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Question about dedicated graphics cards

Ecco · 2006-10-07 14:56:15

Just wondering would having a dedicated graphics card on a laptop make DVDs run any better ?

07-10-2006 3:56pm

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Ecco

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Just wondering would having a dedicated graphics card on a laptop make DVDs run any better ?

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#2 07-10-2006 5:43pm

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Generally speaking, no.

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#3 09-10-2006 1:36am

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Depends if the combination of the CPU and GFX (inboard or not) combined is capable of playing back a DVD smoothly. For example my PIII 733 and onboard isn't but stick a fx5200 in there and it is.

Basically on any modern machine its as tom dunne says.

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#4 09-10-2006 7:46am

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If you are having problems, it's more then likely that it's a software or possibly optical hardware issue, unless you're using an old Pentium 2 laptop with onboard or similar....generally speaking onboard video is perfectly fine for watching dvds, again, unless its a truly ancient machine.

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