The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    No "on-board graphics adapter model" - does this affect gaming?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by muldoon, Jan 11, 2014.

  1. muldoon

    muldoon Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Don't fully understand what it means, but will it affect the ability to run games? I'm looking at specs on this site and it says there's no built in on-board graphics adapter model, but still 2GB graphics memory available. The laptop has 8GB memory available, using Intel Core i7-4702HQ, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760M (2 GB).

    My knowledge of all things related to specs is limited, but from what I've gathered that's a pretty decent laptop for casual gaming. But I've never seen anything related to adapter models so I have no idea how this affects gaming performance, or if it means I won't be able to play games at all. Enlighten me?
     
    muldoon, Jan 11, 2014
    #1
  2. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

    Reputations:
    21,580
    Messages:
    35,370
    Likes Received:
    9,877
    Trophy Points:
    931
    It has a GTX 760m which is a medium grade GPU but wil play games at 1366x768 or 1280x720 without much issue. 1080p details will have to be dropped to play the games.
     
    HTWingNut, Jan 11, 2014
    #2
  3. JOSEA

    JOSEA NONE

    Reputations:
    4,013
    Messages:
    3,521
    Likes Received:
    170
    Trophy Points:
    131
    Just an aside, without on-board graphics (and optimus which allows switching) battery life will suffer with this mysterious machine; assuming it is a notebook.
     
    JOSEA, Jan 11, 2014
    #3
  4. qweryuiop

    qweryuiop Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    373
    Messages:
    1,364
    Likes Received:
    89
    Trophy Points:
    66
    it is most likely present if its a laptop, since there is yet another machine other than the SLIed laptop or an ASUS that provides no graphics switching, or shall I say, no on-board graphics

    gaming uses the gtx760m solely so it doesn't matter if the on-board graphics is present or not, it is as simple as using one for casual task and the other one for graphically intensive task
     
    qweryuiop, Jan 11, 2014
    #4
  5. muldoon

    muldoon Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    The laptop is an Acer Aspire V3, if it helps. Could be the site had wrong information, but if it doesn't really matter if it's there or not, then I guess I got my answer.
     
    muldoon, Jan 11, 2014
    #5
  6. qweryuiop

    qweryuiop Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    373
    Messages:
    1,364
    Likes Received:
    89
    Trophy Points:
    66
    it does have on-board graphics, and yes, it doesn't affect gameplay

    make sure you are buying the 1080p version, the specs sheet did inform me that there exists a 900p version
     
    qweryuiop, Jan 11, 2014
    #6