[ale] AMD B550 and how to use HDMI on the mother board

[Ron]

Narahari Lakshminarayana via Ale wrote on 2025-06-26 13:27:

> If I put the S2600 CPU, I need to put a sep video card, correct ?

A look at this link:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Ryzen_processors#Pinnacle_Ridge_(2000_series,_Zen+_based)

does not show an S2600, but the 2600s shown there have "No integrated 
graphics."



> Does that video card have to have HDMI port or can a simple DVI or VGA 
> port is good enough  ?

I could have whatever connections are supplied by the video card you choose.


It looks like the B550 motherboard supports graphics, so there's 
probably an output or 2, but without CPU support they won't work.



I have a Ryzen 5 CPU that supports video, and a motherboard that also 
supports it with HDMI & DP outputs.  No monitors plugged in (can't get 
it working with a discrete card - see next point).

I've then installed a GPU (AMD) that has DP, HDMI, and DVI.  I have 
monitors plugged into this.

Then, there's yet another graphics card (nVidia) that supports DVI, and 
there's a monitor plugged in to that.


So, any card you want should work (except something extreme like an 
nVidea 5090 that has insane power requirements).



Hopefully this helps? Good luck!