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Hi, I just recently installed an EVGA 8800GTS Superclocked card along w/ Corsair 550VX on a AMD Athlon 64X2 4200 w/ 3MB, Vista comp. The mobo had a built in nVidia graphics. My question would be, would i need to disable the stock graphics card once the new one is in? if so how. If not needed, would there be any inherent benefits in turning it off? Im running Samsung 226BW via DVI. Would/Should i expect to see drastic improvement of the display in normal computer usage(i see no difference), or will i only see it once i play a game? Your comments/views would be appreciated.thanks
 
As far as i know, the integrated gfx chip is disabled the moment you install an addon card, feel free to correct me if i'm wrong :D
 
AMD Athlon 64X2 4200 w/ 3MB

wow 3mb of what?

also its all in the bios and should give you some performance gain since onboard is using your ram.. but not much if you have 2+gb of ram..
 
killster1 said:
AMD Athlon 64X2 4200 w/ 3MB

wow 3mb of what?

also its all in the bios and should give you some performance gain since onboard is using your ram.. but not much if you have 2+gb of ram..
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Most uninformed statement of they day.
Huge performance boost and it is all disable one an addon card is detected.
 
Uberbob102000 said:
Most uninformed statement of they day.
Huge performance boost and it is all disable one an addon card is detected.
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well you have most retarded statement of the day... maybe you should work on English before insults! its not that massive of a performance gain like you say. i use 5 lcds on one pc 2xpcie cards and 1xonboard.. and it works just about same as with 1 pcie gfx card
 
Why do you insult it if i spell something wrong? It was late and I was just quickly typing a reply.
Its a gaming card and it will make a huge performance difference.
Depending on his onboard he will see something like 5-10x the performance, probably more.
 
I think you misunderstood his question as he was not asking for a comparison between his new card's performance and his onboard graphics’ performance but asking whether he would see any difference in performance if he disabled onboard graphics while using his new GTS and whether or not he needs to disable it in the first place
 
thank you all for the replies. 3MB worth is for RAM, sorry if i left it off. So if i could understand it correctly, once the GTS was installed, the computer should have "sensed" it and disable the stock onboard/integrated video. since i run vista and it can check performance levels of the comp, the new ratings are doubled of the stock. ill go look at the BIOS to see more concrete data. i welcome any other things that i missed or need to know nething else. thanks again.
 
went to BIOS to check out the stuff, the comp switched from mobo onboard gfx graphics to PCI, even though the 8800 is PCI-e, does this make a diff? i just switched it to PCI-e. please comment.
 
just a heads up

not all mobos automatically completely disable the onboard graphics once you insert a seperate vga card. on my GF6100 board i had to set the onboard vga memory allocation to "auto" in the bios for it to dissable when using a discrete card, if i had it set at a manually selected memory size, it would never disable the onboard!

(caused me a fair amount of headaches when trying to install ubuntu, at first i feared both my spare 6600GTs where on the fritz)

so check the manual for your mobo to find out what you need to do to disable the onboard vga, also having it set at pci-e for your primary vga adapter is fine, it should automatically pick up the 8800
 
killster1 said:
well you have most retarded statement of the day... maybe you should work on English before insults! its not that massive of a performance gain like you say. i use 5 lcds on one pc 2xpcie cards and 1xonboard.. and it works just about same as with 1 pcie gfx card
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one mans "huge" is another mans "not that massive".

It depends how the integrated graphics memory subsystem is setup, but usually you can allocate how much memory you wish the onboard VGA to use. If your giving it a good chunk of your memory, then, once the VGA is installed that memory is freed up and may help alot in some apps and not at all in others. Its a highly subjective question.

Now stop stop calling each other names... n00bs :p

In the good ol' days you had to tell the mobo to look for a device in the AGP slot and, in the really old days, had to pop in a jumper to make it recognize a card. both bios and Nvidias own drivers are so good its really hard to go wrong. If you start installing the offboard VGA drivers it will prompt you to uninstall the onboard ones first.

and regarding the differances between the integrated and the 8800: a fair bit more then just graphics workload can be offloaded onto the Video card. I have found that the 8800 is capible of really high gamma and can get you some really nice colors where onboard tends to not be enough for me even at the highest setting, though, that was more then likly just a driver problem. Also on H.264 decoding (aka Mpeg 4 and (forget format name)/aka 1080p decoding) your 8800 will handle much of the decompression therefore reducing the load on your CPU drastically. The HD2600s and 8600s offer almost full H.264 decoding. And yes, of course, in game, you'll be capible of drastically better looking games, weather it be through AA and AF on older games or just the abillity to run modern games at a tolerable FPS.
 
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