[Stevemartin]

Hello everyone,

My computer has an integrated chip set on the motherboard and I am planning on installing a new graphics card. Will the computer run both the chip set and graphics card, or will it automatically switch over and use only the graphics card?

Can anyone give me some input on that place?

Thanks a lot
Steve Martin


3D Monitor

[arttorney]

Generally when an operating system is booting up it looks around to see all the hardware it is connected to and makes a note of it. You will be able to see the device listed in Device Manager. Sometimes it will seem like something doesn't work just because the computer is defaulting to another thing. Usually the computer can be told not to do that.

I suspect that as long as your graphics card is compatible with the CPU it will either work, or else it will work after you install the driver that comes with it and answer all the installation questions correctly.

[Blindrat]

As far as I know unless the chip-set is designed to work in conjunction with the video card you're installing it will only run one or the other. I had one computer that had a 780 chip-set and used ati hybrid graphics which enabled an ati card i had installed and the onboard graphics to load at the same time.

So to find out if you can do that or not you'd have to look up your chip-set specs. I know a few chip-sets can do it, but not all are made that way.

[arttorney]

Well, there is that "one or the other" problem. I know you can get past that in Linux, but not necessarily so in Windows.

[carol189]

When you install a dedicated graphics card, the integrated graphics switches off.