Quote:Whatever speed you get with 1xNative IR, that's the same speed you're going to have with a new video card, only you can raise your IR and make it look better without losing speed.
Incorrect, his GPU is so bad that it will bottleneck the cpu even at 1x. 640 x 528 is not some magic resolution that all GPUs can handle.
Quote:If he lowers the IR now to 1x, his GPU is not is not going to bottleneck his processor and he will get the speed his CPU is fully capable of. Adding a better video card is going to allow him to raise his IR without losing speed, but his processor is still going to run the game at the same speed.
Incorrect, same reason as above, his GPU simply isn't good enough even for 1x.
He'll get fullspeed in WW once he gets a graphics card. I'm stunned that he's even able to get 70% speed on that IGP (probably indoors).
Okay, change out 1x with 0.5 and everything is correct again.
Nope. WW might run fullspeed then but even at .5x he'll have problems in a lot of games. A 7025i is inbetween a 6150 and 6200 graphics card and much slower than any graphics card in the 7 series or above. I don't think you fully grasp just how bad a 7025i is.
Specs of a 7025i:
Core clock: 425MHz
Vertex shader units: 1
Pixel shader units: 2
Texture mapping units: 2
Render Output Units: 2
Vertex fillrate: 0.10625 GV/s
Pixel fillrate: 0.85 GP/s
Texture fillrate: 0.85 GT/s
Memory: shared main memory, no dedicated video ram
That's your opinion. For the sake of arguing we'll use the WW example where his GPU is not the bottleneck and his processor is free to run the game the best it can, that is the same speed he will get with a new video card, he'll just be able to raise the IR more without losing speed. That was the whole point of these posts till you got hung up on one number.
Quote:That's your opinion.
My opinions didn't make those numbers.
Telling him his only benefit from upgrading his graphics card will be the ability to raise his IR higher and get the same performance is just flat out wrong. HE NEEDS A BETTER GRAPHICS CARD, his GPU will heavily bottleneck that cpu no matter what he does.
I guess you didn't bother to read passed those three words. Talking to you is becoming a chore I no longer wish to do.
For reference, my rig (which is a 955 as you can see) can run Wind Waker at fullspeed with 1.5x Internal Resolution, 2x in most places, with no AA, so anything from my card should be good for that. Lower than a 9500/9600 or an AMD equivalent, I thing he'd get some slowdowns in big areas