Hi,
I've got an Intel Core i5-2500 in an Asus P8Z68-V LX S1155 Intel Z68 DDR3.
The motherboard has on-board (Intel) graphics with VGA / DVI / HDMI but I thought it would be better to use a PCI Express graphics card with it's own RAM to keep processing/memory separate from the system so I put in an AMD 5450 850M 1GB DDR3 PCI Express card (wasn't too expensive but I don't play games so I don't need something mega powerful).
However, comparing the Windows 7 system scores between the on-board and the ATI, the on-board is better.
I dual boot with Windows 7 and Linux.
Am I better off with the on-board Intel?
Is there a way I can use both the on-board and the ATI at the same time so I can use both HDMI ports? - putting the PCI-E one in seems to disable the on-board.
Thanks,
Ian
I've got an Intel Core i5-2500 in an Asus P8Z68-V LX S1155 Intel Z68 DDR3.
The motherboard has on-board (Intel) graphics with VGA / DVI / HDMI but I thought it would be better to use a PCI Express graphics card with it's own RAM to keep processing/memory separate from the system so I put in an AMD 5450 850M 1GB DDR3 PCI Express card (wasn't too expensive but I don't play games so I don't need something mega powerful).
However, comparing the Windows 7 system scores between the on-board and the ATI, the on-board is better.
I dual boot with Windows 7 and Linux.
Am I better off with the on-board Intel?
Is there a way I can use both the on-board and the ATI at the same time so I can use both HDMI ports? - putting the PCI-E one in seems to disable the on-board.
Thanks,
Ian