If you read the specs on the integrated stuff, it's REALLY barebones, but more importantly in her case, they also use shared ram.. in other words it's sucking the ram she has available for the 3d display, and Poser 7 is then ram starved, which would explain why her manipulations are so slow. her system it thrashing the hard drive trying to keep up.

Especially if she has a higher res preview display set.

When you have integrated graphics, If I recall, the graphic chip also shares most the workload with your processor as well, bogging it down n the process. its really just there so a brand new system without a video card can display dirext x and opengl aplications without erroring.

If you actually look at a graphics card and an integrated graphic chip, you can see how little they must do. There are a large number of chips on my video card, it requires a separate power supply, and advanced cooling. I'd say my card weighs 1/4 of a pound.

The onboard graphics on the motherboard is one thin flat 1"x1" chip. That's it.

Framerates on the integrated chip in UT 2004 were a whopping 16 fps, 800x600.

On my current card, I can crank the res to 1600x1200 turn everything on, and still exceed 150 fps

Bear in mind I have a brand new system with brand new onboard graphics, and have replaced it with year old tech, but relreleased with a better design. (The ati radeon x1950 pro)

It ran about $200, as worth every penny. Even a graphic intensive game like Oblivion runs silky smooth on it.

I can't even imagine trying to run Oblivion with onboard graphics.

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.