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[SOLVED] Using iGPU for primary display with a graphics card present

Dec 13, 2020
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So i've recently bought this brand new GTX 1650 to replace a dead gpu.It has 3 ports (DVI-D,HDMI and displayport),but my monitor is one of those old ones that use VGA.
I thought that i could just use one of those cheap DVI-D to VGA adapters to plug my monitor in but that does not work since VGA is analog only while DVI-D goes only digital.
What i've done to try and bypass that until i buy a converter is to change the primary display over on the BIOS to iGPU and plug the monitor directly to the MOBO VGA port,all that with the graphics card present,that so i can get any output over the screen.
Is there any harm on doing that?
 
Solution
The only harm I can think of is slightly less than ideal performance due to extra latency of pumping dGPU output over PCIe through the IGP to get to the VGA output.