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Originally Posted by PsychoRS
Honestly I prefer Nvidia graphics cards over ATI, but that's just my preference. You should be good with any of those cards. Just depends on how much $$ you want to pay and how much VRAM you need/want.
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Thats the problem... I dont want to spend more than I have to, and I dont understand the benefit of VRAM. I have been trying to do research into video card stuff, but all I can ever find is in reference to gaming, so I can't figure out what it means if your not gaming.
Is more vram better than less? (well yes obviously, but in the forums I've read it says "ram doesnt matter if your not throughputting enough info to get "caught up". How do you figure out how much info your throughputting? What do you need for video and graphics work?
I haven't had any issues with my GT 9600, so quite frankly I'm thinking "it doesnt really matter" but I wish I could find a good way to understand it better, so the best I think I can do is go with the benchmarking data I've tracked down which seems to show that the radeon cards around the $110 price range dominate the GeForce.... but the trade off is less VRAM, but then everywhere I read it says it doesnt really matter...
Thanks so much for the pointers!
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