Amber L <FishFan2theMax.DeleteThis@webtv.net> wrote:
>I am curious about something though. Most computers I have checked out
>at Best Buy and Circuit City have integrated graphics. Is this the norm
>now for low to medium end computers ?
It's the norm for low end. It's fairly common for business-oriented medium
end. For gaming machines, mid through high end will all have discrete
graphics cards (or in a very few cases, and in laptops, an onboard chip, but
it'll have the same designator as a card, and be NVidia or ATI branded with a
model number that you can look up and compare to other cards.
>Is it typical now to have to disable these "cards" and replace them with
>dedicated cards in order to play online games ?
Yes, or to buy a machine with a higher-end card in it already.
>I am very curious about this because I bought a computer about 7 years
>ago and had none of the issues I am having now with trying to find a
>decently priced computer to play online games on
Depends on definition of "decently priced". Dell insprion 530 is $509 for a
core 2 duo, 1GB RAM, NVidia 8300GS, no monitor or keyboard (assuming you
already have those). This should be a fairly usable low-end gaming machine.
You can double the price and go to 2gb ram, a bit faster processor, and an
NVidia 8600GT, which makes it a pretty decent midrange box.
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