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My neighbor is thinking about replacing his eight year old Hewlett Packard desktop. I found and fixed a dodgy 24" LCD display and gave it to him, so he only needs the desktop. Doesn't want a laptop, tablet, etc.
Nearly every machine he sees for sale has "integrated" graphics. Part of the motherboard memory is used for graphics processing. Result: lower cost, but less available system memory, and slower graphics.
As he's into YouTube and other video, I'd think a separate graphics card - with its own memory - would be good.
Question: as long as a desktop has at least one free PCI slot, couldn't I just put a PCI graphics card in? Or is that a no-no?
Thanks.
Tom
Nearly every machine he sees for sale has "integrated" graphics. Part of the motherboard memory is used for graphics processing. Result: lower cost, but less available system memory, and slower graphics.
As he's into YouTube and other video, I'd think a separate graphics card - with its own memory - would be good.
Question: as long as a desktop has at least one free PCI slot, couldn't I just put a PCI graphics card in? Or is that a no-no?
Thanks.
Tom