A or B?

[Describe]

Excuse my naivety guys but isn't option B the following?

[barlew]

Well i have got to say i am surprised. If those are the specs he is playing that game on then onboard graphics have come a long way. However it still looks like crap and it still has a horrendous frame rate. I for one will be sticking with a dedicated gpu.

[Rakk]

It was also only at 1280x1024 resolution, which by todays standards is a pretty low resolution.

[Yrubdarb]

Putting a 2-core AMD CPU in a computer meant for serious use is not sensible so option B is what you should choose.

On-board graphics standards have improved a lot over the last year or two but they are still a long way from perfect. I think the main problem with AMD on-board graphics is that they can get memory-starved compared to discrete graphics solutions; 512 megabytes set aside for graphics is not much nowadays.

[Describe]

Putting a 2-core AMD CPU in a computer meant for serious use is not sensible so option B is what you should choose.

On-board graphics standards have improved a lot over the last year or two but they are still a long way from perfect. I think the main problem with AMD on-board graphics is that they can get memory-starved compared to discrete graphics solutions; 512 megabytes set aside for graphics is not much nowadays.

Is it possible for me to set aside more than 512 megabytes for my graphics in a sort of partition or something?

[Yrubdarb]

Is it possible for me to set aside more than 512 megabytes for my graphics in a sort of partition or something?

It's limited by the memory-access circuitry on the chip so no, you can't increase it.