What is an accelerator card and how does it work along side a graphics card?
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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.
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Depends on what "Type" of Graphics card it is...You see there are different kinds...Is it PCI?, PCIe? AGP? SLI?...\nPci is the slowest, this is old technology...PCIe  is faster, AGP is the fastest...Advanced Graphics Port...this means that only the graphics card uses this ports so it doesn't have to share it with other stuff...\nSLI is for the rich that can afford to run 2 of the same grapics cards side by side for the ultimate power!!!!\nLike 2 Nvidia 7800GTX in SLI...
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YIKES, anything other than onboard video!!! Use the Geforce 2 with the newest NVIDIA drivers and you will far surpass anything the SIS chipset could offer. Then upgrade as soon as possible.
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It's easy...for windows XP, go to start->control panel->Performance and Maintennance->System. Then go to the "Hardware" tab, click "Device Manager". Click view and choose "Devices by connection". Expand all the Icons (click on the small + in the small box beside the icons) till you see PCI bus. Expand more icons till you see your name of your grapics card. Then look back upwards by one stage and you will see something like "Intel(R) 82131XX/XX/XX Processor to AGP Controller". AGP Controller means AGP bus. PCI controller means PCI bus and so on.\n\nSimpler step is to look up the computer's manual for info regarding the graphics.
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Any of these will make you one super happy man :)\n\nI also believe you have an AGP port instead of PCI-Express\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=1069609639&Submit=ENE&Description=geforce+6600gt&Ntk=all\n\nHere is a link of how it performs in 3dmark.\nIt gets a pretty good score. Although a 6200 is also a great card as you  can see the 6600gt is about 3 times as fast as the 6200.\nhttp://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/02/vga_charts_viii/page18.html
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Have a look at this testing site with benchmarked components including graphics cards\nhttp://www.reportlabs.com/testbed/
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How Graphics Cards Work\n\nThe images you see on your monitor are made of tiny dots called pixels. At most common resolution settings, a screen displays over a million pixels, and the computer has to decide what to do with every one in order to create an image. To do this, it needs a translator - something to take binary data from the CPU and turn it into a picture you can see. Unless a computer has graphics capability built into the motherboard, that translation takes place on the graphics card.\n\nA graphics card's job is complex, but its principles and components are easy to understand.\n\nGraphics Card Basics\n\nThink of a computer as a company with its own art department. When people in the company want a piece of artwork, they send a request to the art department. The art department decides how to create the image and then puts it on paper. The end result is that someone's idea becomes an actual, viewable picture.\n\nThe four main components of a graphics card are connections for the motherboard and monitor, a processor, and memory.\n\nA graphics card works along the same principles. The CPU, working in conjunction with software applications, sends information about the image to the graphics card. The graphics card decides how to use the pixels on the screen to create the image. It then sends that information to the monitor through a cable. \n\nCreating an image out of binary data is a demanding process. To make a 3-D image, the graphics card first creates a wire frame out of straight lines. Then, it rasterizes the image (fills in the remaining pixels). It also adds lighting, texture and color. For fast-paced games, the computer has to go through this process about sixty times per second. Without a graphics card to perform the necessary calculations, the workload would be too much for the computer to handle.\n\nThe graphics card accomplishes this task using four main components:\n\n    * A motherboard connection for data and power\n    * A processor to decide what to do with each pixel on the screen\n    * Memory to hold information about each pixel and to temporarily store completed pictures\n    * A monitor connection so you can see the final result \n\nProcessor and Memory\n\nLike a motherboard, a graphics card is a printed circuit board that houses a processor and RAM. It also has an input/output system (BIOS) chip, which stores the card's settings and performs diagnostics on the memory, input and output at startup. A graphics card's processor, called a graphics processing unit (GPU), is similar to a computer's CPU. A GPU, however, is designed specifically for performing the complex mathematical and geometric calculations that are necessary for graphics rendering. Some of the fastest GPUs have more transistors than the average CPU. A GPU produces a lot of heat, so it is usually located under a heat sink or a fan.\n\nA heat sink or fan keeps a graphics card's processor from overheating.\n\nIn addition to its processing power, a GPU uses special programming to help it analyze and use data. ATI and nVidia produce the vast majority of GPUs on the market, and both companies have developed their own enhancements for GPU performance. To improve image quality, the processors use:\n\n    * Full scene anti aliasing (FSAA), which smoothes the edges of 3-D objects\n    * Anisotropic filtering (AF), which makes images look crisper \n\nEach company has also developed specific techniques to help the GPU apply colors, shading, textures and patterns.\n\nAs the GPU creates images, it needs somewhere to hold information and completed pictures. It uses the card's RAM for this purpose, storing data about each pixel, its color and its location on the screen. Part of the RAM can also act as a frame buffer, meaning that it holds completed images until it is time to display them. Typically, video RAM operates at very high speeds and is dual ported, meaning that the system can read from it and write to it at the sa
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you can  upgrade your display memory by getting a graphics card with more ram(random access memory)
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well provided that the video card is not on the moter board unplug your computer,you just take the screw off the top bracket and lift the card out, and you do the rev. to put it in..
