Posts Tagged ‘video card’

What are the signs of the memory or video card going bad?

And what is the best way to troubleshoot it?

I’m going to buy a new video card, but I just need it for streaming videos and for playing Onlive games.

Would a video card with 128mb of memory be enough, or should I buy one with at least 256mb of memory?

I’ve always referred to it as the computer, system, or system unit. I thought that my college education fiancee was just wrong; she learned to call it that from her college computer course, however I recently heard a couple of coworkers calling it a CPU. In my opinion this is akin to calling a car an engine or calling a human a brain. A system unit isn’t a CPU anymore than it is a motherboard or a video card. So, why are people being trained to call it a CPU?

Iv got the jumbo hdx dragon laptop and Im thinking if possible to upgrade the cpu, video card, and hard drive when the warranty runs out. But only of course if it is possible…

When I turn it on, all the system and CPU fans start spinning, and the power / hard drive lights come on, but the screen is blank. I did not hear *beeps* from the motherboard, my video card still working fine and the monitor is still okay.

Just looking to upgrade my pc a bit. I already have after market power supply (450w), video card and RAM. Something economical that would be better than my factory cpu without breaking the bank.

Specifically regarding day to day activities like casually surfing the internet? Is the higher performance of the video card "kick in" when needed or because of the memory, is the higher performance constant?

I have a <1yr old dell with 2 GB of memory. It has been a major pain in the rear– crashing, video card problems, etc. since the very beginning. It also runs sluggishly for simple things like opening programs. My question is this: the computer is using about 54 percent of its physical memory when nothing is running (other than Vista and Symantec). Is this a reasonable number?