Video Card Trouble?

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ThisIsTunakTunak

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Recently my video card "broke" and I have to send it back for a new one. I was wondering what the downsides are to using the monitor port on the motherboard without a video card.

(I got this picture off google just to point out the ports).

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Well the photo you have, that top port is not a video port. But yes, if your board has onboard video you can use that till you get our card back. The onboard video port will look like the VGA or DVI port thats like the ones on the lower cards.
 
You do have Video. It's just that you are now using the onboard Video connection
I think what you are asking is what is the addon Video card and what does it do

Users purchase addon Video cards to enhance the Video quality and to boost the performance both in the amount of Video memory and refresh rate. The addon Video card program also has many other Optimizations and display options, including (sometimes) TV and wizards and orientation and so on.

Without the addon Video card installed all these enhanced video optimizations (through hardware and software) will not work
What happens is you will be only back to the capabilities of the onboard Video only, generally being adequate for most display viewing and light gaming (note most quality games require higher Video memory at least)

Therefore, you may notice a decrease in the depth of Video and possibly some of your high end Video resource games will not work
Plus, due to the drop in memory (Video memory) You may notice a drop in computer performance slightly, as the onboard Video tries to use system resource (usually) to cater for your general viewing

Otherwise no real issue ;)

StrangleHold said:
Well the photo you have, that top port is not a video port.
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Oh I missed that.
 
Yeah, I wasn't sure if it could like... overheat or something. But I was told it was ok and all I needed to do is turn up my resolution which I had already done.
 
Turn up your resoluton? If anything you'd need to turn it down since it's a weaker card. And you shouldn't have any problems with it overheating. I mean the computer's made to run using that is there's no internal card. Just pull out the old card and switch ports.
 
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