Video card or IGP? Anyone?

[Brutus04]

My wife has been using a laptop for photo-journeling for awhile now. (HP Turon X2); she runs Win7. I am looking at building a desktop with a good, decent video card. More concerned with power vice $. Just wondering what would be a good video card for this? No gaming; only Win7, photos, facebook, surfing etc. Also considering the onboard video option. Looking at i5 661 (IGP) or i5-750 (Video card). Anyone have any expertise with Intel IP or a good video card option? Thanks!

V/r, Brutus

 

[ther00kie16]

It's fine. Remember some display of the intel igp running 2 1080p videos at the same time with one video window moving and no lag. If you are concerned with power, get the dual core with igp. She's not really doing anything intensive unless we are talking about using gpu to accelerate work with 30+MP photos.

 

[lifeblood]

You monitor will be more important the video card. If she's doing any video editing or something like that she needs a monitor that accurately reproduces colors. My Hanns-g was cheap and is great for playing games but it's color reproduction sucks. But since I don 't do photo or video editing it really doesn't matter.