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September 5, 2014 7:03:32 AM

hey .. i am an amateur lol.. is it ok if i installed 2 graphic driver ? 1 is VIA Chrome9 HC IGP family display and one more is VIA display Vista driver .. i am running on windows 7 32 bit

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a b \ Driver
September 5, 2014 7:33:50 AM

Yes it's fine that you have two separate drivers. The VIA display Vista driver is probably a VESA styled driver. If you looked at your hidden devices you'd see a lot of different graphics drivers.

The real question here is where in the world did you get a laptop with a VIA GPU? :o 

This is the first time I've heard of VIA making GPUs. I know they used to make CPUs for small form factor PCs; usually for big corporate clients but never GPUs.
September 7, 2014 8:44:08 AM

dovah-chan said:
Yes it's fine that you have two separate drivers. The VIA display Vista driver is probably a VESA styled driver. If you looked at your hidden devices you'd see a lot of different graphics drivers.

The real question here is where in the world did you get a laptop with a VIA GPU? :o 

This is the first time I've heard of VIA making GPUs. I know they used to make CPUs for small form factor PCs; usually for big corporate clients but never GPUs.



ok thanks for the answer :D 
btw .. i have predicted that you will ask about that lol haha .. mine isnt laptop .. its a quite old computer. my mobo is E90 PCI Express.
i cant see my graphic card on the PCI slot .. so it means its on-board ?
according to dxdiag .. its 179 mb. :( 
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a b \ Driver
September 7, 2014 2:40:57 PM

ErickHartawan said:
dovah-chan said:
Yes it's fine that you have two separate drivers. The VIA display Vista driver is probably a VESA styled driver. If you looked at your hidden devices you'd see a lot of different graphics drivers.

The real question here is where in the world did you get a laptop with a VIA GPU? :o 

This is the first time I've heard of VIA making GPUs. I know they used to make CPUs for small form factor PCs; usually for big corporate clients but never GPUs.



ok thanks for the answer :D 
btw .. i have predicted that you will ask about that lol haha .. mine isnt laptop .. its a quite old computer. my mobo is E90 PCI Express.
i cant see my graphic card on the PCI slot .. so it means its on-board ?
according to dxdiag .. its 179 mb. :( 


Back in the old days before APUs and such, manufacturers used to slap the GPUs on the motherboards instead to make for cheaper manufacturing; similar to how Apple solders their RAM onto their iMac motherboards today in order to cut down on costs. Sometimes you'll still see onboard motherboard GPUs today in modern computers but the last one I saw was an AMD Radeon HD 4350 and that is from about 5 years ago.
September 8, 2014 8:40:18 AM

thanks for the explanation .. now i understand lol
btw .. i have got that onboard graphic card .. is it possible if i add another graphic card ?
i mean external graphic card
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i see that under your message .. is it ur computer's specs?
September 8, 2014 8:41:34 AM

dovah-chan said:
ErickHartawan said:
dovah-chan said:
Yes it's fine that you have two separate drivers. The VIA display Vista driver is probably a VESA styled driver. If you looked at your hidden devices you'd see a lot of different graphics drivers.

The real question here is where in the world did you get a laptop with a VIA GPU? :o 

This is the first time I've heard of VIA making GPUs. I know they used to make CPUs for small form factor PCs; usually for big corporate clients but never GPUs.





ok thanks for the answer :D 
btw .. i have predicted that you will ask about that lol haha .. mine isnt laptop .. its a quite old computer. my mobo is E90 PCI Express.
i cant see my graphic card on the PCI slot .. so it means its on-board ?
according to dxdiag .. its 179 mb. :( 


Back in the old days before APUs and such, manufacturers used to slap the GPUs on the motherboards instead to make for cheaper manufacturing; similar to how Apple solders their RAM onto their iMac motherboards today in order to cut down on costs. Sometimes you'll still see onboard motherboard GPUs today in modern computers but the last one I saw was an AMD Radeon HD 4350 and that is from about 5 years ago.


thanks for the explanation .. now i understand lol
btw .. i have got that onboard graphic card .. is it possible if i add another graphic card ?
i mean external graphic card
.

Fractal Design Define R4|Seasonic SSR-550RM|i5 4670K @ 4GHz|AMD XFX BEDD 7970|Corsair H100i|MSI Z87-G45|Samsung 840 EVO 250GB|16GB RAM
i see that under your message .. is it ur computer's specs?
a b \ Driver
September 8, 2014 8:49:26 AM

Yes those are my specs. Why do you ask?

If you want to know if you can add a discrete card you'd need to know what type of slots you have on your motherboard. If you want to upgrade it for gaming it probably wouldn't be a very beneficial upgrade just because of the nature and age of your system.
September 9, 2014 7:57:14 AM

dovah-chan said:
Yes those are my specs. Why do you ask?

