Is a Video Card necessary?

[Steve Rimar]

I tend to use my PC mainly for photo editing and some video editing. I do use my current PC to output HDMI video to a TV.

Are the newer Motherboards good enough to just use onboard Video without the use of a card?

I intend on using a Intel Core i5-4690K Processor with a ASUS Z97-A ATX DDR3 2600 LGA 1150 Motherboard.

 

[.vodka]

Haswell's onboard graphics should be good enough for what you do.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Depends on whether you want to help AMD or NVidia stay in business.

But seriously, unless you are gaming, or are using a professional-level application that is GPU-accelerated, then onboard video should be fine.

 

[Hitman928]

Professional graphics cards can have higher color accuracy if that is needed for your photo editing, but otherwise the integrated graphics are fine for any non-gaming uses.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Interesting that you should bring that up. I'm using a pair of Westinghouse 24" LED LCD HDTVs as monitors, and on the one that I have my 7950 connected via HDMI, in CCC, it shows that the display is using 10bpc (10 bits per color channel) mode.

It was interesting to me that the consumer-level video card, and HDTV, supported that.

 

[tweakboy]

Very nice VirtualLarry ...