Need for Video Card

[cmcgehee02]

This may be a dumb question but other than for Gaming or Video Editing, does a video card add anything to performance of a computer?

 

[happy medium]

watching hd videos.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Well, you need some sort of video output, unless you're building a headless server. But if you are comparing onboard video to a discrete card, no, you don't need a discrete card if you aren't gaming, or using GPU computing. Onboard these days is good enough for basically everything else, including some light gaming (CivCity Rome, SimCity4, etc.)

 

[cmcgehee02]

Thanks for the info. I did not know if it improved monitor video picture over the onboard video or not.

 

[TemjinGold]

Image quality for normal things/movies, no. Speed is where it's mostly at.