boost graphics card?

Hi a,

You cannot upgrade your internal GPU. I do not know about an external solution. Speed could be hindered by lack of RAM. Open Activity Monitor and see what it says for Page Outs and Swap Used and post back.

If you upgraded the graphics card to a more powerful one, there is a good chance it would have higher energy requirements and produce more heat. This would not make the fan situation any better, and might even create a higher demand on the cooling system and fans.

With Thunderbolt it is possible that you may be able to put a desktop graphics card in an external Thunderbolt chassis and plug that into a MacBook Pro, but I don't know if there are any graphics cards that your video software supports that would work that way.

athlete93freak wrote:

page outs fluctuates between 0kb/s and 900kb/s

swap used is 24.5 MB

It looks like you're on the edge of where more RAM could help.

didnt see post back anywhere

Just meant to write back to us here. 😉

though i did just notice CPU usage is totally topped out.

User: 98%

Look to see if any one or two processes are using a lot of CPU. And what apps are you running/what are you doing at the time?

athlete93freak wrote:

page outs fluctuates between 0kb/s and 900kb/s

swap used is 24.5 MB

Very little activity on both fronts, then. In terms of moving memory around, that's almost no data rate (you could move more data per second by merely surfing a web page of photos) and nearly no disk space used, if the numbers are transcribed correctly. Typical swap sizes should be at least 500-1000MB...for light usage.

Sounds like this is not about disk and RAM but more about CPU and/or GPU.

Hi Network,

Is that something new on Lion and above? I'm still (happily) on Snow Leopard and I've never seen a page out or swap used.