If you want to know if you can add a discrete card you'd need to know what type of slots you have on your motherboard. If you want to upgrade it for gaming it probably wouldn't be a very beneficial upgrade just because of the nature and age of your system.


i think i have a few PCI slots lol .. dont worry i am not going to upgrade hahah
i know it wont worth it.. just asking for a little knowledge ^_^
cool .. amazing specs.. i bet its a gaming cpu right ?
thanks alot :D 
honestly checked every single thing of your specs hahaha
September 9, 2014 7:59:16 AM

dovah-chan said:
Yes those are my specs. Why do you ask?

If you want to know if you can add a discrete card you'd need to know what type of slots you have on your motherboard. If you want to upgrade it for gaming it probably wouldn't be a very beneficial upgrade just because of the nature and age of your system.


how about that samsung 250 gb?
SSD or HDD?


September 9, 2014 8:17:53 AM

ErickHartawan said:
dovah-chan said:
Yes those are my specs. Why do you ask?

If you want to know if you can add a discrete card you'd need to know what type of slots you have on your motherboard. If you want to upgrade it for gaming it probably wouldn't be a very beneficial upgrade just because of the nature and age of your system.


i think i have a few PCI slots lol .. dont worry i am not going to upgrade hahah
i know it wont worth it.. just asking for a little knowledge ^_^
cool .. amazing specs.. i bet its a gaming cpu right ?
thanks alot :D 
honestly checked every single thing of your specs hahaha


"PCI" slots, per se, are fairly old upgrade slots. While some devices today still use PCI (like if you wanted to add extra USB ports or maybe a wifi card), graphics cards based on PCI haven't been available for many years. Today, many new motherboards don't even have PCI slots. The modern interface used for discrete video cards today is PCI Express (usually PCIe or PCI-E) 16x. That may or may not be what you have, I'm just trying to keep the nomenclature straight to avoid confusion. Edit: if yours is a laptop, you don't have any such slots.

There isn't really such a thing as a "gaming" CPU, but the Core i5 line in general is considered the sweet spot for price/performance for games. Anything more gets you relatively little improvement, and anything less is a sizable performance loss.
a b \ Driver
September 9, 2014 8:42:22 AM

ErickHartawan said:
dovah-chan said:
Yes those are my specs. Why do you ask?

If you want to know if you can add a discrete card you'd need to know what type of slots you have on your motherboard. If you want to upgrade it for gaming it probably wouldn't be a very beneficial upgrade just because of the nature and age of your system.


how about that samsung 250 gb?
SSD or HDD?





Here is my completed build if you're interested. (that link is also on my steam profile which you should be able to see in my signature as well, if you click on it)

Anyways, as the other user stated, there has not been any PCI based GPUs in a very long time. The most common device I've seen still using the PCI are sound cards; most wireless adapters I see use PCI express x1 slots now.

If you can find a discrete GPU that uses PCI it is certainly one of antiquity.
September 9, 2014 9:54:33 AM


hahah ...thanks for the infos ..teach me alot :D 
i really like computer like yours ! up to date and it must have excellent performance.
but since i am still a student .. 16 y.o. .. i have no income and i can do nothing to this computer.
hope one day i can be like you guys .. computer experts!
^_^
September 9, 2014 9:59:42 AM

oxiide said:
ErickHartawan said:
dovah-chan said:
Yes those are my specs. Why do you ask?

If you want to know if you can add a discrete card you'd need to know what type of slots you have on your motherboard. If you want to upgrade it for gaming it probably wouldn't be a very beneficial upgrade just because of the nature and age of your system.


i think i have a few PCI slots lol .. dont worry i am not going to upgrade hahah
i know it wont worth it.. just asking for a little knowledge ^_^
cool .. amazing specs.. i bet its a gaming cpu right ?
thanks alot :D 
honestly checked every single thing of your specs hahaha


"PCI" slots, per se, are fairly old upgrade slots. While some devices today still use PCI (like if you wanted to add extra USB ports or maybe a wifi card), graphics cards based on PCI haven't been available for many years. Today, many new motherboards don't even have PCI slots. The modern interface used for discrete video cards today is PCI Express (usually PCIe or PCI-E) 16x. That may or may not be what you have, I'm just trying to keep the nomenclature straight to avoid confusion. Edit: if yours is a laptop, you don't have any such slots.

There isn't really such a thing as a "gaming" CPU, but the Core i5 line in general is considered the sweet spot for price/performance for games. Anything more gets you relatively little improvement, and anything less is a sizable performance loss.


i see.. i got 1 card in my pci slot .. something with telephone's cable behind lol..
there is also one PCI x16 slot on the mobo .. got in from the guide book.
guess that slot wont give so much changes .. haha
this mobo is too old to be upgraded.. maybe will use this until i get my own money hahha
thanks for the answer then !
!