Plenty of people game on whatever computer they bought retail whether it has a dedicated GPU or not. It's the performance of iGPs that determines what games a lot of people end up playing. One of the reasons behind the success of League of Legends and DotA 2.
Any documentation for that?
I would totally agree in laptops, but in desktops, I am not so sure. Pretty easy to just stick an 80.00, 6 pin free dgpu in pretty much any desktop, even OEM ones.
1866MHz DDR-3 is the highest the Intel H110 + Skylake supports.
H110 with DDR-4 only supports 2133MHz with higher latency than DDR-3 1866MHz at 9-9-10.
I wouldn't dare game on my i3's GT2 iGPU, I get it that AtenRa is trying to sell the APU's advantage in this thread.
Plenty of people game on whatever computer they bought retail whether it has a dedicated GPU or not.
Any documentation for that?
I would totally agree in laptops, but in desktops, I am not so sure. Pretty easy to just stick an 80.00, 6 pin free dgpu in pretty much any desktop, even OEM ones.
A couple months ago my mother-in-law wanted a WiFi card for her desktop computer for her birthday, specifically one with an antenna. At my wife's insistence, I got a PCIe add in card from Newegg and had it sent to her. Weeks later I hear grumblings and my wife wanted me to order her a new, USB Wifi dongle. Apparently her mom's computer doesn't have PCIe, only PCI so she can't use it, and was going to return it. I refused and after going back and forth telling her that if it was made in the last 10 years it will, and her insisting that is doesn't, I sent her a picture of a motherboard with a PCIe slot highlighted, told her to take the side off, and stick the card in there. The wife got an email a couple hours later saying it was working, thanks.
It is pretty easy to stick a GPU into a computer, but that doesn't mean it's something the majority of people are going to feel comfortable doing so. That goes doubly so when people have boxes that still have those "Warranty void if removed" stickers on them before you can even take the side off.
I know someone that splashed out big bucks for an i5 HP rig at BestBuy a while ago, and they play on the IGP. I tried to sell him a cheap GPU (or at least interest him in a GPU), but he didn't seem to care.
Some people are just clueless, I guess.
ROFL!
If he's happy, though, why knock it?
1866MHz DDR-3 is the highest the Intel H110 + Skylake supports.
H110 with DDR-4 only supports 2133MHz with higher latency than DDR-3 1866MHz at 9-9-10.
Any documentation for that?
I would totally agree in laptops, but in desktops, I am not so sure. Pretty easy to just stick an 80.00, 6 pin free dgpu in pretty much any desktop, even OEM ones.
FWIW already posted example of i3-6320 OC'd to 4.6GHz and DDR4 RAM to 2560MTS on H170 in CPU-z thread.
Yeah I know a few people like this, but games like DOTA 2 and Starcraft are playable on systems with iGPU, game devs that are interested in drawing the masses in popularity would make their game usable on a broad range of PC hardware. Blizzard did that with WoW when it was released as that game was still playable on a Pentium III or AMD Slot-A at the time.I know someone that splashed out big bucks for an i5 HP rig at BestBuy a while ago, and they play on the IGP. I tried to sell him a cheap GPU (or at least interest him in a GPU), but he didn't seem to care.
Some people are just clueless, I guess.
This. Most people are not enthusiasts, and they have "their computer guy" open the PC, if it ever needs to be opened.
Since the OP has already made his purchase, may I at least suggest he also keep his eyes open for a used Radeon R7 250 card? (Not 250X!)
It'll combine with the APU and give you a nice boost, especially if you pick it up used for very cheap... $20-40 or so.