On board VGA + Separate VGA (dual Vga )Performance

[Nicole Ino]

Hi

I have NVIDIA Gforce 8600GT Vga card
And My Mother board has
Intel GMA X4500 graphics (G41 Chipset)
that mother board allows me to set up dual vga cards (Onboard +Separate)

I want to know what is the best way ?
is good if i use dual mode?
or what happens if i use separate card only?
i have problem about performance

Which one one is the best way?
I am using dual monitors if i use dual vga mode i have plug one of my monitor into onbord vga

Thanks

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... I like to run dual monitors too... the 8600 is a 3D gaming card, the x4500 is not, it is good for web pages/text/documents. When gaming use the 8600 for your main screen. The 8600 will run dual monitors, but not very well... There are better Cards that will run dual monitors better than your 8600 if you are ready to invest/purchase around $80.

 

[Spectre694]

The port on the motherboard will use integrated (onboard) graphics. so the performance of the monitor attached there will be far less that that attached to the card. Best would be to put them both on the card. The onboard are really only good for web browsing.

If that's all the second monitor is for it won't matter.

 

[Nicole Ino]

Thanks For Your Reply

i am not looking for gaming performance but i do use some 3d application like blender,unity3d
i want to know if i use onboard vga +Separate card (Dual VGA Mode) can i have better system performance compare to use separate card Individually ?

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... that is a test your eyes can determine for your self...
Plug both monitors into your 8600 and change your "screen resolution" settings in Windows, and give it a test drive for a day or Two, then change it back to your x4500 and 8600 agian to see the difference...

 

[Spectre694]

Thanks For Your Reply

i am not looking for gaming performance but i do use some 3d application like blender,unity3d
i want to know if i use onboard vga +Separate card (Dual VGA Mode) can i have better system performance compare to use separate card Individually ?

Most of that is done on the CPU so the GPU is only showing the results meaning it won't matter. However, if you have an application that uses CUDA (some of those 3d programs do as well as some of their plug ins.) Then you will want to make sure that those use the Nvidia card as the intel does not support CUDA.