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No is the first thing I think of. The closest graphically intensive thing I can think of my parents doing on their computer is watching and exporting encoded media from their video camera.

 

My parents' computer recently broke and I am convincing them to not get a pre-built PC (which might or might not be a good idea) for price, upgradability and all that. I'll be fitting a Intel Pentium G3258 in there but I don't really know how to justify to them the lack of a GPU. Even though they know nothing about GPUs and just felt the need to have one because the pre-built ones do.

 

Yeah that's that and the title is kinda... inappropriate. Sorry about that. Just had to do it. Do you guys think a GPU would be needed?

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No is the first thing I think of. The closest graphically intensive thing I can think of my parents doing on their computer is watching and exporting encoded media from their video camera.

 

My parents' computer recently broke and I am convincing them to not get a pre-built PC (which might or might not be a good idea) for price, upgradability and all that. I'll be fitting a Intel Pentium G3258 in there but I don't really know how to justify to them the lack of a GPU. Even though they know nothing about GPUs and just felt the need to have one because the pre-built ones do.

 

Yeah that's that and the title is kinda... inappropriate. Sorry about that. Just had to do it. Do you guys think a GPU would be needed?

 

Nope. Integrated is fine.

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you will be required to have a GPU as the pentium has no iGP

Who told you this? Yes it does.

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A SSD would a wiser choice
and tell them that it is a new technology where they fuse the gpu and cpu together or something like that

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yup already admitted i was wrong :) (edited my post above)

 

I really shouldn't have to show you that you're wrong.

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OP if thats the case, no she doesnt 

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You will be perfectly fine using the pentium's integrated graphics.

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No is the first thing I think of. The closest graphically intensive thing I can think of my parents doing on their computer is watching and exporting encoded media from their video camera.

 

My parents' computer recently broke and I am convincing them to not get a pre-built PC (which might or might not be a good idea) for price, upgradability and all that. I'll be fitting a Intel Pentium G3258 in there but I don't really know how to justify to them the lack of a GPU. Even though they know nothing about GPUs and just felt the need to have one because the pre-built ones do.

 

Yeah that's that and the title is kinda... inappropriate. Sorry about that. Just had to do it. Do you guys think a GPU would be needed?

I'd get an A10 7850k or 7700k if I were you.  It's not the most powerful thing in the world, but the GPU WRECKS anything on intel's side.

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