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Crippled performance by graphics card

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Blasterpc8

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My system of celeron 800 runs slower than my pentium 650 with Nvidia TNT2. However, doing benchmarks shows vice-versa results. What i mean slow is during surfing internet, pages display slowly(like pentium 200). Every page is like rolling from top to bottom. This happens also when in windows explorer windows or minimising. All windows animations do not work. However in the pentium 650 tnt ultra system, pages display in a flash. So i think the main culprit is trident's cyberblade ai graphics card. It has a lousier than ever 2d performance and uses shared ram technology. My question is, will a lousy graphics card cripple a system's performance? Or the processor is not up to the job. I just want a machine which can let me surf internet.
 
Slow video performance can slow loading of pages when surfing the net. Check pricewatch for a cheap pci video card along the lines of a Geforce MX or a Radeon 32MB. Either should be plenty of power for internet surfing.
 
Well it is somwhat hindered by the video card. But it is also being hindered by the celeron. A pIII 650 would beat a celly 800 in many things.
 
Yes, onboard graphics can cripple a slow system. Some are better than others, but to be honest with you I don't think much of tridents onboard solutions (always seemed very slow to me). If you disabled that onboard video and dropped in a decent $30-40 video card you would be much happier.
 
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