Re: Ok, who is the computer whiz here

* Thom Madura:

It is now time for me to upgrade my desktop at home and I have a question.

Is there any real need to get a super whiz bang Graphics card - when I do not use my computer for gaming?

If you don't do any gaming or heavy 3D applications then no, you don't need a highend gfx card.

I use it primarily for Business applications - E-mail - and the like. I use a lot of Spreadsheets, some Database applications, occasionally a presentation type thing (Normally these are made to me). I average about 800 e-mails a day (Yup - sometimes even more - but I don't answer all of them).

For these applications a computer with shared memory gfx (i.e. intel GMA series) would be more than sufficient.

I would think that a high clocked Core 2 Duo or Quad with lots of RAM would be most important.

No. If dual core processors wouldn't be so cheap then a single core CPU would do it just fine. As to memory, 2GB is more than enough.

I doubt I would see the difference between the graphics cards.

Exactly.

Benjamin
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