Onboard Video Motherboards and performance

[Alisha]

Hello well i was wanting to buy a mobo for a E6300 the Asus P5LD2-VM to be precise, fits my budget bang on besides this one and a few other boards all having onboard video are the only ones available in india here for my price budget.

The board i mentioned above has Intel's GMA950 ,i would be going for the Nvidia 7600Gs GPU card so iam not going to use the onboard video chip.Now as we know the onboard GPU shares the memory with the RAM now my query is even though i will not be using the onboard gpu will it still be sharing the ram do we get to disable the gpu chip and get back the whole of ram back,and is there a lot of diffrence in performance as compared to non-onboard gpu boards.

Been on computers for a quite a while now (a Bsc(It) and a MCA rite now) but iam not that good at hardware hope you people can solve this query of mine.

 

[noxipoo]

it will disable the onboard if you put in a video card. shouldn't use system ram when it's disabled and should perform the same if there is another mobo with the exact same spec except the onboard video.

 

[NuAlphaMan]

yepper. You should be able to disable it in the BIOS and not have a problem with it using your system memory.

 

[noxipoo]

make sure that boards supports your CPU and one quick glance said it didn't

 

[renethx]

Only PCB R2.0(or higher) support Intel® Core?2 processor