Why do motherboards have places to connect monitors?

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Im looking at building a gaming pc and was wondering why both the graphics card and the motherboard have HDMI ports. What is the purpose of having a place to connect the monitor on the motherboard? Is this for dual monitor setups? And which place should I plug my monitor into?

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Depending on the type of motherboard you are talking about, some have integrated graphics, either in the motherboard itself, or built into the CPU. For users who don't need a dedicated graphics card, i.e., a system for just browsing the internet for example, the integrated graphics is more than enough.

If you add a dedicated graphics card, you definitely want to connect the monitor to the graphics card, not the motherboard.
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Depending on the type of motherboard you are talking about, some have integrated graphics, either in the motherboard itself, or built into the CPU. For users who don't need a dedicated graphics card, i.e., a system for just browsing the internet for example, the integrated graphics is more than enough.

If you add a dedicated graphics card, you definitely want to connect the monitor to the graphics card, not the motherboard.
 
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Ok got it, thank you!
 
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Ok, got it. Thankyou!
 
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