Sunday, May 6, 2012

How to know if motherboard has onboard integrated video card?

when i see this product names for motherboards i'd see words like nvidia and geforce...aren't those product names for video cards, so does that mean if a motherboard's product name includes any word like "geforce" then that motherboard has an integrated video card? pls. can anyone help me how to identify whether a motherboard has onboard video card?|||You can usually tell by looking at the ports.



One of the ways to tell from desktop is right click my computer, goto properties. If you have 512 ram, and it reads 480, then 32mb is dedicated to onboard, since it will not have its own memory like an aftermarket graphics card. Instead it shares the system memory(ram).





If you do have dedicated, you can change this amount in your bios to dedicate more or less depending on your needs.



You can also right click my computer, properties, device manager, and under the display tab, you can see what type of graphics card you have. That should give you some idea to what type it is. If still not sure, google its name.



Obviously a laptop you won't be able to tell by looking at the ports, so the memory dedication will give you a better idea.|||Easiest way is to look at the back of the computer and see which way your connector is facing. If your computer is standing up and the VGA connector is facing up and down, then it's integrated. If it's parallel to the floor, then it's more than likely not onboard.

Some motherboards have integrated NVidia graphics, so that's not usually a good indicator.|||If its a nvidia motherboard(ex. N-Force780i) then it probably wont. the nforce mobos are designed to get max performance when you use DEDICATED graphics.|||When there is a VGA or DVI port on the motherboard itself|||there will be a VGA port

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