Can a Dedicated Graphics card speed up OCR?. I was trying to batch OCR some documents and was wondering if Graphics cards in 2D mode would actually speed up a batch OCR process. Has anyone tried this or have some sort of knowledge outside of gaming which could...

2) Yes** (try to get the GDDR3 model) 3) Definitely** **Almost any dedicated graphics card will be much better than onboard graphics. But you may not notice it unless you use it. It should help make the desktop snappier, but your processor also matters....

Video card with no video RAM. I have a Lenovo notebook with some decent hardware and Windows 7 32bit. The worst part of my hardware is my graphics card, which has no video RAM at all. It allocates system RAM as it needs it. Here is a portion of its diagnostic:...

Will upgrading to a dedicated card help a non-gamer?. I have an Inspiron 530 slim tower running vista with 2GB RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 processor (2.53 GHz), and was thinking of upgrading the graphics card from integrated to dedicated. Im not really...

etc even use the video card at all? why doesn't integrated cut it... im confused as to why an dedicated graphics card is necessary (unless you need DVI) Actually, Weilin has a very good point there... I was talking about 'image quality' all along since thats...

combining multiple NVIDIA® graphics solutions in a single system. What is CrossFire ? CrossFire is a high-performance PC Gaming Platform technology that enables multiple ATI Radeon graphics cards and a CrossFire-ready motherboard in a single computer to...

and Viability for a dedicated PPU in todays PC market, even for £218 at launch. For one thing, the card is so expensive because Ageis is currently only making money from the actual card sales, not from liscencing their SDK to developers. As market penetration...

There are two solutions to your problem: 1. Go into BIOS and adjust down the amount shared memory for the graphic card. I suspect your machine is set to 64 MB. Reduce it down to 8 MB. With this kind of machine the card barely handles 5-10 years games...

to run recent apps fast. EDIT: That is if you already have dedicated graphics, if you're running on onboard graphics, then you should get a modest graphics card. AOL aaaargh! Try closing some of the non essential programs. Maybe go with a lighter version music...