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Date:
11/11/2011 11:30:11 AM
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RE: w00t
As for boosting performance with either the 7100 onboard or the GF 210, there's really not a lot you can do. You can try disabling background processes and services, but that usually doesn't make a huge amount of difference and can make other things malfunction. You can try the usual litany of stupid ideas -- moving the swap file to another drive, using registry cleaners, deleting gears, etc. -- but I'm pretty sure this won't provide enough gain to be useful.
An onboard solution shares memory with the CPU, so it's designed for light 2D desktop stuff. A low-profile card may give you some gain since you're (sort of) offloading graphics tasks to the card's video memory, provided you turn off the onboard graphics in BIOS or make whatever change it allows that stops system memory sharing.
But unless the discrete card moves 3D images around better than the onboard thing -- i.e., unless it acts as a true GPU and offloads that management (somewhat) from the CPU at an acceptable rate -- you'll see only slight gains if any.
The GF 210 supposedly can maybe manage L4D at about 30fps if your resolution is 1024 x 768, and then you have to use low-quality settings. That may be all you need. If so, it's money well spent.
