I am currently using Intel Quick Sync Video within the processor for hardware transcoding, but have ordered a GTX1060 (which I intend to unlock) - running on Windows.
Should I leave the onboard GPU enabled when the GTX is installed or should I disable it?
I am assuming that I should disable it, but wondered if the hardware transcoding could be made to direct to the second card and not use the CPU based GPU?
I guess disabling it will leave the i7 to perform other duties (freeing up capacity) and leave the GTX doing transcoding which it is better at.
I did wonder if both GPU and GTX would get used, but doubted that it would be that smart to use both…
I did try and see what the guys using the mining GTX based cards did but did not find an answer.
You can leave the i7 video enabled. May want to set the PEG card to primary in the motherboard bios though, so your bios screens will display through the video card and not the onboard, or it’s moving video cables.
Toms hardware did tests years ago when the i7s first released built in graphics, and found even though the system was using a discrete video card, the performance across most applications was slightly higher than the same i7 without built in graphics (i7-2600[K])
I believe this is still the case on the newer processors. I personally haven’t played around with it since my i7-2600K
Plex uses the default GPU, so you need to set the 1060 as the default. On some systems this can be done w/o disabling the i7 GPU. You’ll have to check the BIOS settings for your system.
Edit: Example from my Gigabyte motherboard.
If I set Initial Display Output to PCIe 1, Plex uses my video card for hardware acceleration, even if Intel Processor Graphics is still enabled.
If I set Initial Display Output to IGFX, Plex uses the graphics processor in my CPU and ignores the video card.
