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756 points mtlynch | 3 comments | 23 Jul 20 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.653s | source
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dannyw ◴[23 Jul 20 16:44 UTC] No.23929233[source]▶
Hey OP, I was reading your linked HomeLab article and you mentioned you'd rather have gotten a mobo with integrated GPUs next time.

Actually, motherboards do not include integrated graphics, it's all in the CPU/APU. The mobo you linked would not provide graphics either.

AMD unfortunately does not have a high end APU released to consumers right now (there are some 4000 series, but only to OEMs I believe). However, for a HomeLab setup, you might find a cheap GPU to be useful for many things (including hardware video transcoding).

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1. dsr_ ◴[23 Jul 20 17:08 UTC] No.23929551[source]▶
For years and years, many motherboards did have graphics sets integrated in. These days, you'll still see that on a lot of server-class motherboards.

e.g. https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/M11SDV-4C... -- the line about AST2500 BMC graphics? That runs a VGA port.

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2. btown ◴[23 Jul 20 17:27 UTC] No.23929795[source]▶
I'm guessing the rationale for this is that even if the server's CPU can support onboard graphics, you wouldn't want to change the CPU's load profile just by plugging in a monitor to debug something? Or even to support CPUs that have no onboard graphics support?
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3. dsr_ ◴[23 Jul 20 17:45 UTC] No.23930011[source]▶
Mostly the second -- the high end Intel and AMD CPUs don't have integrated graphics, and nobody wants to spend precious PCIe slots on a graphics card that won't be used except at install time and emergencies... or is more useful as a GPU slot that never produces video output.