integrated graphics v dedicated graphics card

dipsomaniac

think it has something to do with these setting but system keeps defaulting to this when i try to change. don't understand why current clock setting is 157mhz

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dipsomaniac

looks like it is memory clock settings that is responsible for low score. adjusted memory clock settings to 600 mhz and now have a 3.2 and 5.6 wei. don't know whether to push it any further or if wei is important

Spank

Won't effect the score, but have you disabled the on board gfx?

steve1980

You essentially purchased a card that's almost similar to what you already. Both are 512mb so it's not going to make any difference.

I purchased a 2GB graphics card on amazon for £32.00. My machine now flies.

dipsomaniac

Spank wrote: »

Won't effect the score, but have you disabled the on board gfx?

do i need to do that in the bios? at the moment can't see any benefit to this card and unless convinced otherwise will uninstall and revert back to integrated graphics

spakkker

In this chart your onboard is 165 and the card is ~300. this is a small difference if gaming but otherwise of no benefit.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php

Your motherboard will select the card unless told not to.
Unless a gamer graphics cards waste money,power and usually add noise

dipsomaniac

reverted back to integrated graphics. system more stable and better graphics. thanks to all who posted

GunJack

^^^ may be a stupid question, but you did plug the monitor into the Gfx card output, instead of the mobo output, didn't you ??? This is about the only situation I've seen where the addition of a gfx card made anything worse......either that or maybe there's a mobo fault around your card slots....

dipsomaniac

GunJack wrote: »

^^^ may be a stupid question, but you did plug the monitor into the Gfx card output, instead of the mobo output, didn't you ??? This is about the only situation I've seen where the addition of a gfx card made anything worse......either that or maybe there's a mobo fault around your card slots....

yes, connected to card. don't know how much weight the wei carries but was shocked to see such a drop in the graphics performance score. i could probably get a better score by fully overclocking but the system was becoming less stable with at least one crash today. that was the final straw. don't know if the mobo has a fault but would say if anything it is more likely that the card has a fault