abmscopes
Active Member
Hi 
I currently use a PNY Geforce 210 PCMCIA Express graphics card (512mb) (windows 7 64bit professional). Now I've probably upgraded other components as much as my mother board will take (just added the fastest dual core processor it will take, and memory is maxed out at 4gb).
I notice that the windows experience rates my system as being pretty good for gaming graphics (5.9) but poor for 'windows aero' (3.8). Thing is I don't game at all; all I really want is a system that works as smoothly as it can with windows and especially mapping applications like GoogleEarth, so i'd probably rather see these scores reversed!
Is there a difference between cards which are optimized for gaming graphics and those which are optimized for other uses as the 'windows experience' rating would suggest? If so, what's the best card I can buy to improve my normal browsing and mapping experience?
Thanks!
I currently use a PNY Geforce 210 PCMCIA Express graphics card (512mb) (windows 7 64bit professional). Now I've probably upgraded other components as much as my mother board will take (just added the fastest dual core processor it will take, and memory is maxed out at 4gb).
I notice that the windows experience rates my system as being pretty good for gaming graphics (5.9) but poor for 'windows aero' (3.8). Thing is I don't game at all; all I really want is a system that works as smoothly as it can with windows and especially mapping applications like GoogleEarth, so i'd probably rather see these scores reversed!
Is there a difference between cards which are optimized for gaming graphics and those which are optimized for other uses as the 'windows experience' rating would suggest? If so, what's the best card I can buy to improve my normal browsing and mapping experience?
Thanks!