Malte Steiner wrote:

chris clepper schrieb:

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The performance gains with GEM by adding the AGP card will be substantial. Anything currently offered by Nvidia or ATI will improve over the Intel built-in.

On 11/24/05, Ken renueden@earthlink.net wrote:

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i have a shuttle box with built in graphics with 128 mb shared memory. will i get better performance i buy a dedicated card, my slot is agp 8x? primarily interested in gem, pdp, pidip...gridflow? than

Ken didn't said which chip is built in, there are Shuttles with Nvidia graphics onboard so the gain might be not so much.

Cheers,

Malte

ya its an nvidia graphics controller: The Crush18G IGP Host Controller integrates a high performance and high quality 3D/2D Graphical Accelerator. Ø Integrated Geforce4 MX GPU Ø Built-in a high performance and high quality 256-bit 3D/2D graphic accelerator. Ø nView dual-display architecture supporting desktop VGA monitor; DVI display or TV set. Ø Dual CRTC/simultaneous Dual Display. Ø Integrated dual 300 MHz palette-DACs for analog VGA monitors up to 1920x1440.

i don't understand if doing graphics is hitting the cpu or not, ot if having an agp card will alleviate that. i am also synthesising sound too. thanks all.

I forgot to answer this:

i don't understand if doing graphics is hitting the cpu or not, ot if having an agp card will alleviate that. i am also synthesising sound too. thanks all.

Graphiccards these days are heavy optimized for 3D but they are just helpers for your cpu(s) so generating graphics will hit the cpu in any case. While most of the workload of 3D stuff is done in a graphiccard like Ati or Nvidia (when the drivers work well), 2D like videoprocessing is mostly done in the cpu. In general its a matter of experiences and what are and how do you want to archieve your (artistic) goals but I guess you got a pretty rig there so start to make your own experiences which money can't buy.

Cheers,

Malte