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Old 06-10-2011, 04:03 PM  
Serge Litehead
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Originally Posted by Deej View Post
That was my first thought when i read that you NEED to buy a better video graphics card... HOw in the fuck does the graphics card change the speed of your processor thats "solving these math problems"?
like 3d modeling doesn't require processing power to render detailed hd quality imaging in gaming
GPUs are like work horses, they can crunch math problems all day long. CPUs are geared more towards multitasking and such but bad in number crunching, which is very obvious by overtake of GPU in bitcoining. ati's streaming processors kick nvidia's ass in mining

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https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Why_a_GPU...ter_than_a_CPU

now pass that reefer hehe
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