Gaming Build/Upgrade

[awongsurawat]

In my experience WEI is pretty accurate. It's just not terribly meaningful when it comes to determining gaming performance.

This is very true. I did get better scores with WEI with the HD4670 Card than the built-in Intel 4400 graphics. If I wasn't gaming, I wouldn't see anything wrong with the built-in graphics. One thing that I saw as strange, is after I installed the HD4670 card, in the Device Manager both video cards show up under Display adapters.

I will eventually upgrade to an R7 265 card, but for now I will run the HD4670...and I may swap that out with the 9800GT just to see if there is any performance difference.

What I also found as odd was that I could not run 3DMark 11 with the HD4670 card...but I have not had any time to do research on the error, it is possible that is because the HD4670 card does not support DirectX over 9??

I would eventually like to upgrade my case and power supply...but not really needed. I have to sell my old cases and power supplies first.

 

[lehtv]

If I wasn't gaming, I wouldn't see anything wrong with the built-in graphics. One thing that I saw as strange, is after I installed the HD4670 card, in the Device Manager both video cards show up under Display adapters.

The HD4400 isn't a video card, you probably mean GPU. In any case, if you haven't disabled the integrated GPU in BIOS, it'll show up in Display adapters and can be used alongside the discrete graphics card, i.e you can connect a secondary monitor into your motherboard

I may swap that out with the 9800GT just to see if there is any performance difference.

9800 GT should actually be a bit faster: http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-HD-4670-vs-GeForce-GT-9800

What I also found as odd was that I could not run 3DMark 11 with the HD4670 card...but I have not had any time to do research on the error, it is possible that is because the HD4670 card does not support DirectX over 9??

Yes, that's correct.. DX11 support was introduced with the HD 5000 series

 

[awongsurawat]

The HD4400 isn't a video card, you probably mean GPU. In any case, if you haven't disabled the integrated GPU in BIOS, it'll show up in Display adapters and can be used alongside the discrete graphics card, i.e you can connect a secondary monitor into your motherboard

So I can run three monitors?

9800 GT should actually be a bit faster: http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-HD-4670-vs-GeForce-GT-9800

I may have to try this card, I figured it performed better.

Yes, that's correct.. DX11 support was introduced with the HD 5000 series

So I have to run older 3D Mark.

 

[mfenn]

So I can run three monitors?

The motherboard itself can actually handle 3 monitors (two digital + one analog) plus whatever your GPU can do. You could get quite the display wall going if you wanted to.

 

[awongsurawat]

The motherboard itself can actually handle 3 monitors (two digital + one analog) plus whatever your GPU can do. You could get quite the display wall going if you wanted to.

So it looks like one DVI, one HDMI, one VGA...then at least two on the video card.

I was thinking two displays at most, and it seems like most less expensive displays even though they have DVI and VGA ports, only come with VGA cables...

 

[mfenn]

That's not a problem, you can pick up DVI cables for cheap at Monoprice.

 

[MongGrel]

Yeah, I love Monoprice for cables.