The reason I ask is, by the time I have to upgrade my motherboard, I have to upgrade the video card too. Does an integrated card put a greater drain on the CPU or memory?|||There are really two glaring drawbacks that I can think of to having an integrated video "card":
1. It shares the memory with the CPU. This means the CPU effectively has less memory to work with when the integrated graphics "card" is running.
2. Integrated graphics solutions are always far less powerful than an expansion card.
If you play a lot of the newer PC games or watch a lot of HD-quality videos with your computer I would recommend getting an actual card. Also, you don't have to spend $300-$400 on a video card. Even a $100 card would serve you much better than an integrated solution.|||There are a few drawbacks:
1) Upgrade-ability (yea i just made that word up lol) its generally a pain in the @ss to upgrade your graphics with integrated. If you get a new card down the road you have to disable the integrated in the bios and whatnot. With a pci-e card you just swap them out (and change drivers).
2) An expansion (pci-e) card has its own memory, which is independent of the system memory. Integrated graphics use the system memory.
3) Generally integrated graphics aren't that awesome, especially for gaming. They may have trouble running higher end/newer games.
4) If you buy a separate graphics card you know exactly what you get. I've noticed that most descriptions of onboard graphics don't go past "geforce XXXX integrated graphics"
I recommend getting separate graphics EVERY time. (i know i do when i build my PC's)|||You answered your own question. Why not just add a pci card?
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