Need help with intergreted graphics and graphics card

[Tinothy]

So i have a dell inspiron 3656 and it has a processor with intergreted graphics. Everytime i play games my processor is at 100 percent and my graphics card is at like 20 percent. I do not know how to enable my graphics card which is the amd r9 360. I have my monitor cord pliged into the middle-bottom port which i think is the motherboard. There is a top one which i am pretty sure is the graphics card but when i plugged my cord in a screen came up saying it is disabled. Please help as my graphics card would boost my pc perfomance.

 

[johnb35]

You need to plug the video cable into the port for the graphics card, not the port on the motherboard itself. Motherboard port is probably up and down while the port on the video card is sideways.

 

[Tinothy]

You need to plug the video cable into the port for the graphics card, not the port on the motherboard itself. Motherboard port is probably up and down while the port on the video card is sideways.

Yes and i did plug it in for the graphics csrd but this screen pops up.

 

[beers]

What specific game is giving you that behavior?

The diagram is correct as you need to connect the display to the expansion slot part (the video card). The ports combined next to the other ports like USB are the onboard ones, which you shouldn't be using.

 

[Tinothy]

What specific game is giving you that behavior?

The diagram is correct as you need to connect the display to the expansion slot part (the video card). The ports combined next to the other ports like USB are the onboard ones, which you shouldn't be using.

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[Tinothy]

What specific game is giving you that behavior?

The diagram is correct as you need to connect the display to the expansion slot part (the video card). The ports combined next to the other ports like USB are the onboard ones, which you shouldn't be using.

This is the port the graphics card and to the right is the screen that came up. The middle port is what i had it in before which is the motherboard

 

[johnb35]

You need to plug into the port on the bottom that is circled in red. That would be your video card. The port up top is the integrated video through the cpu.

 

[Tinothy]

You need to plug into the port on the bottom that is circled in red. That would be your video card. The port up top is the integrated video through the cpu.

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Thatis what i had it set on. But my processor is always doing all the work while my graphics card is not even half assing itself. So what could be causing this?

 

[johnb35]

Crappy cpu for one. The pc you have isn't for gaming at all most good cpu's are twice that speed. Not much you can do until you get a new pc.

 

[Tinothy]

Crappy cpu for one. The pc you have isn't for gaming at all most good cpu's are twice that speed. Not much you can do until you get a new pc.

How much would it cost to upgrade and which components would i have to upgrade? Second choice is doing a 500 dollar budget build but i would like to know if upgrading some components would be cheaper.

 

[johnb35]

Told you in your other thread that you would need a whole new computer. Case, motherboard, cpu, memory, psu. I wouldn't go prebuilt at all unless it was like a cyberpower pc or something similar designed for gaming. I'm sure someone can post links for you either through pcpartpicker or an actual gaming pc on newegg or whatever.

 

[Tinothy]

Told you in your other thread that you would need a whole new computer. Case, motherboard, cpu, memory, psu. I wouldn't go prebuilt at all unless it was like a cyberpower pc or something similar designed for gaming. I'm sure someone can post links for you either through pcpartpicker or an actual gaming pc on newegg or whatever.

500 hundred dollar budget build it is.