could you survive without a graphics card?

[KSores]

so i sold my gtx 970 about a week ago so i could get more money than if i sold it after i got my gtx 1080

but i dont think i am going to survive without a graphics card. at first i thought i could but now.... all i can play is minecraft.....

you dont know how much you will miss it till you dont have it

so anyway could you survive without a graphics card?

[Enderman]

i could

i only play minecraft

i wouldnt be able to record anything through, medium settings and 30fps is horrendous

[KSores]

Just now, Enderman said:

i could

i only play minecraft

i wouldnt be able to record anything through, medium settings and 30fps is horrendous

with intel hd i get 50-60 fps while recording.....

minecraft is fun

but i need other games too

like ark

[ChrisCross]

4 minutes ago, KSores said:

 

my build took over a month. i didnt even have a desktop at all

[KSores]

1 minute ago, ChrisCross said:

my build took over a month. i didnt even have a desktop at all

how did you survive?

[Serath]

I should test this for fun, see which of my games run well on the iGPU, wonder if Rocket League would as Unreal Engine is not insanely heavy I imagine. Thing is though, I also have a gaming laptop so I guess I easily could because my laptop would take over as the main gaming rig.

[The_Denks]

6 minutes ago, KSores said:

so i sold my gtx 970 about a week ago so i could get more money than if i sold it after i got my gtx 1080

but i dont think i am going to survive without a graphics card. at first i thought i could but now.... all i can play is minecraft.....

you dont know how much you will miss it till you dont have it

so anyway could you survive without a graphics card?

I can play Rocket League at 22FPS w/ Intel® HD Graphics 4000 in a 3667u

Civ 5 82 FPS with same setup

Papers Please, locked at 60FPS

 

This is on a Lenovo 1 Carbon (laptop) btw

[Str_Mape]

I would have trouble, X99 and all.

That being said I have a 6950 in the closet somewhere and a 950 in my HTPC that i could grab if I had to sell my 980ti

[Lildirt]

Nothing I couldn't do without a massive amount of CPUs.

I'm kidding. I would struggle for leisure time. If I'm not programming or listening to music, then I'm probably playing a game. I don't play very many bleeding edge games, but I do like my maximum settings in MMOs. :)

For getting actual work done, no not really. I'd need to find another way to drive my three monitors, but that's not hard to do.

[ChrisCross]

8 minutes ago, KSores said:

how did you survive?

wii dude. you can kill time with mario.

[ivan134]

you can play tf2, csgo, LoL, blade and soul and some other mmos. there are quite a few things you can play on an iGPU.

[No]

Well technically we all can survive without a graphics card.

Even though I do spend 50 hours a day on witcher and csgo,

i kind of do have a life

so idk

[Bhav]

My PC wouldnt work without one. but I could survive via just using my tablet.

[Waqas409]

Twitch is the best way to survive in terms of video games when you are totally empty with personal computer. 

[HelplmChoking]

32 minutes ago, UberGamerKing said:

I can play Rocket League at 22FPS w/ Intel® HD Graphics 4000 in a 3667u

Civ 5 82 FPS with same setup

Papers Please, locked at 60FPS

 

This is on a Lenovo 1 Carbon (laptop) btw

82 FPS? Wow.. Last time I ran an iGPU (HD 5000 on a MacBook Pro retina) Civ 5 was awesome smooth, until about 10 turns in on a large map. Once I'd uncovered enough of the map, it dropped hard, to like 12 FPS.

 

For me? Not on my desktop.. Yay Xeon! So I'd have an expensive chunk of metal taking up a drawer. But I can use my Surface for most things (although good luck rendering on that..). I enjoy a bit of gaming here and there, but I could just as easily find something else to do (read a book maybe?) so that's not an issue.

[Imakuni]

42 minutes ago, KSores said:

so i sold my gtx 970 about a week ago so i could get more money than if i sold it after i got my gtx 1080

but i dont think i am going to survive without a graphics card. at first i thought i could but now.... all i can play is minecraft.....

you dont know how much you will miss it till you dont have it

so anyway could you survive without a graphics card?

Ez. I went through a similar situation: bought new CPU + mobo, only to be trolled by my case not fitting the GPU (PCIe positioning was diferent). As a result, I spent a while with no GPU.

 

Really, you can live. One way to go about it is watching other people play. Say, if get some old games you love and go look for speedruns / streams of that game. Another way to survive is with emulators. They require mostly CPU power, no care for GPU.

 

Trust me, it's only painful in the first 2 weeks. After that, you get used to it.

[Jaggsta]

That is why you always have backup graphics card that is decent enough to play games. GTX 1080 is going to cost you $699 dollars at launch they are only releasing the Founders Edition cards at launch to make the extra $100 dollars per card you won't see MSRP cards for months just FYI.

[incarnate]

2 hours ago, Jaggsta said:

That is why you always have backup graphics card that is decent enough to play games. GTX 1080 is going to cost you $699 dollars at launch they are only releasing the Founders Edition cards at launch to make the extra $100 dollars per card you won't see MSRP cards for months just FYI.

This, a hundred times this.

 

I have a r9 270 for this reason. My 970 will likely take over when I upgrade from it. I don't tend to upgrade every gen tho.

[Simon771]

No problem for me.

I'm only playing guild wars 2 ... Optimisation is that bad, that it only uses cpu power

[Nena Trinity]

No because my rigs has no integrated graphics!

[Malaki Titi]

I can play GTAV with the Intel onboard of my 4690K ocd to 4.5ghz.

Of course everything is set to low and it's running at a console killing 40 fps.

 

This is also why I never get rid of my old cards.  Last time I had a problem with my most powerful gpu, I tossed in one of my old ones (650ti) and I was able to hit 60fps of GTA5.  Everything was turned down but still playable.

 

That's why I'm an advocate to spend more money on the cpu rather than gpu.  Keep them balanced if possible.  If not, more money on the cpu is my tip.

[dreamhacking]

i have been using iGPU a month ago already ... still surviving

[Dash Lambda]

Heh, if my 980 ti stopped working, I wouldn't even have to open it up. I'd just have to move the display cables over to my 780.

I'd have to open it up to fix it, though...

 

I don't think I'd fare too well with an iGPU in my rig. Especially because I wouldn't have CUDA.

[IMPERIUS]

sure, you would just get used to not playing games

[Frankenburger]

Without a graphics card? No. X99 and all.

 

I might have a GTX 680 in my closet. I can't remember what the hell I did with that card. Otherwise I'd have to use my old gaming laptop or my old HD4870.