Desktops: INTEGRATION (electronic type, not human)
INTEGRATION (electronic type, not human)
by DK - 8/19/05 11:44 AMI'm looking at a Sony desktop. The question that comes to mind about the specs is that both the audio and video are "integrated". What exactly does this mean? Is there not a separate video card?
The basic specs are:
Memory Type DDR
Total Memory 1.0GB
Interface SATA
Capacity 250GB
Optical Drive Type
DVD±RW Dual Layer CD-ROM
Audio Description Integrated Audio
Graphics Description Integrated Graphics
Video Memory 224MB Shared Memory
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
That's what it means.
by R. Proffitt
- 8/19/05 11:55 AM
In reply to: INTEGRATION (electronic type, not human) by DK
To push down costs, if you can fit the audio and video sections onto the mainboard then it's cheaper.
Bob
I should add that I do a lot of Photoshop
by DK - 8/19/05 11:56 AM In reply to: INTEGRATION (electronic type, not human) by DKwhich uses a huge amount of resources.
I don't see how PS could care about this item.
by R. Proffitt - 8/19/05 12:04 PM
In reply to: I should add that I do a lot of Photoshop by DK
3D games do care, but 2D items like photo work and even video editing don't suffer a big impact.
Bob
uh yeah it's onboard
by ozos - 8/20/05 4:13 PM In reply to: INTEGRATION (electronic type, not human) by DKwhat it means is that the audio is provided by the motherboard itself (that's amazingly common and it's not a bad sign)
so is the video (that however is a bad thing, it will be terrible in 3D)
basically you have a geometry unit on the mainboard, and the CPU does the processing for it
it's amazingly slow for games, yet provides an amazingly cheap alternative to providing a seperate controller card for the video
which would add to costs due to more power, more heat (which means more cooling) and the expense of that controller board itself
if that system has an AGP slot you could add in a graphics card to be seperate from the main board
if it has PCIe it could also have a card added in, same goes for PCI yet a PCI card will be slow and won't provide much benefit
also, photoshop doesn't really care about the system's 3D abilities
it's 2D work
you'll want a good ammount of RAM and a decent hard drive, which that machine seems to have
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