Well I want to buy a new motherboard and processor....but the motherboard I want to buy contains a built-in graphics card of 128mb...(Intel)...but in my old motherboard I had a NVIDIA GeFORCE MX4000 128mb....and I wanted to know which one is better, and why?
2007-09-29 01:50:21 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Can I use both graphic cards?
2007-09-29 01:50:58 · update #1
Integrated graphics has limited capability because of less number of shaders and it just shares memory from system RAM. Discrete or expansion graphics card have models with large numbers of shaders or stream procesors as well as fast (up to ddr3) dedicated memory onboard.
If you are buying a NEW motherboard, choose one with x16 PCIe graphics slot. Your outdated MX 4000 will not be compatible, so consider this "bang for the buck" for a start:
http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/Point_Of_View_Geforce_8400GS_Overclocking/5133-1.html
2007-09-29 02:21:55 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Imposible to tell given the information you have provided. Built-in graphics chips are a great way to get a cheap computer. If you're not doing any 3d gaming, they are just fine. If you get a decent motherboard today, the built-in graphics will will probably knock the socks off that ancient GeForce MX4000. If you want serious graphics, then you'll need to buy a serious graphics card - like the GeForce 8800 range.
Compare and contrast graphics cards here:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html
2007-09-29 08:53:20 · answer #2 · answered by Linux OS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Typically a separate video card is better than one onboard. The MX4000 is rather dated and would likely have trouble with the some of the latest 3D games. It is possible to run multiple video cards. You could slap half a dozen PCI video cards in a PC and use all of them with Linux. I believe multiple video card operation is a little trickier with Windows, not that it's a piece of cake with any OS to begin with. Some motherboards will only allow you to use the onboard or the expansion video, not both.
2007-09-29 09:17:43 · answer #3 · answered by tj 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is your existing card better? Don't know, you do the research. Google is a good place to start, as maybe Tom's Hardware.
On-board graphics can not (normally) be upgraded. The latest and greatest card, or even the not so greatest should surpass on-board graphics, easily!
2007-10-02 06:49:36 · answer #4 · answered by Sp II Guzzi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Onboard video can be problematic and more often than not utilizes shared memory, so it's using some of your ram as video memory which is very bad. Bad because system ram is very slow compared to vram which comes on video cards, and most good video cards come with their own gpu relieving your cpu of having to perform additional processing.
2007-09-29 08:54:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
external one
2007-09-29 08:57:36 · answer #6 · answered by Tri T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