Video Card in Older PC

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  • miles6699
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    • Nov 2002
    • 65
    #1

    Video Card in Older PC

    OK now I know most of you have some kickass PC with 512MB of Ram running at 2GHz but there must be a few of us with the lower end models....Im running a PII 400....Ive got it so it will playback most Divx films encoded with 200KB/s or less bitrates, with some tweaking...just wondering if a video card upgrade would help...Ive got a RagePro3D with 8MB ram...thinking of going to 32MB....Radeon All in Wonder....think it would help...???
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    • gd_nimrod
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      • Nov 2002
      • 1128
      #2
      I don't think it will help much, maybe even not at all. Any upgrades for a PII 400 will not make it run any smoother, maybe it will let you open up some possibilities in gaming, but for video its (mostly) the processor that works hard. I would save my money for a new motherboard and CPU.
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        • Enchanter
          Old member
          • Feb 2002
          • 5417
          #3
          The RagePro3D card is a very old card and does have video bandwith problems when it comes to DivX playback. Replacing it with a faster card will remove the video bandwith bottleneck.

          However, your 400MHz CPU will become the next performance bottleneck once the graphic card has been upgraded. I think you should consider upgrading your CPU as well, seeing that budget CPUs can be had for ridiculously low price nowadays.

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