.
2007-04-23 15:12:54 · answer #2 · answered by v0lten 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