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Originally Posted by johnnymysto
Menoman,
Since this computer has integrated video, could I get any improvement in the video area by adding more RAM?
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Yes and no, by adding more ram you will have a system with more memory to deal with the game, right now you in effect have 192mb of ram for your system, and 64 for the video card. Some on board cards let you set how much memory is shared, I don’t think yours does but you can check inside the bios and see if you can set it. Even then giving it more memory will not allow for better processing power for the game, just let you use larger textures which will make it look better but not improve performance at all.
you probably don’t want to upgrade the mother board, it would be a big hassle, if you were to do some serious upgrades, you want to start from scratch and cannibalize parts of this computer (the memory, the hard drive, the floppy, cdrom) you would want to replace the power supply because usually companies cheep out on them so they only produce enough power to satisfy the systems needs, with out much room for anything else. For now I think your best bet is the PCI video card, and a stick of 512mb pc2700