Whats the diff between on board and dedicated graphic card

• davidche

  19 Mar 09, 19:48

  All i know is that onboard GCs use memory from the RAM sticks while dedicated ones use their own.

   

  Besides tat, does the intensity of graphics tat they are able to display differ a lot?

• kenn3th

  19 Mar 09, 21:28

  let's put it this way. for eg you have a dedicated graphics.

  that means u are assured of 256mb to run your games. most dedicated graphics allow u to have shared graphics too. so if 256mb is not enough u can expand it - up to a certain amount

  for shared graphics, that means, you will have to come out 256mb from your ram. (but it might be lesser or more depending on what is the max of your onboard graphics). this causes strain on the computer.

• SBS7484P

  19 Mar 09, 21:31

  onboard graphics are usually not suited for gaming, unless u have an integrated ati or nvidia chipset which is of fairly good spec.

• nenepokey

  19 Mar 09, 21:32

  Originally posted by SBS7484P:

  onboard graphics are usually not suited for gaming, unless u have an integrated ati or nvidia chipset which is of fairly good spec.

  Intel graphic is really cmi...

• PWNED32

  20 Mar 09, 11:17

  Imagine playing Call of duty 5, left 4 dead,crysis and GTA(the new 1 i forgot) on the integrated graphics

• SBS7484P

  20 Mar 09, 12:02

  Originally posted by PWNED32:

  Imagine playing Call of duty 5, left 4 dead,crysis and GTA(the new 1 i forgot) on the integrated graphics

  
  you can, if you have an integrated ati or nividia chipset powerful enough to handle them.

• SBS7484P

  20 Mar 09, 12:04

  Originally posted by nenepokey:

  Intel graphic is really cmi...

  
  they dont go down well even with really old games.

  even lags on maplestory high res/ details.

• kenn3th

  20 Mar 09, 13:05

  Originally posted by SBS7484P:

  
  they dont go down well even with really old games. 

  even lags on maplestory high res/ details.

   whatever you do. the rule of thumb is, use what others are using. if they use nvdia/ati - follow them.

  dont use graphics card like S3 Chrome ect.

• SBS7484P

  20 Mar 09, 14:22

  Originally posted by kenn3th:

   whatever you do. the rule of thumb is, use what others are using. if they use nvdia/ati - follow them.

  dont use graphics card like S3 Chrome ect.

  
  ati ftw!

• kenn3th

  20 Mar 09, 14:39

  ati coupled with amd processors super hot -_-

• SBS7484P

  20 Mar 09, 14:45

  doesent matter :D

• PWNED32

  20 Mar 09, 18:36

  Me using 9800gtx good anot? The Dedicated is 1GB.

• kenn3th

  20 Mar 09, 19:24

  good

• PWNED32

  20 Mar 09, 21:01

  oh ok.

• MyPillowTalks

  21 Mar 09, 00:00

  The 790 chipset for amd comes with HD3300 onboard graphics

  i think not bad for an onboard graphics
  
  however, nothing beats a dedicated graphics like HD4870x2

• davidche

  22 Mar 09, 13:47

  IM using onboard nvdia. bought 2 gb ram. Hope i can play cz with reasonable resolution XD

• BEARZAIS

  22 Mar 09, 13:56

  Originally posted by MyPillowTalks:

  The 790 chipset for amd comes with HD3300 onboard graphics

  i think not bad for an onboard graphics
  
  however, nothing beats a dedicated graphics like HD4870x2

  
  i thought the 295 gtx is better ??

  i brought the 4870x2 and so far the  drawbacks are that it consume tons of voltage..

   it emits lots of noise and gets hot easily..i dun have a cooler device

  but at least it allows me to play empire total war on full settings.lol.

• nenepokey

  22 Mar 09, 14:45

  Originally posted by BEARZAIS:

  
  i thought the 295 gtx is better ??

  i brought the 4870x2 and so far the  drawbacks are that it consume tons of voltage..

   it emits lots of noise and gets hot easily..i dun have a cooler device

  but at least it allows me to play empire total war on full settings.lol.

  actually GTX295 isn't really good lar...the GPU clock is slow...only at 576MHz. if u take 2 GTX285 to SLI, it's much better, with lowest 648MHz GPU Clock, and the shader clock is much higher.

• PWNED32

  22 Mar 09, 15:19

  So whats the best card? I might buy.

• SoulDivine

  22 Mar 09, 16:04

  I am currently using ATI Radeon HD 4870. I never use integrated graphics for my desktop computers.

• SoulDivine

  22 Mar 09, 16:06

  There isnt really a best graphics card since new ones will keep coming in.

  http://www.sapphiretech.com/us/products/products_overview.php?gpid=250&grp=3

  SAPPHIRE HD 4870 1G GDDR5 PCI-E
• I/O Output: Dual DL-DVI-I+HDTV
• Core Clock: 750 MHz
• Memory Clock: 900 MHz, 3.6Gbps
• PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
• 1024MB /256bit GDDR5 memory interface
• Dual Slot Active Cooler
• HDMI compliant via dongle
• 7.1 Audio Channel Support
• Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support
• Shader Model 4.1 support