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Hardware question (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello! This might not be the right community but I'm looking at building a new server and you operate in similar areas and might have experience with this. I've got a GPU without video outputs, can I combine that with a CPU without integrated graphics and still get video output from the HDMI located on the motherboard?

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Depends. You can send the signal in Windows through another port.
But if it works without an iGPU...

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In windows you're not sending the signal directly through another port. You're sending the dGPU's signal through the iGPU to get to the port.

    On a laptop with nvidia optimus or AMD's equivalent you can see the increased iGPU usage even though the dGPU is doing the heavy lifting. it's about 30% usage on my 11th gen i9's iGPU routing the 3080s video out to my 4k display.

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