Possible To Use Onboard and PCI-E At Once?

[lettuce]

With mobos that have onboard gfx, is it possible to use the onboard gfx aswell as a card thats in the PCI-E slot? Im after a 3 display setup

 

[lettuce]

Any know?

 

[Duke]

I think some boards allow it, others will just disable the onboard no matter what. Best to search for your board online / check the manual.

 

[lettuce]

Thanks for the reply, I haven't actually purchase said mobo yet, I just want 1 that allows both onboard and pci-e card to work at the same time. I was looking at an i3 system, maybe 1 of the gigabyte mobos, do they have online maunals on there webpage?

 

[Duke]

Yep if you go to http://www.giga-byte.co.uk/Support/Motherboard/Manual_List.aspx it will be there

 

[Andrew G]

Like said above and in most decent mobo BIOS should have an option for [INT display "PCI/PCI-Ex/onboard"] (initial display)

 

[lettuce]

Yep if you go to http://www.giga-byte.co.uk/Support/Motherboard/Manual_List.aspx it will be there

Cool, yeah the mobo im after supports onbaord aswell as pci-e

"Onboard VGA
Enables or disables the onboard graphics function.
Enable
If No Ext PEG. Activates the onboard graphics only if no PCI Express graphics card is installed. (Default)
Always Enable
Always activates the onboard graphics, whether or not a PCI Express graphics card is installed. If you wish to set up a dual view configuration, set this item to Always Enable."