can someone explain please.

[hlxbravo]

I bought a Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 board and 2500k SB, not got them up and running yet as I am waiting on my new PSU, today hopefully, anyway, if my memory serves me correctly, the board has a HDMI on it. My question is why, as surely nowadays everybody uses standalone GPU's...what am I missing here, as i am about to connect my system to my TV when it arrives, for secondary use only, like when theres no one else at home etc. Manufacturers aren't going to add something that 95% of users would never use so I am obviously missing something. Do any of you have setups where you utilise this onboard port and if so, what for, advantages etc.

Also, while I am on, the Sandy....what's the HD 3000 onboard graphic about, does it improve graphical quality, as I would have thought that this would be down to the GPU.

Sorry for the dumb questions but its been about 3yrs since I bought a new setup and times certainly do move fast in this field.

 

[stulid]

Not everyone uses their PC for gaming and so dont need a seperate graphics card, so the onboard HD3000/HD2000 etc core is all they need.

The motherboard then needs some way of sending this to a display device so needs a DVI/HDMI etc connector.

For a Z68 motherboard to support Lucid Virtu+Quicksync it needs to have display outputs, some Gigabyte Z68 boards don't have any outputs and so don't support Lucid+Quickync.

The HD3000 is pants and is not upto the task of 3D gaming, anything else such as Internet browsing etc its perfectly adequate.

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