APU Family CPU

BenOH10

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If my Processor is an APU which means it has an integrated GPU, will that interfere with my discrete GPU?

Thank you for your answers
 
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no, if you get a dedicated GPU it simply disables the integrated GPU. some motherboard vendors have an option to re-enable the GPU so it can be used for video encoding or a second monitor.

say you have a 7870K and a r7 250 you can crossfire the 2 to get faster graphics

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no, if you get a dedicated GPU it simply disables the integrated GPU. some motherboard vendors have an option to re-enable the GPU so it can be used for video encoding or a second monitor.

say you have a 7870K and a r7 250 you can crossfire the 2 to get faster graphics
 
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Thank you but I don't think I can do crossfire/sli since my GPU is nvidia
 

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no you cant, but if you have a "K" series chip apply an overclock to the CPU
 

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depend on your GPU, if you GPU is radeon with dual graphics supported you can active dual graphics

if you are using non Radeon GPU or unsupported dual graphics Radeon GPU, the APU will disabled while gaming (when a program need high graphic performance)