Graphics related question here for an Onboard graphics mobo, if I put a X1 PCI-express card into the X16 slot will it disable the onboard VGA automatically or not? Reason is tht its the only free slot for a board I want to buy and I want to put a non VGA card in the slot and still use the onboard VGA.
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X1 Disables Onboard VGA or not ???
- Thread starter Methanoid
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Do you know from experience or what? I'd rather not make an expensive gamble
You're thinking of 16x PCI-E slots as if they were AGP ones.
Graphics cards use 16x slots, but they're not graphics slots. There are 4x slots that have a notch cut out at the end to allow graphics cards to be used in them.
Basically it's just another PCI-E slot with different bandwith available to it.
It just so happens that the majoirty of PCI-E 16 devices are graphics cards.
I think in the future, there will be motherboards that only have 16x size slots.
The limiting factor now would be the lanes that chipsets currently offer.
Graphics cards use 16x slots, but they're not graphics slots. There are 4x slots that have a notch cut out at the end to allow graphics cards to be used in them.
Basically it's just another PCI-E slot with different bandwith available to it.
It just so happens that the majoirty of PCI-E 16 devices are graphics cards.
I think in the future, there will be motherboards that only have 16x size slots.
The limiting factor now would be the lanes that chipsets currently offer.