Motherboard output or video card output?

[Sir Launcelot]

I am planning to purchase a video card (yeah right, i am looking for a decently priced one in this mining inflation) but my problem is I am still using a VGA monitor. Is it okay to still use the VGA output in my motherboard? Will my monitor still receive the gpu output? or should i purchase a converter?

 

purchasing a new monitor is out of the question. I don't have the budget yet to purchase a new one nor my parents won't support me getting a new one if the one I am using right now got no problem (lol).

 

[tarfeef101]

No, using the output from the motherboard will use the integrated graphics

(also if you don't have a monitor that can take advantage of a better GPU, what's the point of getting a new GPU? Just save your money for a monitor that'll make the experience worth it, then get a GPU to match)

[Sir Launcelot]

1 minute ago, tarfeef101 said:

No, using the output from the motherboard will use the integrated graphics

so i should get an adapter?

[Ashleyyyy]

what games do you play?

 

what resolution is your monitor?

 

what is your budget?

[Sir Launcelot]

7 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

what games do you play?

 

what resolution is your monitor?

 

what is your budget?

commenting on these would make me tell my future plans. my computer is still like a gateway to the gaming. Its cheap since my parents chose and purchase the parts. Some online games like DOTA 2, LoL, and crossfire. Planning to purchase more games once I got a video card, I got my eyes on GTA V and PUBG.

1366*768 monitor resolution. budget? I can't comment on that yet.

[Silentprototipe]

Just get like a GT 1030 with an HDMI to VGA adaptor 

[ProjectBox153]

4 minutes ago, silentprototipe said:

Just get like a GT 1030 with an HDMI to VGA adaptor 

I’d look for DP to VGA. HDMI to VGA tends to be iffy. 

[Sir Launcelot]

19 minutes ago, tarfeef101 said:

 if you don't have a monitor that can take advantage of a better GPU, what's the point of getting a new GPU? Just save your money for a monitor that'll make the experience worth it, then get a GPU to match

this is my dilemma. Either I postpone gpu for monitor or postpone a monitor for gpu. the solution I came up is since i have a monitor, I should use it much longer. Because i want to play in this as much as i can

[Ashleyyyy]

but you are currently on integrated graphics? or do you have a gpu in your machine..?

[Sir Launcelot]

I dont have a gpu yet. only intel HD 630

[tarfeef101]

yeah I still maintain that you should not buy a new GPU. Get the monitor you want to target first, then get the GPU once you have the $$ to use that monitor to it's fullest. 

No point spending $ on a GPU that isn't going to be used to it's fullest

[SupaKomputa]

a 1030 will work with your monitor, games will run at full speed at that resolutions.

some 1030 still have vga output, if not you can get a cheap hdmi or dvi to analog vga adapter.

5 hours ago, Sir Launcelot said:

this is my dilemma. Either I postpone gpu for monitor or postpone a monitor for gpu. the solution I came up is since i have a monitor, I should use it much longer. Because i want to play in this as much as i can

Buy GPU first, then the monitor if you want more resolutions.

I have 3 monitors one of them still use vga.

[Sir Launcelot]

5 hours ago, tarfeef101 said:

yeah I still maintain that you should not buy a new GPU. Get the monitor you want to target first, then get the GPU once you have the $$ to use that monitor to it's fullest. 

No point spending $ on a GPU that isn't going to be used to it's fullest

this could work right now since gpu are overpriced these days. but my target yet is the ability to play the games. aesthetics later

[tarfeef101]

14 hours ago, Sir Launcelot said:

this could work right now since gpu are overpriced these days. but my target yet is the ability to play the games. aesthetics later

Well I don't remember what your config is right now, but I had a friend play on integrated graphics on a laptop for a few years  before I built him a PC (we play warframe, btw) so you should be able to get by for now.

But especially with prices high right now, and the fact that the GPU really wouldn't be giving you the full value since you wouldn't be using it to it's fullest, I still think that's the way to go.