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AMD APUs built in graphics....

JoshWing

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I have a AMDs A8-6600k on a Asrock FM2A75 Pro4-M with 8gb of corsair 1866 ram. How do I use these so called built in graphics or does it just enhance the graphics card I put in. May seem pretty dum question but im I'm relatively new to this stuff this is my first built so any info will be more than gracefully received.
 
Some real old crap. Got about half a gb of ram unsure nothing special I got it out of a media center thats about 5 years old. Ill find out what it is in the morning and ill post it. This is the reason I want to know what this apus all about, if some graphics cards are going to work better with it id like to find out which.
 
As I understand it the A8-6600K has an inbuilt hd8570 graphics or you can choice to add an 6670/7750 to work in crossfire with the IGP or obviously slot in a much more powerful single GPU that performs better.
 
Smoogels said:
Plug your monitor into your motherboard and remove your GPU if you want to use the built in graphics.
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This. Don't need to do much. Remove your old gpu. Connect monitor directly to motherboard hdmi/dvi. In the BIOS, just confirm that the display is set to output via the motherboard outputs. Should be the case by default.
 
I have tried this using hdmi and running it to my 32" tv and it would only display in 800x600. I believe there to be a setting in the bios I seem to be missing any ideas what it might be called ?
 
Extra driver ? The pc has already detected the Apu. In device manager the processor comes up as "AMD A8-6600K With Radeon Graphics". But nothing in any of the other tabs about Radeon graphics :-(.
 
Yes, you have to install the AMD graphics driver.

You always have to install GPU drivers, the default ones are no just generic ones to get it working.
 
let us know how that goes; and once you got it up and running; let us know how it runs. I'm curious about it; might pick one up close to that for kids replacement PC until Kaveri comes out :D
 
Note taken about my PSU. Right all up and running had to uninstall it all and re install again. So Graphics wise pretty average. On my monitor its only going up to 1680 x 1050. doesn't seem to look or run any differently than before. Just had a look at Resource Monitor and It seems to be running at an average of 8%(Peaking @ 43%) where as before it would sit at about 5% (peaking @38%) with normal usage(Web browsing and bittorrent running). Unsure if its down to running graphics off it. Also just had a quick go on Sims 3 and all setting on as high as possible , runs fine. no lag, interruptions, everything looks clear. have no big games to try and run on it. Films look good aswell. tried to run VMware on it and it didnt like that at all hitting the roof when i booted Windows 8.1 where as before i could run Xp and Win 8.1 before hitting the roof. My ram through out all this has stayed about 1.72GB. All in all i cant complain about it being used for graphics. but for piece of mind and because of little change, I will invest in a graphics card. As a CPU i cant complain Ive had no problems Running with normal heat sink and no outrageous temp readings. Id recommend My APU it for the film enthusiast and maybe a light gamer so you don't have to by a graphics card. CPU 5/5, Graphics 3/5 APU 4/5 defiantly worth the £75 i paid for it
 
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