Would a higher-end video card speed up internet browsing?

I understand that a faster modem/router/NIC/processor/etc. could speed up internet browsing. Aside from that, would a higher-end video card help?

You may ask what is slow about my browsing? I think it's all the ads waiting to populate. I've used AdBlock from Chrome before, but it seemed like it did a decent job of blocking ads, but that process itself kept my browsing slow.

Other thoughts:

1. Disabling cookies?
2. Different browser besides Chrome?
3. Store internet cache in a RAM-disk?
4. Different packet size in my modem?

Thanks... (now using Windows 7-64, Chrome, and a $10 video card.)

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Gerald Connolly

8/22/2022 - Mon

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8/4/2016

A higher end video card is unlikely to make a difference, in my opinion. Your bottleneck is likely somewhere in your network or network card. What results do you get when you run an internet speed test? http://www.speedtest.net

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Thomas Zucker-Scharff

8/4/2016

I noticed an initial increase in speed with FF as well, although due to one of my add-ins, wisestamp, it has slowed down when reading webmail. wisestamp is working on this.

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8/4/2016

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SpeedTest results: Ping 20ms, Download 82Mbps, Upload 8Mbps.

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