Discover The Pros And Cons Of Your Built-in Cards In Building Computer
Understanding what are the pros and cons of your built-in (on-board) card on your motherboard is important to build own computer
. It will make you wiser in choosing your own components that satisfies your own needs. Built-in cards (On-board) meaning integrating the sound, LAN, modem, video card and other peripheral components into your motherboard.
During the early years, motherboard uses many connections and add-in cards. This causes too much confusion for the computer builder. Nowadays its not a problem anymore because most of the add-in cards are now integrated in the motherboard.
Therefore, the main pros for built-in cards is that it will makes a lot easier for you to build your computer because of lesser connections. It can also save you money by not buying another card for your system.
Lets talk about the cons of the built-in cards. Built-in cards are not repairable and upgradable because it is fixed. But this is not a problem you dont need to buy the whole board if anyone of the built-in card becomes defective. Just disable it on the CMOS settings and replace the defective built-in with an add-in card. The same thing you do when you are planning to upgrade any of your on-board cards in the future. Some latest motherboard will automatically disable the on-board card when you install your new add-in card.
In conclusion to this, if youre computer application is only for a simple office work I suggest you buy a motherboard that supports many built-in cards. However, if your application is more on graphics buy a separate video card most likely a PCI-E. On-board video card affects your graphics performance dramatically because it took some part of your main memory and shares on your data bus. Therefore, it produces a slower graphics output.
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