I have the P5GD1 in my ''Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo P
I have the P5GD1 Motherboard in my ''Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo P desktop''. I have a little trouble when rendering video or making photo slideshows using ''Roxio Creator 9''. It slows right down and mostly fails. If i upgrade the existing memory from 1Gb to 3Gb would it make a significant difference please or would i be better off investing in a new base unit? Any other upgrades i would be advised to make?
Computers & Internet - ASUS - P5GD1-VM Motherboard
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Depends, increasing the memory will speeds up the system overall. However, you are using slide shows photos, rendering video which will slow down any system that uses a graphics card with slow memory on it or too little memory. It may be an Asus MB but it was made for Fujitsu. The motherboard does have a PCI-E slot. If you increase you're memory to 2GB and install a fast PCI-E graphics card with 512MGB of DDR3 memory you're system will run much faster.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9800_gtx_plus_us.html
The next video card is a bit slower than the one above. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4410186&CatId=1826
Cheers'
Mike