little help with a upgrade question

[vizual_assasin]

i have a shitty computer right now

duron running at 1296 Mhz
with 256 ram

i have some old 64mb video cards laying arounf and have onboard graphics on the computer

what would be better for video encoding

another 256 or 512 mb of ram or a geforce fx 5500 overclocked 256 mb

 

[tweebel]

One time reply only:

System RAM.

Better: Overclock duron/new system/hardware encoding card.

Quite useless: Overclocked geforce fx 5500.

 

[endyen]

Encoding doesn't use the graphics card, but it does use system memory. So does integrated graphics. Us one of the agp cards you have, and get the extra ram.

 

[Orion_THG_pl]

Or a WD Raptor .

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