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 Originally Posted by Poker Orifice
Do I need a Graphics Card?
ABSOLUTELY! Your Graphics card has it own GPU, which is going to take almost all the load that would otherwise go to your CPU. Having done a bit of programming, I can assure you that a huge majority of most of the software you're running is dedicated to the graphical interface. It's good economics to have a component in your system that is solely dedicated to bear that load.
Personally, I'd scrape the extra money together to step up a couple of levels on the graphics card. Your SSD is going to give you the ZOOOOM you're looking for, but don't you want to pop visually, too? You should definitely spend at least $100 on a graphics card if you're running 1080p, and up to ~$500 if you're ever going to play decent video games. That's a pretty linear bang-for-the-buck zone in graphics cards.
Also, I don't know if other people have a similar rule of thumb, but I think ~1/4 of the total cost of the computer system should be in the graphics card.
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