Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Can Intel GMA 4500 support 3D games?

There are some pretty good integrated graphics card out there, but integrated is not the way to go if you want to be playing 3D games. They actually take resources away from the system, like memory (which is shared), which can slow the system down. You may be able to play some games, but not very smoothly with maxed out graphics settings. Integrated cards are not better than ATI or NVIDIA cards I'll tell you that. Those cards have the power to run the 3D shaders, lighting effects, filters, anti-aliasing, etc. that games use nowadays. But for older games, you may be able to run them with an integrated card. If you do happen to get an integrated card, you won't be able to play any of the new games that are coming out now.

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