- Dec 24, 2021
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Hello everyone,
I recently got my hands on a decent prebuilt PC that lacks a dedicated graphics card however, possibly because the guy that sold me the PC only cared about the card to begin with. In addition to that the only hdmi port on the motherboard seems to have been removed by the manufacturer, nevertheless the integrated graphics card of the cpu works just fine, I tried it, using my graphics cards display ports. Since I want to give this PC to a friend and neither he nor I intend on spending much money to buy a dedicated graphics card and just end up using the integrated graphics card of the cpu, I started looking for alternatives to buying a whole new gpu, without success.
I know that he could simply use a very "cheap" graphics card, but I find it hard to believe, that there is no other way of getting a port to output video, like a pcie card that serves the SOLE purpose of allowing an integrated gpu to give a video output, since the processing power to do that should be provided by the later, right? Any advice or recommendations on what we could do, to spend "as little as possible" to make the PC usable? The video output doesn't need to be high quality, 1080p 60 fps would be ideal but 720 p 30 fps could probably do just as fine.
Edit: Even though it wasn't easy, I managed to remove the cover for the HDMI port and can use it without issues, which resolves the initial problem, regarding my search for alternatives to graphics cards and the motherboard video output, the only somewhat useful idea I got, is to use some usb to hdmi / display port adapter or similar usb video transfer methods. I will leave this note here, in case someone stumbles across this and is less fortunate.
I recently got my hands on a decent prebuilt PC that lacks a dedicated graphics card however, possibly because the guy that sold me the PC only cared about the card to begin with. In addition to that the only hdmi port on the motherboard seems to have been removed by the manufacturer, nevertheless the integrated graphics card of the cpu works just fine, I tried it, using my graphics cards display ports. Since I want to give this PC to a friend and neither he nor I intend on spending much money to buy a dedicated graphics card and just end up using the integrated graphics card of the cpu, I started looking for alternatives to buying a whole new gpu, without success.
I know that he could simply use a very "cheap" graphics card, but I find it hard to believe, that there is no other way of getting a port to output video, like a pcie card that serves the SOLE purpose of allowing an integrated gpu to give a video output, since the processing power to do that should be provided by the later, right? Any advice or recommendations on what we could do, to spend "as little as possible" to make the PC usable? The video output doesn't need to be high quality, 1080p 60 fps would be ideal but 720 p 30 fps could probably do just as fine.
Edit: Even though it wasn't easy, I managed to remove the cover for the HDMI port and can use it without issues, which resolves the initial problem, regarding my search for alternatives to graphics cards and the motherboard video output, the only somewhat useful idea I got, is to use some usb to hdmi / display port adapter or similar usb video transfer methods. I will leave this note here, in case someone stumbles across this and is less fortunate.
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