Intel HD4400 vs Geforce GT 430?

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I'm building a backup/ semi-portable PC from extra parts I have around, and I'm wondering which graphics I should go with. I am building this system so I can take it along with me to my parents' house when I stay there for holidays and still get my WoW and STO daily tasks done. I won't be doing any raids or combat with it, so it doesn't need to be too terribly powerful.

The system I'm building is using a low profile Micro-ATX case from an old HTPC I retired a few months ago when I got my FireTV, so the graphic are limited to low profile cards. I went with a H97 mATX board and a Core i7 4770k I had from a failed delidding experiment recently. (I thought I had ruined it, but last night I discovered it does actually run despite damage to the packaging, but I still didn't get the lid off.) I have a Geforce GT 430 video card with a low profile bracket from the same old HTPC, but I'm not sure if that card or the GT430 would be faster at either game. Any advice?
 
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You could always overclock your GT 430 to out do the hd 4600. I've overclock my GT 540M (I know, it's a laptop but I have good cooling) +45mhz and I get up to 10+ fps in portal 2 and war thunder.

However, if power and heat are issues because of the PSU/Case then defiantly stay with the IGPU.
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The Core i7-4770K has the HD 4600 GPU not the HD 4400. The HD 4600 and the GT 430 have almost the same performance, but the HD 4600 is a bit better.

So i say, go with the iGPU in the i7. If you could get some high bandwidth RAM you could ensure your gaming experience.
 
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Sorry, yeah, my mixup there. I thought it was the 4400, but looking it up in Ark, yeah, it is the 4600.

I have 2X4GB low latency DDR3-1600 right now. I would prefer to keep from spending more money at the moment, after all I spent on my Haswell debacle recently. So, this will have to do for this project.
 
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You can also do a minor igpu overclock to help with game settings and FPS.
 
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According to Passmark benchmark they are almost equivalent, but the HD 4600 is just a little better. This may be true because on nvidia's page it says the GT430 uses GDDR3 only. That sometimes is a big performance limiter.
 
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You could always overclock your GT 430 to out do the hd 4600. I've overclock my GT 540M (I know, it's a laptop but I have good cooling) +45mhz and I get up to 10+ fps in portal 2 and war thunder.

However, if power and heat are issues because of the PSU/Case then defiantly stay with the IGPU.
 
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The GT 430 is slightly better than HD4400 but the difference is not noticeable
 
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News: I tried out both after a little experimentation. WoW ran quite well on the GT 430, but absolutely sucked on the HD4600. It was a huge difference. I had to turn the quality settings way down to get it to run on the Intel IGP.

Star Trek Online ran about the same on both, which is to say pretty sucky. It looks horrible and has everything looking all blocky. With a little fine tuning, I was able to raise the quality of stuff that mattered (texture quality, character model quality) to levels that looked pretty good while eliminating things that weren't worth having anyway (lens flare, bloom intensity.) After those adjustments, the GT 430 worked pretty well, but I had to tune down the quality further on the IGP.

As for Intel's claim that their IGP is good enough to take over low end discrete graphics, I have to dispute that.

I'm glad I didn't sell that GT 430.
 
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