GPU or not?

foreright

foreright

foreright

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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.
 
I presume you mean 8 GB!

You can easily tell where the bottleneck lies by bringing up Task Manager. If your CPU is running at 100%, then you need a CPU upgrade. If one of the CPU cores is running at 100% and the other cores are near idle then you should try a different browser. Task Manager will also tell you if you need more RAM. And so on.

There's one key factor you haven't mentioned: your internet bandwidth. Most likely the cause is your internet bandwidth with all those advertising sites taking a long time to respond, and an adblocker will sort that out very quickly.
 
WantoN said:
The REAL question is what websites are you visiting that are so full of pop-ups? ;)
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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.
 
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?
 
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?
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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 said:
Speedtest.net shows that my ping is 19ms and speed is 220mbs download, no mention of bandwidth.
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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?
 
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?
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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.
 
Right. You are CPU-bound. Get yourself an ad blocker to knock those ads on the head. A Flash blocker would be a good idea too.
 
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