B550 Phantom Gaming 4/ac iGPU and GPU

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   Thanks for detailed explanation. It helped me understand where I stood.

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sungp77 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 7 hours 6 minutes ago Status: Offline Points: 30	Post Options Post Reply Quote sungp77 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: B550 Phantom Gaming 4/ac iGPU and GPU Posted: 5 hours 40 minutes ago at 12:55am
	Thanks for detailed explanation. It helped me understand where I stood. Cheers.

Xaltar Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 16 May 2015 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 28143	Post Options Post Reply Quote Xaltar Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 5 hours 43 minutes ago at 12:52am
	Getting an iGPU and dedicated GPU to work together can be tricky even with new hardware. It becomes increasingly more difficult when the GPU is old. The 5000 series is well beyond support these days. You could probably get is working under something like Linux pretty easily but you will have a hard time with modern windows. Not only is your HD 5000 old but it's also a mobility variant which is even harder to get drivers working for under windows 8 and newer. You might want to look at picking up a newer dedicated GPU that has multiple outputs and use that for both displays. Radeon RX 570/580s can be picked up very cheaply on the used market these days as well as others of similar performance/functionality. I wouldn't recommend anything much older as even the RX 580 is close to the end of it's driver support life. Edited by Xaltar - 5 hours 43 minutes ago at 12:52am


sungp77 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 7 hours 6 minutes ago Status: Offline Points: 30	Post Options Post Reply Quote sungp77 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 6 hours 50 minutes ago at 11:45pm
	Hey there. Looking to get some help on my situation. I hope I'm at the correct place. Just got done building a new computer with B550 Phantom Gaming 4/ac and Ryzen 5 5600GT. What I realized afterwards was that the mobo only has total of one HDMI output and I need two output for two monitor setup. I had an old Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series (don't remember the exact model) laying around, so I thought I'd give it a go, but with no luck. I have two monitors hooked up; the main one to B550 and a second one to 5000. Here are the combination of results I get: 1. Set the BIOS to default to "internal" graphics and my main monitor works great with B550 HDMI. Can't get the second monitor to turn on, even though the 5000 is recognized in Device Manager. 2. Set the BIOS to default to "external" graphics and my second monitor that's hooked up to 5000 works, although I cannot get it to update the driver properly to get to optimal resolution. So the question is, It's hard to imagine, but is B550 Phantom Gaming 4/ac designed not to work alongside another graphics card? Or is it because my 5000 is too old to be compatible?