GPU or not?

foreright · 21 Oct 2016 at 11:07

I have a small form factor Gigabyte M/B and an i3 CPU. I only use the PC for office work and browsing. But I find certain sites that are full of external links and advertising pop-ups take a long time to populate.
Apart from blocking popups is there a way to accelerate population or is the solution a dedicated GPU. If the GPU is the solution, could you please recommend me a cheapish one please.

I have Gigabyte GA-B85M-HD3, i3, 8mb Ram, 128 SSD and W7 64 bit.

I'd appreciate your help, thanks.

foreright · 21 Oct 2016 at 11:51

WantoN said:
The REAL question is what websites are you visiting that are so full of pop-ups?

Although I'd don't frequent these sites. I occasionally am tempted to see what people have aged like. These links appear at the bottom of more bona-fide sites and when you visit them, the pages take forever to populate.
http://okceleb.com/incredible-celebrity-transformations/3/ for example

My BB speed is 200Mb on VirginMedia.

foreright · 21 Oct 2016 at 12:14

Orcvader said:
Why not just use an adblocker? Although I just checked with that site, and even with the adblocker off it still loaded pretty decent for me on a 16mb connection. Have you done a speed test to check if the Virgin connection is not being congested? Maybe change the DNS servers to Google?

My BB is running 220mb. Most sites populate nearly instantly. It's only the ones in my example and Google maps and TomTom map for other examples.

foreright · 21 Oct 2016 at 14:47

Quartz said:
That will be the maximum speed. Use a speed checker to find out how much bandwidth you're actually getting.

Speedtest.net shows that my ping is 19ms and speed is 220mbs download, no mention of bandwidth.

foreright · 24 Oct 2016 at 06:09

WantoN said:
Epic broadband just pwned Quartz

A graphics card in this instance should have no impact on the speed of popups e.t.c to load, is almost entirely a processor load.

Please provide feedback as requested before, are all cores loaded, or just one?

Epic broadband just pwned Quartz - what do you mean?

I used a performance monitor and when loading the graphic/ad intense site. It showed CPU usage at 100% and at one point each of the 4 cores showing 100% too.