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computer wih no onboard graphics or gpu?

kaidemarco

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Hey guys, i recently was given a dell vostro 200 from my aunt who did not want it anymore. I put a new hard drive in it and installed win10. I used driver booster to install the drivers, and then tried booting up garrys mod just for the heck of it and it ran extremely horrible... like a couple frames per second with all settings as low as possible. So i figured i had to install a graphics driver, but i don't know what to install. So it a dell vostro 200 with an intel core 2 duo e7200. As far as I can tell that chip does not have onboard graphics, and there in no gpu. So how is it running at all? Can anyone find out if maybe I'm wrong and this chip does have onboard graphics, or does the mobo have a graphics chip built in? I'm confused.
(note: i'm not expecting to run any games at all on this system, i'm just wondering what is being used as the gpu. I'm very confused about this)
 
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It probably has the graphics chip integrated on the motherboard. It's likely some Intel integrated graphics accelerator.

This link has all graphics drivers available for the Vostro 200, with the Intel G31/G33/Q33/Q35 Graphics Controller, v.6.14.10.4820, A00 being the only one that isn't a dedicated graphics card.

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/vostro-200/drivers

Look under "Video".

*You might have to copy/paste the link because when I click on it it goes to some placeholder.com site.
It probably has the graphics chip integrated on the motherboard. It's likely some Intel integrated graphics accelerator.

This link has all graphics drivers available for the Vostro 200, with the Intel G31/G33/Q33/Q35 Graphics Controller, v.6.14.10.4820, A00 being the only one that isn't a dedicated graphics card.

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/vostro-200/drivers

Look under "Video".

*You might have to copy/paste the link because when I click on it it goes to some placeholder.com site.
 
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