Integrated Graphics card vs Ati Radeon!

[sam1981]

Buying some PCs for business use and am after some opinions on whether you think it's going to make any difference if I buy an ATI Radeon X300SE instead of the integrated Intel videocard.

?60 difference...

Thoughts?

[Ciaran]

What will the PC's be used for?

[sam1981]

business use.

outlook, word, excel, powerpoint, internet access...

certainly not any games or anything thing that graphically intensive... maybe some multimedia presentation CDs at most...

[Ciaran]

There will be no need for the X300 for just that.

[Digfox]

No difference. Anyway an ATI X300SE Retail can be had new for ?41 + postage, and a non-SE X300 (better) for ?46.

So I stick with an integrated solution.

[Freddo]

Although, it may be worth it perhaps possibly for a couple of reasons.

using tfts? your intergrated graphics wont offer dvi output for super-shiny-pin-sharp-digitaly-flavoured-sexyness.

also its way quicker to swap out a defective graphics card than a whole defective motherboard. And you'd still have the intergrated graphics as a backup.

[sam1981]

Cheers for the comments.

I'm in favour of saving dosh and going for the integrated graphics card, but am using TFT monitors, so I suppose the DVI output might be worth it...

[Ciaran]

Office TFT screens would proabably only have VGA inputs and wouldn't benefit from DVI.

[Freddo]

yeah, I'm just making sure you know all the pro's and cons here, I probably still would stick with intergrated.