Differences in pipelines in video cards?
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Similar to the way a CPU has a pipeline filled with small stages that each do a single task quickly, so too does the GPU in your video card. \nWhat this does is take a large task, and break it down into smaller stages.  This allows you to do multiple things at once and make your overall clock speed equivalent to the slowest of those stages. \n\nPipelined GPU:\n    * Wash\n    * Wash->Dry\n    * Wash->Dry->Fold\n    * Dry->Fold\n    * Fold\n\nThe more pipelines a video card contains, the faster and better the image will be processed and rendered. Thats why SLI is so efficient.
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Video Ram? \n\nYes if it is intergrated then you can enter the bios and adjust the total amount of texture memory that the GPU uses. If it is not intergrated (with the exception of Nvidia's line Of Turbo Cache models) then no the memory is built into the gpu.\n\nhere are some examples \n\nIntergrated: Intel Xtreme Graphics,Nvidia 440 \nNon Inter: Geforce 6200,6600,6800,7800
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Go to Control Panel > Display > Settings Tab > Advanced button.  That will at least tell you what video card you have.  If it is using the generic driver from Windows, it won't have much for adjustments.  You may be able to find a better driver from the manufacturer's web site that will allow some adjustments.
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I almost entirely agree with the previous answer.\nThe only possible thing to watch out for is the next version of Windows, dubbed Windows Vista.\nThis OS is going to come packaged with a new drawing API that uses the capabilities of your 3D card.\nThe quality of what your OS displays is going to be correlated to the specs of your 3d card.\nNvidia keeps a list of GPUs expected to work to some extent with Vista. Obviously, the more recent chips are likely to yield better rendering quality.\n\nIf you don't feel the need to always run the latest software, you don't need to worry about it.\nOtherwise, you may want to plan for the future.
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step 1: find out what the minimum requirements are\n\nstep 2: find out what kind of graphics slot you have (agp 8x or pci-express)\n\nstep 3: find out how much you can or want to spend on your new video card\n\nstep 4: go to an online retailer and start reseaching prices on video cards that match the above steps.\n\nstep 5: buy the video card\n\nstep 6: remove old video card drivers and card (if you are changing companies) and insert new card\n\nstep 7: install/reinstall new video drivers\n\nstep 8: play game
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None I can think of, but even though if you find it you won't able to play a smooth 3D graphic game. \n  The reason to have a good 3D card is to help generate a detail graphic with certain pre-programed graphic logarithm build in in the card to reduce the CPU processing time.\n  So if you want the CPU to generate all the graphic in the game, which make the game very very slow, highly likely it is not playable.
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Try a Google search for:\n\n"No valid rendering code path detected"\n\nwith the quotes.  You will see that when this question was posted on a forum where people might know the answer, the first question usually asked of the poster was: What video card do you have?  I won't ask that here, because I wouldn't know what to do based on the answer.\n\nBut if you see the forums where people who had this problem got help, you may either find your answer, or something that will lead you to your answer, or you can just choose one of the forums and post your own query there.
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http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html\n\nThe above link is a visual representation comparing "video card" performance.
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Nvidia GeForce 7800, PCI-X, preferably with 512Mb of RAM. Very expensive, though.
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Assuming he has windows XP, Rick click on a blank area of the desktop and select Properties from the menu. in the window that opens find the tab on the top called settings, it is the leftmost tab. In this section click the button called advanced,in the resulting window click the tab at the top called Adapter. The information is about your video card, Chip Type will tell you who made the chipset of the card and what type it is, Memory size is also listed. To know if it is sufficient for your games read the information supplied with the game, if the memory on your card is lower that whaqt the game recommends it is probably insufficient. If you cant figure it out from there write the information down and take it to your local computer shop or best buy and consult one of their representatives, typically they will be able to assist you, although they will usually attempt to sell you the most expensive high end card they have if you talk to them they will usually in the end make a reasonable recommednation on what you need.
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It looks like the motherboard has an AGP 4X slot.\nA further constraint is imposed by the psu which is 250W at best (in the mini tower configuration).\nThis rules out the nVidia 6600 & 6800 and (I'm guessing - the 7800).\nThe only AGP 4X cards this leaves at my usual source (scan.co.uk) which will drive two monitors have only a single DVI connector plus a D-Sub(analogue) and TV-out.\nThe nVidia 6200 has only a 64bit memory bit rate, so I would recommend an ATI offering - I am unaware of any power problems - but do your own research!  \nGiven the AGP/power limitations - don't expect to get a card than can play the very latest games, even with the eye-candy turned off, but I do know that the 9550 would play both HL2 and Doom3 at 800x600 on my son's AMD2500+. noAA.\nI couldn't find any reference to on-board graphics on the link below, but I did notice that desktop configuration will take only a half-length card (17.65cm)... I don't think that's an issue - it's 15 cm to the back of the AGP slot - faster cards may well be bigger...\nhttp://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=174195\nhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814153008
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Supposedly it is because the theory is that games were not written to go on dual-core processors so the fastest single core one is the best,,therefore the AMD FX. The best video card to go with it IMHO is the Nvidia 7800GTX. If you have enough $$,then two of these in SLI will blow away anything. The 512MB Version of this card is over $700, so it all depends on how much money you have.
