ASUS M4A89GTD PRO USB3 , video card already installed?

i looked a review in a website , and it say onboard vga ( whats vga? video card?) - ATI RADEON 4290 GPU , does this mean the motheboard has already a video/ graphics card installed? can i change it to a RADEON HD 6850? if not tell me some other video/ graphics card that is almost same in comparison with radeon hd 6850 with performance and price|||vga stands for video graphics adapter



pretty much all motherboard have onboard VGA. this is too keep costs down for builds that dont need graphics cards.



onboard vga is fine for general use and the newer ones such as the 4290hd are very good for watching hd movies and some very low level games such as total war games.



i actually have this exact motherboard with a 1055t in it and can highly recommend it.



the onboard vga is not removable from the motherboard it is part of the chipset and as gpus go is rubbish as it will be its only designed for a general use computer not a gaming one.



i personally also have a 6850 hd



as soon as the motherboard detects a graphics card in pci e slot 1 then it will disable the onboard vga (in this case the 4290 hd) and run using the 6850 hd



also in this motherboard make sure you read the instructions you need to insert the switch card into the pci card slot closest to the cpu to direct more bandwidth when only using one card to the slot one thats actually the slot furthest from the cpu (i didnt understand this setup either but its still an amazing motherboard got my 1055t to 4.5ghz stable overclock i was amazed)



so to answer your question onboard vga is very normal and yes you can put a graphics card in, you can actually put 2 graphics cards in crossfire if you want :)|||"onboard vga" means that the video adapter is part of the mobo.

Yes, you can install another video card.



Good Luck