H4000

[Buttkicker]

Hi
I have been out of the upgrading loop for a Looooong time
and would like to know I am in the process of upgrading my troublesome P4 which is now 5 years old
a couple of years ago I bought a Nvidia 760GTX card which I guess by todays standards is antique (but it does what I want)

I am going to buy the Intel I5 ivybridge cpu which has on board graphics in the shape of HD4000 which according to all the reviews I have read pretty much beats hands down most Graphic Cards under £75

so I intend to use the HD4000 and put my aging Nividia in my daughters PC

my question is that the new motherboards also have inbuilt Graphics
which one would be the default one the
am thinking if I have HD4000 on the CPU and an HD3000 on the Mobo which is supposedly pretty poor how do I set it so that the higher spec one gets used ????

must add that I dont play any games at all but do quite a bit of photoshop with my pictures so I would think the HD4000 would be ideal for me

not understanding all this crossfire and SLI could I run both the nvidia along with the onboard graphics for improved performance or would my old Nividia kill the performance of both

thanks
Chris

 

[MORE SPEED]

The new Z77 motherboards do not have a graphics core built in, but rather can utilize the built in iGPU on the processor. Therefore, if you purchase a Z77/H77 motherboard and use no dedicated GPU it will use the processors HD4000 iGPU.

With a Z77 board, if you add a dedicated graphics card, such as your 260GTX (I presume), then you can use Lucid MVP which combines both the HD4000 iGPU in the processor and the dedicated nvidia GPU.