Did I screw up?

[weaver11b]

Ok here's my situation: last year I bought the Asus Ranger Crossblade FM2+ MB along with the AMD A10-7850K APU with integrated Radeon R7 GPU. I was on a tight budget and built it relatively cheap; however I mainly played World of Warcraft on low-medium settings, but now i switched to playing Skyrim and other more GPU demanding games and bought an NVIDIA GTX1050Ti 4GB GPU. I already have an NVIDIA Shield TV which i would kind of like to stream games onto that from my PC.

Now, did i mess up by going with an NVIDIA GPU or should i have went with an AMD and set up a crossfire situation? I should have asked this before i purchased GPU, but was too impatient and now i am second guessing myself. Am i going to be messing up my APU by having an NVIDIA GPU, or doesnt it really matter? Should i also go into device manager and disable the AMD R7 gpu under display adapters? And in the end does it just come down to personal preference for GPUs?

 

[bishopi5]

it does not matter at ALL, as soon as you dropped your 1050ti into the Motherboard it disables your iGPU and runs just like a normal CPU not an APU, great decision going with nvida !

 

[velocityg4]

It doesn't matter. Crossfire would be of no benefit with integrated graphics.

I should think you would disable the integrated graphics in the BIOS. If they aren't disabled automatically. So they aren't wasting RAM.

 

[weaver11b]

Ok, thanks for both of the replies, really appreciate it! Quick too! I will check in my BIOS next time i reboot, but in device manager it says my R7 is still active. I am looking forward to seeing what i can get graphics and performance wise now with a dedicated GPU!! so happy!