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Colday213
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August 20, 2012
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To Graphics card or not to Graphics card

  • August 20, 2012
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Hi all,

Looking for opinion/experience here on hardware, specifically Graphics cards.

I understand Captivate (and Photoshop for that matter) are mainly processor intensive applications.

If this is the case, would a GPU built onto the motherboard suffice rather than the added expenditure of a Graphics card (Quaddro or similar) be worth it?

At work we use Dell machines and the new desktop spec has in Intel Core i5 2400 processor and comes with 8Gb of RAM (although we only use Win XP Pro so a 32bit architechture, go figure).

Would this built in Graphics work well?

Does any part of Captivate use the Graphics card particularly intensely?

Many thanks

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    August 20, 2012

    Hi Col,

    Had already several questions, about crawling CP. Mostly it was linked with big files on systems with too little dedicated memory for graphics and/or to little RAM-memory.  The minimum requirements specified for Captivate will perhaps work if you have only that application open and with small files. Of course, since you'll remain with 32-bit only 2GB can be used by programs, so that leaves memory for graphics if you have 8GB. Personally I always have preferred a dedicated graphics card, my laptop has 1GB card (NVidia) and my new desktop a 2GB card. But I'm also using a lot of Adobe applications (not only Photoshop but also Premiere Pro, After Effects). I know that when I added 8GB RAM to my laptop (it had a NVidia card) to the available 4GB, Captivate got a boost.... My desktop has 32GB of memory but I'm a real multitasker. I was told that the buitl in Graphics now work much better than a while ago, and honestly never tried with a system without a graphics card.

    Lieve

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