I bought an MSI B450-A Pro for my build. The reason I bought this motherboard rather than the tomahawk was that it has a VGA output; retro I know.
I've always liked a square monitor as my secondary monitor. I just feel it's better for reading PDFS and such when I'm doing my uniwork. I often move stuff over to my square monitor for reading as I just find the size feels more close up/proportionate and I've never wished to change to 2 16:9 screens.
Only problem now is most GPUS dont support anything but digital outputs, and I always got away for years with a VGA - DVI-I adapter. Now it's all DVi, HDMI and DVI-D, I wasn't aware you could actually get converters to scale down HDMI/DVI to VGA.
These adapters are pretty cheap, but the fact I've chose a cheaper board for a specific reason to use to power my VGA monitor, is there anyway I can actually get it to run off my mobo when my graphics card will be powering my mainso I don't feel too gutted I've bought a cheaper board for no reason.
My CPU is a Ryzen 7 1800x, I've read mixed reports it can't process onboard graphics; is this true? Didn't realise the CPU had so much influence on onboard graphics.
Would a motherboard flash maybe support my request as it does say something about integrated graphics on my BIOS but doesn't let me chose anything
Many thanks
Jonathan
I've always liked a square monitor as my secondary monitor. I just feel it's better for reading PDFS and such when I'm doing my uniwork. I often move stuff over to my square monitor for reading as I just find the size feels more close up/proportionate and I've never wished to change to 2 16:9 screens.
Only problem now is most GPUS dont support anything but digital outputs, and I always got away for years with a VGA - DVI-I adapter. Now it's all DVi, HDMI and DVI-D, I wasn't aware you could actually get converters to scale down HDMI/DVI to VGA.
These adapters are pretty cheap, but the fact I've chose a cheaper board for a specific reason to use to power my VGA monitor, is there anyway I can actually get it to run off my mobo when my graphics card will be powering my mainso I don't feel too gutted I've bought a cheaper board for no reason.
My CPU is a Ryzen 7 1800x, I've read mixed reports it can't process onboard graphics; is this true? Didn't realise the CPU had so much influence on onboard graphics.
Would a motherboard flash maybe support my request as it does say something about integrated graphics on my BIOS but doesn't let me chose anything
Many thanks
Jonathan
