More Power for Steam

By Chris Bybee

Graphics cards such as brands like ASUS, can provide vital resources like extra memory. Some of these graphics cards are already used in computers, like in the wood shop and the yearbook room specifically for editing and graphic design. Should this equipment be added ti all computers that are owned by the school such as in the lower grade classes on the other side of the school? No computer in the school (laptops) besides the computers in the shop and yearbook room have these and I believe that they should! Laptops however, with no graphic changes available to them, can stay as is. I’ve seen the insides of our old desktops, and they are not all that expensive, so putting even the same types of cards into the desktops we already have can greatly improve the speeds of our students work, while using programs like Autodesk or another 3D render program.

As far as laptops go, cards are not really needed because normal students with laptops will have no need for a 3D render program, however for those who do, a computer that has that upgraded technology like a graphics card, could be supplied to them if it is needed for the education of that specific student. Now, from my old blog about RAM, this can be the same concept because of how much memory can be stored inside the graphics card itself. I believe that the cards in our desktops now have about 512 megabytes of random access memory stored inside of them to help with the speeds of the game and or program it is trying to run that just needed a little bit more of the computers system resources.

With this new equipment, students can work a little faster than they would have been able to because of how fast the program could be running. So let’s say that a student spends 10 minutes of his time waiting for the program to load up while the student next to him waits 5 with the new equipment. Even with that short of a time difference, it can make a large impact in how much work can be done for these students allowing teachers to move on to any new lesson faster to get their work done just a tad faster too! I’ve stated my reasons as to why I think that this is needed for our students in programs such as Steam and LEAF because they can get so much more done than before.