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Frankly,  I Don't see the point. \n\nFXF's 7800 AGP is the best card (well, short of Wildcat Realizm 800), but the limitation is your interface. \n\n4x AGP is really slow, sure it's better then PCI regular, but not by a whole lot. You'll be putting a super fast card on a slow interface. Think of it like this, putting the cheapest gasoline and cheapest tires into a Ferrari, and then driving it. \n\nOdds are also that since you're using a D845GBV board, that the rest of your system is pretty obsolete too, including your powersupply. The 7800 is a powerhog. If you have less then a 300 watt with two drives, a decent CPU and the basics, you will incounter problems from startup, to random shutdowns. \n\nIf you're willing to spend the $260+ on the 7800s, the better upgrade for you would be to simply buy a motherboard that has a PCI-E x16, and get a Nvidia 6800 (256 bit version) and upgrade your power supply. You'll see a much better performance overall with a newer motherboard, better power supply and better graphics card rather then just upgrading your graphics card.
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You should be able to access the card properties through control panel.  There you should be given a choice of acceleration methods.  If this does not have hardware acceleration listed as an option, it is probably either a low end 3d or 2d card.  Most 3d cards have an embedded heat sink that you can see when you look at it.  For ease of explaining, please visit my site below, and go to the computer talk section where you can see what a typical 3d card looks like.  If this is an older card, your game probably won't play right anyway.  Most games now require anywhere from 16-64 megabyte video, and a few newer ones as much as 128 megabyte.  For the best prices should you decide to replace the card please visit http://www.geeks.com and http://www.pricewatch.com  Both are good sources. \nYou can also go to Start> Programs> Accessories> System Tools> System Information to see what is listed as the manufacture and other info on your video card.  Hope this helps.
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AGP or Accelerated Graphics Port succeeded PCI or Peripheral Component Interconnect as a technology to connect graphics cards to a computer's motherboard. PCI is still used to connect other devices like ethernet and sound cards.\n\nAGP slots provide a dedicated link between the card and the CPU and thus providing faster communication between them.  There are other enhancements as well.  See the source for more.  But the bottom line is that AGP cards perform much better.\n\nBut now AGP is getting phased in favor of PCIe or PCI Express which is even faster and can be used as the bus for all the devices in a machine.
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not much in it really card for card. radeon bring one out and geforce responds with a similar or better one and vice versa. as for games written for specific card.... well that's a new one on me, after all the game companies would lose millions if that were the case surely??
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Mmm, don't really have enough information to tell you exactly how big of a difference. For example: some of the geforce 7900 cards are 256mb, some are 512mb. Either way, you're likely at least doubling your video memory, and going from agp to pci-ex, correct? It would make a huge difference, but Oblivion is a resource hog. It would be much smoother, but it wouldn't be perfect.
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Do you mean you want two (2) video cards at once, or just replace the radeon you have, to answer my first assumption that is called SLI and current Ati, and nV offer these.\n\nJust go and pick up a new card, you need to remember that you might either be using a PCI-Express or AGP slot card. But Im 99% sure you have an Agp slot card, and take my word for it.\n\nTo the below poster, Video cards have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with any cpu speed / model at all, dont comment if you dont know.
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The FireGL range of graphics cards is a series fabricated by ATI for use with CAD (Computer Aided Design) and DCC (Digital Content Creation) programs, usually found in workstations. Fire GL has workstation specific OpenGL optimizations providing application performance and stability required by professional users.\n\nATI Radeon Xpress 1150 is an integrated video chipset, so it isn't an add-on card.\n\nAs to which is better, it depends on your application. For non-gamers an integrated video chipset would be okay. The FireGL is for workstation graphics technology that enables engineers, animators, and designers to run professional 3D CAD and DCC applications.
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I have the same SLI setup as you.  First and always update to the latest video drivers.  An easier way to verify if it's enabled or not is to bring up the Display Properties, click settings, click advanced, click the tab that says "GeForce 7800 GTX".  Then click "SLI multi-GPU" from the menu on the left, and check "Enable SLI multi-GPU" if it isn't already, and click Apply or OK.  If if wasn't checked and you hit OK or apply, then you might breifly see the top or bottom half of the screen disappear.  That's normal, because one card draws the top, and one draws the bottom.  The SLI Connector is what keeps the cards and display sychronized.  After it's enabled, try playing a graphic heavy game and see the difference in performance.