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INTEL VGA driver does it worth be installed as backup ?

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Processor Intel Core i7-4770 (4C/8T) Haswell
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This is more like a voting about Haswell or other INTEL cpu/gpu users thoughts.
I am using for a month GA-Z87X-UD5H along GTX 1060 6GB as primary VGA.
Since the first second I did disable Haswell on board GPU.
Now I do wonder if I should at least install the INTEL driver, at my Win7 operating system, just in case that I will need to use it, if my primary GPU this stops working for any reason.

The question it might sound as simple, but it is not.
If the INTEL driver this start loading system services even with the INTEL GPU inactive, this is bad news and waste of system resources.

So what do you do at your boxes? do you keep NVIDIA and INTEL drivers installed, even with BIOS disabled INTEL GPU?
 
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just in case that I will need to use it, if my primary GPU this stops working for any reason.

I used to have the intel igpu driver installed with new built, only because I didn't had a proper GPU yet, once my GPU arrived I installed the nvidia driver, no issues.
Later on I bought a M.2 SSD and installed a fresh copy of windows 10, since then I no longer have the intel igpu driver installed anymore.

No reason, you can still install the intel igpu driver when your 1060 died.
Just put the monitor cable in the motherboard.
 
I used to run with the iGPU on with my 8700k, tasked it to do video decoding in several apps, helped when the other card was busy with better things. Also made use of the quick sync features, which was handy.
But if you have no obvious use for it, then there is no reason to keep the drivers installed or have it enabled.
 
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