N-Force & Integrated Graphics??

[cyberized]

From what I've read so far about this new Mobo - sounds GREAT even though I have always hated integrated Video and Sound; the Sound chip integrated here appears to to be "Top o' da Line"; and Graphics equivalent to or little better than GeForce 2 MX. I am wondering, haven't seen anything yet, will a person be able to disable onboard Video and install a higher end card (does it even have an AGP Slot)?

TKS

 

[Coligeon]

Yeah, I would surely think so. One thing bad about those motherboards is that you can't get one "without" the integrated video if you don't want it. Not in these first versions I guess anyway. Nforce looks to be good though, memory bandwidth, etc. Should be intersting. Oh yeah, Over at Viahardware.com and I think they had some benchmark or something relating to it, for an Msi motherobard that is on the way.

 

[Rand]

Yes they can be equipped with an external AGP slot and you can disable the onboard graphics to use a separate video card.

 

[kgraeme]

Some previews:

inquest

anandtech
"The IGP does also support an external AGP 4X slot, so those of you not interested in using the integrated graphics can just drop in another video card which will automatically disable the integrated video. Of course NVIDIA would like you to upgrade to a GeForce3, which does have some added benefit from a driver perspective, as we'll talk about in a bit."

Tom's Hardware Page

 

[salman327]

The integrated graphics automatically disables itself once you slip in a graphics card. I saw a preview at extremetech that showed that by dropping in an external graphics card, the system overall performed better (Higher memory scores, etc...), not just a graphics acceleration