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Question about running monitor off motherboard and using graphic card just for Daz

5200north5200north Posts: 249
in Daz Studio Discussion

I'm figuring out what I need (and what I can afford) for a new PC build and I've read here about running the monitor off the oboard graphics or another card and leaving the better card just for Daz. 

 

My question is would the monitor's display look bad? When I'm not running Daz Studio can the PC take advantage of the better card? 

Also for my budget I'm looking at the new GeoForcw 1070

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,601

    Onboard graphics should be fine for running the display.  NVIDIA COntrol Panel lets you assign which applications use which GPU.

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500
    edited May 2016

    I do exactly that. I have a GTX 970 GPU but I run the monitor from the motherboard. I have an Intel Skylake i7 which has a pretty decent built-in GPU and it drives my 25inch Dell display just fine via an HDMI connector on the motherboard.

    Just one thing I had to figure out - the Bios did not come configured to allow both so I had to change the bios setting similar to the instructions on this site:

    http://us.informatiweb.net/tutorials/it/9-bios/230--force-the-use-of-the-internal-graphics-card-onboard-vga.html

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  • nicsttnicstt Posts: 11,715

    It's doable; I bought a cheap 2GB card to run it, now I use a 970 for graphics and a 980ti for rendering. And next time I upgrade, will likely have the 980ti for graphics with whatever is better for rendering.

    It is a good way of starting the upgrade path, as one gets the cash. :)

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