Motherboards with integrated video and therefore guided by the thrifty buyer, and such a fee, despite the fact that it does not have to buy a graphics card that is not only expensive, but even cheaper than standard motherboards without integrated video.
The main purpose of this article - to find out why all amiss integrated video chip, but why not amiss. It is also interesting to know the target audience, which assembles computers with integrated graphics. First, you must understand that such an approach is absolutely contraindicated for gamers.Contraindicated not even because there are no powerful integrated solutions for the 3D-graphics, but because gamers - it is a separate niche of consumers, which feeds dozens of companies. And spoil the market releasing any sort was an alternative to an external video card no one will (and if they will, he will not).
Thus, the purpose of these computers is primarily a budget office machines, computers running a supporting role (eg the same server or computer to record video surveillance - to monitor them even do not always buy).
Suitable for such use absolutely any schedule, since All that is required of it - is on display on the monitor. Much more interesting is the case with the area where the computing power of integrated video cards are still required. There are two categories ..
Housewives (or more precisely who you want, but not a gamer)
It turns out housewives, and the same office staff is not opposed to playing casual games (casual games), of which a great many.Where once they were in the majority of two-dimensional, but now they are becoming more and more three-dimensional and even require the support of certain graphic instructions that run the game without fail. This is usually the main reason for dissatisfaction with the owners of the integrated graphics that love to play casual games. Regarding the power requirements of such games is very modest, but if, for example, the video card does not support hardware T & L (very often even the powerful built-in graphics solutions and its just not supported and implemented by the CPU) - the game will be refused to run. That sometimes happens, that your built-in video chip supports universal shaders and DX10 - but because of such trifles as the T & L you can not play a game released years ago.
PSEVDOGEYMERY (that is, those same gamers, but no money for a video card)
Here everything is serious! Video card built in, but I'd like shooters, and brodilok gonyalok. The teeth are itching to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Need for Speed XXX, which at one time demanded a high-end discrete graphics cards, for example.Here sharks 3D-graphics give these "gamers" hope (not because of pity, of course, but from a desire to profit even in the poorest three-game fans). We do the following: take the chip cards a certain generation (eg GeForce 8 ***) and is cut so that under no circumstances did not create their own competitive video cards of the same generation. But this, of course, the chip will have a complete set of instructions and keep all the graphics technology that supports its older brothers in this family. That is, for example, the flagship of the eighth series GeForce 8800GTX has 128 shader execution units, popular in its time because of the cost, but rather weak GeForce 8600GT has only 32 (ie, quarter). But embedded chip called the GeForce 8100/8200 has been only 16 shader units. (About where and how many more of these blocks can be seen the table).
The popular, but outdated benchmark 3D Mark 2001, this schedule is gaining more than 9,000 points. But catches the eye is too weak geometry and texturing ability.
Even so, it, albeit at a stretch, you can call the game. For this native game architecture. But, say, Intel GMA3100 - game does not call. Does the same, and ATI / AMD. Taken of the Radeon HD graphics card and by their quartering or more of any division, "creating" an integrated solution. For example, in the flagship Radeon HD 3870 has 320 shaders, and in the integrated Radeon HD 3200 to only 40 pieces. Performance, in general, then, will be proportional (that is, as is the case with the nVidia GeForce 8100/8200 - is the eighth part of a top card in this series). Given that the flagship often have a large safety margin, even these scraps may be enough unpretentious and / or a poor gamer.
Summing up we can recommend the following - select the integrated graphics of the well-known manufacturers of external graphics cards such as ATI-AMD or Nvidia, but not VIA or Intel - better let the past go about their processors. Well-generation graphics cards, scrap that you want to see in your motherboard in the form of an integrated solution, choose, of course, newer.Stars from the sky you will not catch, but to play in the game even at the level of a stalker can quite decent settings. And absolutely finally, do not forget another fact - the integrated GPUs are usually not have their own memory, but borrow it from the system.Therefore, in the first place in the system it gets to 128-256-512 or how many megabytes smaller, and secondly it is slow compared to the onboard memory, discrete graphics cards. So make sure that that memory, which is operating at high frequencies and, preferably, in Dual Channel mode. Guided by these rules, you can easily catch up on past performance card worth $ 30-50 buying a motherboard, which itself is entirely about the same and costs.
And, of course, will drive it.
