[filmscanners] Re: Onboard Graphics and Filmscanning

["Don Marcotte" <donmarcotte@shaw.ca>]

I use an onboard video card (8MB?) in an 800MHz Pentium 3, 512MB RAM PC. I
can't compare speeds to a 32MB video card but the speed of my editing is
fine. Maybe I don't appreciate the speed of a 32MB video card but I can't
imagine a huge difference when I manipulating 27MB (8 bit) or 55MB (16 bit)
images. Changes in PS7 are very quick, a fraction of a second usually.
Scanning is a different story but that has nothing to do with the video card.

Don

At 03:08 PM 09/06/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>A friend with a Coolscan IV and a very slow PC wants a faster PC.
>
>For a similar price I can build at fast 1700 Athlon, 512 meg RAM with a
>separate 32 Meg video card PC or he can purchase a similar spec machine
>ready built with onboard video that shares the system RAM.
>
>The cost of machines ready built with a separate card is considerably
>dearer.
>
>Has any one edited say 30 Meg scans with a machine with onboard video,. My
>thoughts are it will be noticeably slower than a machine with a separate 32
>meg video card.
>
>If not, it saves me building him a machine. Comments please.
>
>Eddie
>
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