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?

  • @[email protected]English
    1•9 months ago

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

    • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumbleEnglish
      9•9 months ago

      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.