second video card and use for video decoding, and use current video card (8800gtx) for gaming. Should this approach work? will there be any problems? What video card should I go with, think ultra cheap, the only thing it will be used for is watching video....

Upgrading Graphics Card = Upgrading Power Supply?. I'm about to upgrade card, right now i have a RADEON X600 PRO that came with the computer, it has no fans, just a simple heatsink. I'm planning on upgrading to an X1900GT, and since this one has a reasonably...

5200 Light 128mb video card>>>> that is just bad ;o0 >> ok, after looking at some reviews of the standard 5200 I can say the problem is your video card. The standard 5200 is useless for gaming, less than half the speed of a gf4 ti4200 in...

know about video cards, but I could not even fathom the difference this card makes on my pc--it makes the upgrade from my SiS 305 PCI video card to the GeForce4 Ti4200 look like a small step and not a big one. Truley unbelievable. More to come...not that...

of the problems with these cards seem to be caused by overheating of the VRMs (Voltage Regulator Modules). See these links: and Although most of the references talk about the Sapphire cards the problem occurs with other cards as well. Have you connected...

haven't been able to find it. I would really like to know if anyone else has had similar problems with other video cards and drivers. Especially directx10 cards. does anyone else have these problems with xp? Just really curious. . So I am trying to...

Might be a misunderstanding.. LOL! It's not the cpu who runs your games, its the video card. Get a video card upgrade and see the big difference. GTAIV had performance issues and RE5 is pretty demanding. Get a new video card and it will help out alot. I...

is ok to handle wow but the problem was my video card. That the GeForce 8600 GTS only has 32 stream processors. That I should look to upgrade the video card to something with more stream processors. I was then told by someone that wow is a hog on the cpu...

video card. Can anyone help me deal with this problem? The video card (and computer itself) is only about 4 months old. Faulty video card? upgrade to the lates video card drivers and see if the problem persist. i think is the video card You are experiencing...

online revealed that this means the problem is with the video card. I used an ancient GeForce 2MX temporarily and everything worked fine, so it seems that I need to replace my video card. My computer is pretty rusty (and it's AGP) so I'm not looking for...