Question On board graphics heat sink

[Mcleese902]

The motherboard I have doesn't have a heat sink over the onboard graphics . I'm going to be using a graphics card . So will it matter ? Effect anything etc . Thanks as always

 

[Mastropomodoro]

don't worry, won't do any difference

 

[Mcleese902]

don't worry, won't do any difference

You 100% confident about that

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Unless you start to run into temperature issues, i wouldnt bother with it.
If your not using the onboard gpu there shouldnt be any issues.

 

[Mastropomodoro]

You 100% confident about that

Yup i'm pretty sure. Unless you have 0 airflow and cover the chip with dust, dirt and other nasty stuff. you should not have a problem with that. (But as I lerned, nothing with PCs is impossible...)
I say that also for "expeience": in my old school we had old and ugly computers, all the same model, were running with the onboard graphics. If those survived more than 10y in those conditions, I don't see why you should have problems...

 

[TJ Hooker]

Pretty hard for an inactive chip to overheat...

Out of curiosity, what motherboard?

 

[jsmithepa]

This thing has a separate video chip on the Mobo? What Mobo? What CPU?