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HD4200 is completely pathetic as with most older IGP's(and new ones just less so). Afaik its 40shader's basically, or stream processes as they are officially called.
The card you linked will be significantly faster but realistically is about the worst card you can buy performance/price. A £50-60 next card up has significantly more speed. THe one you listed at £42 has 160 shaders,
It plays everything listed with the settings turned down, he has some software that needs dedicated graphics ram which the IGP doesn't have though and that's the main reason for the upgrade.HD4200 is completely pathetic as with most older IGP's(and new ones just less so). Afaik its 40shader's basically, or stream processes as they are officially called.
I picked a good one then ay, haha. I can get it £10 cheaper elsewhere though (unfortunatly for OcUK), does that help?The card you linked will be significantly faster but realistically is about the worst card you can buy performance/price.
Yeah that's the trouble, most people don't use the low end cards for gameing so it's hard to know what they are capable of, even more so when your as clueless as me when it comes to graphics cards.To be honest I haven't gamed on anything below an top end card in years so I can't say exactly what settings you'd get for a given card but, I think its safe to say a 480shader card will enable significantly higher settings than a 160 shader card, but still nothing like top end settings. Another £20 on top of that last one would get you a £90 6770, 800 shaders, and really not at all bad performance for some higher resolution mid setting gaming.