ATI unveils 512mb Video Card

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Originally Posted by GameMaster

It even has its own fan, lol. Do most high capacity models have a fan?

I don't really know much about video cards. Is it just the visual delivery they improve? If yes, is it terms of how well it makes a game look or is it terms of how fluidly the game moves? And when you play a game, is the computer drawing the memory from your video card or just the general computer memory?

all video cards in hte past 1-2 years have a fan (or most anyway)

you can compare VRAM (i think that's what it's called, Video RAM) to the regular PC RAM, the more you have, the better performance, in this case, it improves both visual and performance speed wise.

when you play a game, the computer draws memory both from the RAM and the VRAM...RAM for the program to run and be able to withdraw data from the HD (models, etc.). and the VRAM for fluidity and visual quality.


as for the 512MB card: