Originally Posted by
PJD1
If the PC is running slow it is highly unlikely that the graphics card is the culprit and I doubt very much if you will see any improvement by replacing it. The reason for slow running is much more likely to be a software issue, probably due to accumulated "junkware" and "bloatware" that gets accumulated over the years and loads lots of unnecessary stuff that runs in the background and slows the computer down. Probably the best thing that you could do would be to back up your data, do a clean install of the operating system and re-install any software that you need. This would be much more likely to improve things than replacing a graphics card.
Yup, I have done all the cleaning and removal of junkware possible, pretty much everything except reloading the programs and starting over.
The video card, as I and others mentioned above, performs at the bottom of all performance comparisons and at 2% according to userbenchmark. I should get me a new and improved version and that is where I will start.
The next gizmo will be an SSD harddrive, that should speed up things as well and at $90 I am well below the cost of buying a new machine.