Do Haswell motherboards have integrated graphics?

AlfexOmega

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Do haswell motherboards have intergrated graphics or do only the cpu's? Or both?
My friend the video ports on the motherboard dont work unless the cpu has intergrated graphics
if the motherboard dosent the video ports wont do anything is this true?
 
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ok; haswell motherboards do not have integrated graphics only some of the cpus do. The video ports will not work if the cpu does not have integrated graphics. If you want to game a discrete (seperate) graphics card should be used as the graphics on the cpu's are not brilliant. Also there are different types of integrated graphics on intel cpu's: the Graphics 4800 chip and the graphics 5000 chips. the...

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ok; haswell motherboards do not have integrated graphics only some of the cpus do. The video ports will not work if the cpu does not have integrated graphics. If you want to game a discrete (seperate) graphics card should be used as the graphics on the cpu's are not brilliant. Also there are different types of integrated graphics on intel cpu's: the Graphics 4800 chip and the graphics 5000 chips. the 4800 is the lower end graphics solution and the 500 series has more power and more cores however are only found on a few chips. neither of these are particularly powerful so if you really dont want a seperate graphics card you may be better off with the slightly more powerful graphics units of amd's APU chips
 
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