Intel Extreme Graphics 2 UMA

[bogard81]

Is this good for playing games that i played with a geforce 4?is this his equivalent with a geforce 4 or above?

[Weirdy]

if I were you I'd do some research on the mobo instead

[Shibathedog]

Intel cards usually blow, one of my computers has a Intel 64MB Something or other, and its alright i guess, barely barelyyyy plays ut2k4 on all the way low.

 

Also make sure to go into your BIOS settings and adjust the amount of extra memory the graphics chip has, the default is like 1MB which is stupid, just throw it up as high as it can go (i think its like 8MB, because its extra memory it takes from your RAM) and that helps ALOT

[Agozer]

Never go for an integrated graphics card, epecially something made by Intel.

[Shibathedog]

never go for integrated anything at all, even sound card

[Gryph]

The integrated Nvidia Soundstorms were very good. However, integrated graphics is a big no for gaming.

[Wizard]

Nvidia's onboard sounds are some of, if not THE best you can get.

[Shibathedog]

uhhhh i wouldnt go that far, they arent bad though, but most people dont get that when they buy integrated stuff, they get some SoundMAX card or something (which i think is intel)

[prithwin]

onboard stuff is no good

[Shibathedog]

yeah, thats the basic rule of thumb

 

Ive noticed with mobos that have like everything onboard (aka emachines) one thing will eventually crap out (like your sound card) and then it seems to start a chain reaction and eventually everything is blown out

 

eww....dont but an emachine anyway you dolt

[Wizard]

They usually get some cheap crap like a RealTEK or one of them useless ones. I really like nVidia's onboard sounds. Only beef is that they use more ram and cpu.