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[Buckeneye]

but your graphics card still determines what is on your screen.

I'm afraid its a tad more complicated than just that bud...:)

 

[OSUScoonie12]

I'm afraid its a tad more complicated than just that bud...:)

Haha, i know that...but you know what i meant.

Unless i'm totally wrong in thinking this. If you played Mass Effect 2 with a graphics card from 2009 vs a graphic card from 1999....i'd have to imagine that the 2009 would be leaps and bounds better then the 1999, even for cloud computing. Obviously a 2009 card is better then 1999 card, but does it matter for cloud computing? In my mind if definitely would.

 

[jwinslow]

You're assuming that your PC's graphic card is doing the heavy lifting, when all it does is display something being computed remotely.

 

[scott91575]

Haha, i know that...but you know what i meant.

Unless i'm totally wrong in thinking this. If you played Mass Effect 2 with a graphics card from 2009 vs a graphic card from 1999....i'd have to imagine that the 2009 would be leaps and bounds better then the 1999, even for cloud computing. Obviously a 2009 card is better then 1999 card, but does it matter for cloud computing? In my mind if definitely would.

To be fair you are not going to be dusting off your old Pentium 2 and playing Mass Effect 2. It's more like an early Core Duo machine. Yet a GPU is not that important since you will be receiving already rendered images. Sort of like streaming a movie over the internet. Currently nettops with NVidia Ion can do 1080p movies. I would think that would be similar power needed for a 1080p video game (you may be able to choose lower resolutions for lower powered machines, I am not sure).