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Please Explain the i5 Graphics

Wingo101

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Hi,


Can anyone explain to me how the i5 built in Graphics works. Does that mean I don't need a motherboard with onboard graphics?

Where would i plug in the monitor if the motherboard doesn't have onboard graphics?
 
you've half got it.

the motherboards have display outputs (VGA, DVI etc) that connect to the video card on the CPU, as opposed to a video card on the motherboard.


If you used a regular CPU on one of those boards (H55), you'd get no video - and if you used one of those CPU's on a motherboard without it(P55), you'd have no way to connect a monitor.

edit: gumpty named the chipsets, so i added that in to help clarify
 
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pretty much what he said. the video card is inside certain i5 CPU's and not on the motherboard. the motherboard would need to support video outputs from the oncpu video card.
 
What Mussels said ^^^

To use the integrated graphics of a Core i3 or i5 processor you would need a Socket 1156 motherboard with the H55 or Q57 chipset (not P55 - they don't have the HDMI or DVI outputs).

That being said, I think you can still use those processors on P55 motherboards but you would need a graphics card with it.
 
Thanks for the inputs. This clarifies it for me :)
 
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