RehabMan
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- Motherboard
- Intel DH67BL
- CPU
- i7-2600K
- Graphics
- HD 3000
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
The performance of OS X will be good without graphics working and using onboard system graphics? Currently I have Dell XPS L501x. It is Core i7, first generation (Nehalem) and it does NOT come with onboard graphics. There was no Optimus at my time and there is no switching to onboard or discrete. So my Hackintosh uses Nvidia graphics only.
If you were to hack it, you'd use the Nvidia chip.
This laptop is 4 years old now and I am thinking to upgrade. I don't game at all, so I don't even need discrete graphics card. Now since I have to use Onboard graphics only, I am confused whether I should go ahead and upgrade or stick with it.
With your particular laptop, onboard graphics is not an option as it doesn't have it.
For modern laptops with Intel HD integrated graphics, the performance is adequate for everyday tasks (non-gaming), and even adequate for so-called light gaming (not a gamer either).