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by Steve Cirone on Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:05 am
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I see motherboards out there with Display Ports built in, yet the video cards also have display ports.  Why the duplication?  Which is best to connect a NEC 30"?
 
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by E.J. Peiker on Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:21 am
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If you have a discrete video card use that. The motherboard video these days is very good compared to in the past but it isn't in the same league in general as a good discrete video card. The video card generally has a much faster GPU with many cores and a lot more memory. In general motherboard video uses system memory and is a more general video than the highly specialized and fast video of good video boards.

That said, if you are using a cheaper or older video card with a state of the art motherboard, the on-board video might actually rival the card.
 

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