includes a graphics card 120 in one embodiment the graphics card 120 may be an ati radeon u2122 graphics card from advanced micro devices inc u201c amd u201d or any other graphics card using memory in alternate embodiments the graphics card 120 may in different embodiments be connected on a peripheral component interconnect pci bus not shown pci express bus not shown an accelerated graphics port agp bus also not shown or any other connection known in the art it should be noted that embodiments of the present invention are not limited by the connectivity of the graphics card 120 to the main computer structure 110 in one embodiment the computer system 100 runs an operating system such as linux unix windows mac os or the like in one embodiment the graphics card 120 may contain a graphics processing unit gpu 125 used in processing graphics data the gpu 125 in one embodiment may include a storage element 310 discussed in further detail below with respect to fig3 in one embodiment the storage element 310 may be an array of storage elements which may be part of an embedded random access memory ram an embedded static random access memory sram or an embedded dynamic random access memory dram a cpu 140 gpu 120 or some other integrated circuit ic in alternate embodiments the storage element 310 or array of elements may be embedded in the graphics card 120 in addition to or instead of being embedded in the gpu 125 in various embodiments the graphics card 120 may be referred to as a circuit board or a printed circuit board or a daughter card or the like in one embodiment the computer system 100 includes.