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

[Boris Borisov]

Most chipsets have some sort of graphics core included.  Is not cutting
edge bur cover basics just fine.

Check the specs of you motherboard.

On Thu, Jun 26, 2025, 17:00 Ron via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 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!
>
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