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PC hardware question

Highlord

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Okay, my PC is a value box I got last Christmas after my old one bit the dust. Not paying attention when I got it from Newegg, I didn't realize it used an integrated GPU, an AMD Ryzen 5 5600G.

Now, the two games I play the most are really pushing it, and I'm leery of overclocking. There is a slot on the motherboard for a full-size graphics card, though. If I buy a new card and install it, can I override the integrated GPU to use the new card, and if so, how?
 
The short answer to you question is: yes, you can.

The long(er) answer is that, basically, the fancy graphics come out of where ever you plug in the video cable. If you do buy and install a PCIe card it will be used over the integrated graphics as long as you plug the monitor into it. There is something to worry about, however. If you do get a dedicated GPU then you'll need to make sure that your power supply has the correct cable. Specifically the 6/8-Pin PCI Express Cable. If it does, you're good, just plug it in. If it doesn't you're stuffed because you can't have any decent GPU anyway.

You say that the old PC bit the dust and that the new one doesn't have a GPU. It should be possible for you to just swap out the old GPU from your old PC, assuming it had one.
 
Zoroastrian said:
The short answer to you question is: yes, you can.

The long(er) answer is that, basically, the fancy graphics come out of where ever you plug in the video cable. If you do buy and install a PCIe card it will be used over the integrated graphics as long as you plug the monitor into it. There is something to worry about, however. If you do get a dedicated GPU then you'll need to make sure that your power supply has the correct cable. Specifically the 6/8-Pin PCI Express Cable. If it does, you're good, just plug it in. If it doesn't you're stuffed because you can't have any decent GPU anyway.

You say that the old PC bit the dust and that the new one doesn't have a GPU. It should be possible for you to just swap out the old GPU from your old PC, assuming it had one.
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Went and bought a bargain AMD card. For a moment I thought I'd fucked myself, since I couldn't find the PCI/E cable, but looking around beneath the stupid shelf over the bottom quarter of the PC case, I found the cables bundled up and stuffed in a little recess. So, now I have much better performance and crisper graphics in the game I play.

Yeah, it's just a Radeon 6500XT, but it's a 500$ PC anyway. I neither need nor want it to be some top end rig.
 
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