ive been in the process of building a computer. my first one. its on some what of a budget but will be upgraded as get payed just like most budget bulds. im going for a good performing mobo with onboard graphics and ive beed searching online and have yet to find anyways to tell if they have it or now. some list but others dont. how can i figure out if the mobo has onboard without contacting asking a computer guy all the time.

MB usually has Video or the specific onboard graphics like say GMA3100 in the description. Although browsing it right now there appears to be some exceptions. Perhaps you can give us more details about what you're building(and budget) and we can make some suggestions.

Ick onboard graphics makes Steve-O a sad panda.

well i was looking at the e8400 bc of its performance and price. i have ordered a case and ps from online bc i liked the look and the price was what i was looking to spend for the 2 things. i have 4 gb of ocz pc6400 ram 250gb internal hd and 1 tb external i got for a b day gift. i was planing on getting my mobo this pay and graphics in a little bit where i need to save for longer bc of school i cant work full time

The lowest of the low-end video cards would be better than anything built-in. Even a 50$ Radeon 3450 would be better, and it'll decode video fine.

so getting back to my question is there anyway easy way to tell

If it doesn't come right out and say... have a look at the input/output connections either in the picture or in the board specs.

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nednil

you should look at going with an AMD 780G chipset or even the AMD 790 GX ( If its even out). The former is relatively cheap board. Has an onboard video card that is similar to a 3450 in performance. It can also handle any video content you can throw at it. ( Blu ray playback, HD video etc, providing a good cpu to match.

I am building a small HTPC around this board (mATX case) use the onboard video for a while then swing for a 4850 when funds permit ( and games are out such as Diablo III)

Board sounds like quite the steal if you want to sort of build slowly up to a decent machine, without the big expense for everything. basically with case, memory, cpu and board, I am looking at around 400$ including taxes.

for info on chipset

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd ... ,1785.html

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/ ... =M452-6036
i just pulled this mobo from tiger as an example. looks to me to have the same plug as what steve-o said.[/img]

Nope, it's got a serial port which has pins rather than holes, and there is nothing there that's labeled as being "video out".

ASUS M3A78-EMH HDMI (102$)
AMD Athlon-64 X2 Dual Core (6000+) (128$)

But I'm just an AMD fanboi. Even so there is abosolutely nothing on the Intel side that even touches it.

CMDR's pointing to the blue colored (vga) port. It has 3 rows of 5 holes. If you see a motherboard with that vga port then it has built in grahpics of some kind.

Some motherboards/sites may say something like "gma3100" in the description - then you know it has built in intel video. Some will say GeForce #### (like 6100, 8200, etc), like this:

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/ ... CatId=2321

Some may just say "video" in the description, like this:

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/ ... CatId=2321

Yeah, sorry it's the best arrow I could do hehe