GPU v. onboard

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delvryboy

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This is pretty much going to be a web surfer for my back porch:

Athlon 64 x2 5600
MSI mATX
2gb PC6400
XP x86 Pro
Earthwatts 380w PSU
$20 Coolermaster case

The board has a NVIDIA GeForce 6100 chipset for video. I also have my old 2600XT laying around. The only games this thing will see is solitaire. Should I throw in the XT for the hell of it, or just use the onboard?
 
no reason to use the ati, it would just use aditional power. your fine with onboard.
 
I also vote for on-board graphics. Will you eventually want DVI output to connect to a big LCD or TV?
 
I doubt it. I'm a smoker, and have been banished to the enclosed back porch in our new house. I had some parts laying around and an extra 17" LCD, so I figured why not put something back there.

I have the box in my sig for everything else. I'll go onboard just for the efficiency. With the exception of the $15 case and the oem XP I had laying around, I'm at a whopping $160 for the build and it will run circles around the old Dell I was going to use.
 
cannondale06 said:
I wish they would put all the smokers in one place so I could just avoid them completely. :p
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Yes, Iraq or Afghanistan would be a nice place to round 'em up and drop 'em off to.

I jest! :D (Kind of. :p)

delvryboy, for a 17" LCD that is going to be low resolution, the mobo's D-SUB (VGA) output should be fine. If you were going to watch hi-def videos/movies on an LCD, then I would've said to get a graphics card.
 
Onboard is more than fine.

I pity PCs which are exposed to smokers, though :( had to work on a few of them in the past. Absolutely disgusting X_x
 
Blah, it's a hard habit to kick. I'm not a big smoker, a dozen or so a day. I also don't infringe on non-smokers. Smoking is my choice, as is the choice to not smoke; I'm a big supporter of IL's no smoking laws.
 
Speaking of smoking, your on-board GPU shouldn't do that if you don't push it too hard.

Sorry for the lame ... I was trying to tie in the 2 topics into the original thread. :p
 
Haha...this thing turned out to be smoking fast for web browsing and Office 2007. I had family over for the SB and it has been requested that I build 3 more. Really can't beat it for under $300 PnP w/ XP Pro.

I have never actually put a budget build together; I enjoyed it.
 
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