Motherboards With Onbobard Video - Question

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by 20Valve, Mar 13, 2008.

  1. 20Valve

    20Valve Sergeant

    In my research, as posted in a previous thread, I stated I was finding dedicated boards without onboard video. I would be willing to purchase one if I knew the disabled onboard video would cause a performance hit. If I make use of a separate PCI-express video card will the onboard video, even though disabled and unutilized, will the overall performance of the system suffer?

    Thanks for any help.
     
    20Valve, Mar 13, 2008
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  2. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Well, depends on what your doing. Games, video and photos can make a good video card important. If you want to use your computer to search the web, do email, edit test documents and so on then its not a big deal. Ill explain a few things without getting too indepth.

    Onboard video usually uses system memory, where a dedicated video card has its own memory. THIS is the huge performance hit in most cases. So, you need more memory in many cases with an onboard video card. So, if you buy a computer with Vista and 1 gig of ram, its going to run slowly. You would need 2-3 gigs.

    Intel onboard video cards are about the worst video card on the market overall and extremely popular on many motherboards by name brand computer manufacturers. They get the job done, but fail more and higher end games and multimedia.

    My advice? Save money, buy a motherboard with onboard video (Nvidia motherboards have Nvidia video and are the best cards on the market at this time) and if your not happy, then buy a video card, plug it in and disable onboard video. If it works out for you, you save a couple hundred bucks. If it does not, you spend a couple hundred your considering now anyway.

    Good luck!
     
    Major Attitude, Mar 13, 2008
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  3. 20Valve

    20Valve Sergeant

    Major Attitude -

    Thanks for the reply. I should have mentioned I am aware that an onboard video setup would be slow. Basically, I just wanted to know if even disabled, would the card slow the system down?

    I use my rig for gaming mostly, so a dedicated video card is a must! Thanks for the info, sorry I was not clear in my explanation!
     
    20Valve, Mar 13, 2008
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  4. dlb

    dlb MajorGeek

    No. If you have on board video, and install a seperate video card into a PCIExpress slot or an AGP slot, the card will over-ride the on board video (usually automatically), and the on board will not affect the PC performance. However, there are some motherboards where you MUST turn it on using the in board video at least once without the video card installed so you can enter the BIOS and disable the on board video, and tell the BIOS to initialize the PCIExpress (or AGP) slot first. Then you'd shut down and install the video card. Thankfully, these boards are not very common.
     
    dlb, Mar 13, 2008
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  5. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    What he said.
     
    Major Attitude, Mar 13, 2008
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