Thursday, December 19, 2019

Last Piece of the Puzzle

Embedded graphics, or what I understand about them, are related to the CPU that you install in the motherboard, and the T1700 socket, named LGA 1150, can house many different CPU variants, and the model I chose was the i5-4570 which is an Intel Core i5-4570, Haswell, Quad core processor with integrated Intel HD Graphics 4600.

There is a benchmark for those graphics and that can boil it all down to a single number, the average G3D mark, for the Intel HD Graphics 4600 that number is 715. I have a few spare graphics cards around, so I chose a compatible card that would run within the constraints of the power supply and the PCI express port, that card is the Quadro 2000 and it has a G3D mark of 1316.

The maximum TDP of the Quadro 2000 is 62 watts, so it can be powered by the PCI express slot and does not need any external connection, it may be considered as a step back by some as it is reported as Direct X 11.0 and not 12.0 like the Intel HD 4600 but it has it's own memory (does not share) and a higher core and memory clock.

So the last piece of the puzzle, after installation of the operating system, was the installation of the Quadro 2000 graphics card.


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