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    How can you tell if a motherboard has intergrated graphics?

    Anybody know if there are any indicators?

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    Re: How can you tell if a motherboard has intergrated graphics?

    Quote Originally Posted by tony_dudz View Post
    Anybody know if there are any indicators?
    Check the specs

    If there is HDMI/ DVI out then it obviously has. If there is a picture of the i/o then you can check that too.

    Specs should tell you what the graphics are too

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    Re: How can you tell if a motherboard has intergrated graphics?

    On the connector panel there will be dvi/vga ports to plug your monitor into.

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    Re: How can you tell if a motherboard has intergrated graphics?

    Quote Originally Posted by tony_dudz View Post
    Anybody know if there are any indicators?
    Simples: there will be some sort of graphics connector on the I/O shield at the back. Most likely VGA or DVI, though newer boards have HDMI, and I have even seen a TV-out socket on one board.

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    Re: How can you tell if a motherboard has intergrated graphics?

    Quote Originally Posted by PC4Free View Post
    Check the specs

    If there is HDMI/ DVI out then it obviously has. If there is a picture of the i/o then you can check that too.

    Specs should tell you what the graphics are too
    Quote Originally Posted by barker967 View Post
    On the connector panel there will be dvi/vga ports to plug your monitor into.
    Quote Originally Posted by chrestomanci View Post
    Simples: there will be some sort of graphics connector on the I/O shield at the back. Most likely VGA or DVI, though newer boards have HDMI, and I have even seen a TV-out socket on one board.
    thanks people, yes it does have a dvi connector.
    That was sorted out quickly haha
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    Re: How can you tell if a motherboard has intergrated graphics?

    i dont know if this motherboard does?
    http://www.ebuyer.com/product/205849
    anybody know, i dont thinks its a dvi, vga or anything else?

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    Re: How can you tell if a motherboard has intergrated graphics?

    Quote Originally Posted by tony_dudz View Post
    i dont know if this motherboard does?
    http://www.ebuyer.com/product/205849
    anybody know, i dont thinks its a dvi, vga or anything else?
    nope, just googled and it doesnt
    ah well, il just wait patiently until the end of the month before i can buy my HD 6850

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    Re: How can you tell if a motherboard has intergrated graphics?

    Nope the 870chipset doesn't have onboard graphics.
    The 880G or 890GX of the newer amd chipsets do have onboard graphics.

    Always just pick up some very cheap pci-e card off ebay just to get it up and running for now.
    Also handy to have as a back up graphics card just in case.

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    Re: How can you tell if a motherboard has intergrated graphics?

    Quote Originally Posted by PC4Free View Post
    If there is HDMI/ DVI out then it obviously has.
    Not necessarily. Keep in mind some of the newer Intel CPUs have the graphics chip and thus some motherboards don't necessarily carry onboard graphics, just the DVI/VGA/HDMI ports. On those motherboards if you get a CPU without the integrated GPU, you'd need a dedicated graphics card.

    I really have lost track of the Intel naming scheme. It's a complete mess at the moment. Why couldn't they just name the CPUs with the integrated GPUs something else? i3G or something. Or is that registered to Apple?

    Not even Nvidia make it this hard.

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    Re: How can you tell if a motherboard has intergrated graphics?

    Quote Originally Posted by Pob255 View Post
    Nope the 870chipset doesn't have onboard graphics.
    The 880G or 890GX of the newer amd chipsets do have onboard graphics.

    Always just pick up some very cheap pci-e card off ebay just to get it up and running for now.
    Also handy to have as a back up graphics card just in case.
    Thabks for the tip, but would my psu not be on overkill and harm the computer?
    thanks

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    Re: How can you tell if a motherboard has intergrated graphics?

    No, low end discrete graphics cards only use about 20W peak. That's only going to bother your PSU if you're already running on the ragged edge, in which case you should be thinking about upgrading the PSU anyway

    What PSU and what other components?

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    Re: How can you tell if a motherboard has intergrated graphics?

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    No, low end discrete graphics cards only use about 20W peak. That's only going to bother your PSU if you're already running on the ragged edge, in which case you should be thinking about upgrading the PSU anyway

    What PSU and what other components?
    ah man, its ok, i was just wondering what overkill meant, sounded dodgey but its okay now, my psu is 500w good brand one so its grand, just want a graphics card for testing purposes

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    Re: How can you tell if a motherboard has intergrated graphics?

    Umm I think he might of meant the other way around, a PSU far more powerful than that's required will not damage the pc, it'll just run rather inefficiently.

    However conversely Jim is correct that low end cards use very little power and shouldn't push you over the edge, if it did then you really should replace the PSU anyway.

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    Re: How can you tell if a motherboard has intergrated graphics?

    Quote Originally Posted by tony_dudz View Post
    ah man, its ok, i was just wondering what overkill meant, sounded dodgey but its okay now, my psu is 500w good brand one so its grand, just want a graphics card for testing purposes
    What is the brand BTW??

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    Re: How can you tell if a motherboard has intergrated graphics?

    Quote Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH View Post
    What is the brand BTW??
    its this one cat http://www.ebuyer.com/product/124922
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    Re: How can you tell if a motherboard has intergrated graphics?

    Oh dear, well never mind, that's not a good brand at all, they are one step up from some of the real junk PSU's, covered front to back in half truths and rely on the name sounding a bit like Arctic Cooling to make people think that they are made by AC.

    These power supplies are just about passable, and would of been very good 10years ago (which is when the internal design is from) stick it in a basic non-gameing computer that doesn't have a high to mid range graphics card + a low end cpu with no overclocking, and it's fine, nothing special but fine.
    Any thing more than that and forget it.

    Replace that psu before you stick a mid/high end gpu in your pc, as all you'll do is risk killing your hardware.

    http://www.compucase-hec.co.uk/psu_a...00-600-700.htm
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    What's so funny about that? well pci-e 6pin lead is rated 75watts max, and a single molex is rated at 60watts max
    And let's not even look into how you're supposed to power an SLi setup with just a single adapter and a single 18a 12v rail.

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