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Below is a few different methods of determining the type of video card in an IBM compatible computer. Although most of these methods are for IBM compatible computer's, Apple computer's could also use some of the methods listed below to determine the type of their video card. \n\nMethod One: \n\nMany versions of Microsoft Windows will automatically detect and install your video card. Assuming no video issues currently exist with the video card you can determine the type of video card under display adapters in Device Manager.\n\nNote: If you are experiencing video issues or the video card is being detected as a "Standard VGA" adapter it is likely what Microsoft Windows is not detecting the type of video card and if you need to determine the type of video card for drivers you will need to try the next step. \n\nMethod Two: \n\nMany video cards and chipsets will list the type of video card and/or memory during the POST. Try rebooting the computer and as it is first booting press the "Pause / Break" key to temporarily halt the computer's boot process and read the text on the screen. If you are unfamiliar with video card manufacturers / chipsets write down some of the company names you see and search our video card driver section for that company.  \n\nMethod Three: \n\nThe below steps require that the user first get to a MS-DOS prompt. Information about getting to a MS-DOS prompt can be found on document CHDOS. \n\nAt the C:&#92;> prompt type the below commands.\n\ndebug <press enter>\n\nAt the - prompt type the below command. \n\nd c000:0040\n\nAfter typing the above command you should receive several lines of text similar to:\n\nC000:0040    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    ................ \nC000:0050  E9 63 7B 00 B4 10 49 27 - E9 FE 2B E9 F7 2B 50 4D  .c{...I'..+..+PM \nC000:0060  49 44 58 00 5B 00 00 00 - 00 A0 00 B0 00 B8 00 C0  IDX.[........... \nC000:0070  00 5B 53 54 42 20 6E 56 - 49 44 49 41 20 54 4E 54  .[STB nVIDIA TNT \nC000:0080  20 76 65 72 2E 20 31 2E - 31 30 20 0D 0A 00 1B 43  ver. 1.10 ....C \nC000:0090  6F 70 79 72 69 67 68 74 - 28 43 29 31 39 39 38 20  opyright(C)1998 \nC000:00A0  53 54 42 20 53 79 73 74 - 65 6D 73 20 49 6E 63 0D  STB Systems Inc. \nC000:00B0  0A 00 22 6C 2C 0A 01 00 - C3 50 24 7F E8 60 36 58  .."1,....P$..'6X \n\nAs you can pick out in the above dump this gives you enough information to determine the make and the year made on the video card. On line 4 you can see the make of this video card which in this case is a nVIDIA TNT which would be the Riva TNT chipset. The next line you notice the version of the card and finally the line thereafter is the copyright or the year manufactured generally.\n\nIf you are unable to capture any information which sounds like the video card you can also type\n\n-d c000:0090\n\nThe above line will give you a dump similar to the above example however may have additional information about the video card.\n\nNote: If the video card is onboard you may get the motherboard name and/or chipset. If you have an onboard video card you should get the video drivers for your chipset. Commonly the video drivers / chipset drivers are available through the motherboard manufacturer. \n\nOnce you're ready to exit the debug prompt type "quit" to exit back to the MS-DOS prompt. If you wish to close the MS-DOS window type "exit".\n\nMethod Four: \n\nUnplug everything from the back of the computer and open the computer and look for any visual identification directly off of the video card or motherboard. Many times you can find the manufacturer name, model, serial number, and/or other unique identifications that can be used to identify the type of video card or video chipset you have. \n\nMethod Five: \n\nIf you are unable to locate a manufacturer or model number of the video card, however are able to locate a FCC identification number it is recommended that you perform a FCC search using t
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The memory on your Video card has nothing to do with the memory that you put on the mother board. One is used by the video card and the other is used by the system to schedule processes and to load programs that you are running.
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Just open it up and look at the card, I would bet it is integrated sound all the same, and if it is would probably be either 8331 or NVIDIA.  There is also a nifty tool called DriverGuide Toolkit, and it is free available here.\n\nhttp://www.driverguidetoolkit.com/
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This has nothing to do with the CPU.  It has everything to do with the graphics card(s) you use.  I'm easily able to do this with an NVidia GeForce 5200 with a single DVI and a single VGA output.  Some systems using ATI cards MIGHT require defining the "primary" monitor - only the primary monitor can display video with ATI cards I've seen.  This may hold true for dual video cards as well.
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It doesn't. They are one in the SAME. A graphics card isn't just a frame buffer(a data buffer that you write to that represent the current display). The Asus card uses an NVIDIA chip. This is also called a GPU(graphics processing unit). It's like a cpu except its designed for graphics processing. Without it the CPU would have to go through a lot of effort to render just a single frame. Eventually that rendered image makes it to the display. This is really efficient because it's gets rendered and displayed on the same card. It's done through a really quick internal bus on the GPU chip.