Desktop with actual video card ?

[Magnum]

I have been looking around for a desktop system.

Does anyone sell desktops with an actual video card instead of the integrated graphics crap ?

I do not like video graphics sucking up RAM.

Jeez.

[hutch--]

Andy, check your main board for a slot that will accept a recent graphics card. Depending on the age of the computer you are looking for a PCI express slot. If its an older board you may have trouble finding a graphics card for it. Unless you have a lot of money to spend, stay away from high end graphics cards, a cheap 2 gig generic will be better than most onboard graphics and will cost peanuts.

[Magnum]

thanks hutch.

[FORTRANS]

Hi,

   A friend subscribes to a PC games magazine.  They advertise PCs
with high-end video cards for good game performance.  So that may
be a way to go for you.

Cheers,

Steve N.

[Magnum]

Thanks Steve.

[sinsi]

If you have 8GB of RAM the onboard video usually only uses 1GB, that leaves plenty.
Think of onboard graphics as "business graphics", can handle Excel and Outlook but not much else 

Even Dell have discrete graphics, they even go to the effort of putting a cover over the onboard graphics port (with hex screws).

[Magnum]

I found this system for a good price.

AMD A8 Quad-Core PC 4.0GHz: 8GB RAM: 1TB HD with Radeon R7 240 1GB.

GPU is  faster than a CPU.

[sinsi]

Get an Intel i5, AMD are slow and crap at the moment (cheap though).
Lucky they bought out ATI, the graphics business seems to be propping up the CPU side.

[mineiro]

Not really an answer sir Magnum, a bit offtopic but many guys from that old 'assembly demo' party are now working or founded graphic videos business. Can be a good research about graphics card.
https://blog.kaspersky.com/the-history-of-programming/1356/

[Magnum]

Not really an answer sir Magnum, a bit offtopic but many guys from that old 'assembly demo' party are now working or founded graphic videos business. Can be a good research about graphics card.
https://blog.kaspersky.com/the-history-of-programming/1356/

Thanks for the sir, but I am not that old.

I hope to be around for another 30 years, God willing.

:-)

[jj2007]

https://blog.kaspersky.com/the-history-of-programming/1356/

Nice link, mineiro:

I have to point out that in order to truly nail those tasks, one has to be damn creative, drink a lot of coffee (or smoke a lot of weed, let's be honest) – and have an insane IQ level. The movement itself started around 1988, basically, together with first more or less widely spread version of MS-DOS. It had no official name, but according to the laws of evolution, sooner or later they'd have to compete. And this is how "Assembly" was born in 1992.

In 1992 a group of Scandinavian coders called "Future Crew" together with their friends from "Complex" and "Amiga" programming groups organized an event called "The Assembly" in order to share the results of their kick-ass work on Assembler language and compete for the title of the Best Coder of the year. There were several disciplines, but two most interesting are platform (PC, Amiga, C64) demos and PC 64k.

Around 1986, I already coded in assembler on the Atari ST, with no 64k limit. My biggest source is still around, almost 3,000 lines of dense 68000 code.

[dedndave]

In 1992 a group of Scandinavian coders called "Future Crew" together with their friends from "Complex" and "Amiga" programming groups organized an event called "The Assembly"

...or F.U.C.C. A.A.S.S., for short

[Siekmanski]

Everybody in those days talked about the "Future Crew" as if they where Gods.
Wonder why they made a Demo called "Unreal".

The reality was, all the routines they showed where already done by Amiga demo coders.
Next demo was called "Second Reality".......

But it was fun to watch there productions, PSI is a realy cool coder.
And I realy liked the music composed by Purple Motion and Skaven, talented guys.  8)

[Magnum]

In 1992 a group of Scandinavian coders called "Future Crew" together with their friends from "Complex" and "Amiga" programming groups organized an event called "The Assembly"

...or F.U.C.C. A.A.S.S., for short

Welcome back, Super Dave. :-)

[mineiro]

I have to pinpoint the fact that all graphics, including faces and characters in all demos of Assembly are drawn ONLY using the code – those are not picture-files included in the demo. No, sir!:)

This is what impress me. Drawing using code, if you give to me a pen and paper I can't do that.
Well, caveman know how to draw better than me, I should evolute like that guys. :lol:
I remember playing Neuromancer,street rod and 4dboxe on ms-dos and after emulated by an amiga, wow, much better graphics version.
But I have only cheap video cards, and this is why I stay on windows for a long life, my video card cannot have full resolution on X graphical server on linux. I'm remembering about mulinux, my first contact created by an italian, loaded from ms-dos.