Onboard video?

elitehacker said:
Hmm, I still think that two is better than one. I'm not sure if 3dmark 05 and 06 support dual core CPUs, but Dual Core CPU systems get a higher score with the same graphics card.
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I wouldn't doubt at all that dual core chips score better benchmarks with the same graphics card. The C2D has much improved architecture over the Athlon and Pentium. I think the majority of games are not specifically written to take advantage of both cores yet though. When that does happen I'm sure single core will become totally obsolete. I don't know how much of a disadvantage I'm giving myself by running a single core, I'm probably losing some FPS. However all of the newer games will run on a single core most of them without stuttering or skipping. One huge problem I've encountered with single core is that when the CPU has to process a background task the glayplay slows and that's highly annoying. That never happened with the C2D. I'm sure the days of single core are numbered.
 
ok but my friend has an amd like 3200+ and 1 gig of ram and a 50 dollar mobo, and a 200 dollar GPU and he has BF2 on max...
in that case task::::

Build.. under 300
Mobo, GPU, PROCESSOR
 
you are SOL without PCI Express x16, you need that to get BF2 on mid settings, I doubt a conventional PCI would do it. Current video memory has nothing to do with that, that is saying how much you allow the onboard video to share off of your RAM. It tells you no more video memory because you have the maximum allowed amount of shared memory that your PC will let you have. I wouldn't call it new but, yeah, that is what you want/need.
 
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