I have an older HP DC7800 with Core2Duo, using Intel GMA 3100. When I load flash video, CPU usage spikes. I was told that a dedicated graphics card addon could resolve this issue if I selected hardware acceleration in Flash. If I put in either Radeon HD5450 or GeForce GT210, would this solve the problem? Would Flash then use the card's GPU.
I understand Flash is basically a container. How would I find out if the video is h.264 which I believe is required to have hardware acceleration.