How does the ATI Radeon XPress 200 interact with installed..

External Since: Feb 12, 2008 Posts: 9

I have a ATI Radeon XPress 200 integrated chipset on my motherboard. I
also have a Radeon X700 PCIe card installed. I have read, and heard,
in several places that the integrated graphics will work in tandem, to
whatever extent, with any installed ATI graphics card. So, how,
exactly, do the two interact with each other?

In the Windows Hardware Manager, it lists two graphics devices: X700
and X700 secondary. The "secondary" is obviously the onboard graphics,
but what function does it serve?

External Since: Jan 21, 2006 Posts: 356

"ShadowTek" <psistormyamato RemoveThis @cs.com> wrote in message
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>I have a ATI Radeon XPress 200 integrated chipset on my motherboard. I
> also have a Radeon X700 PCIe card installed. I have read, and heard,
> in several places that the integrated graphics will work in tandem, to
> whatever extent, with any installed ATI graphics card. So, how,
> exactly, do the two interact with each other?
>
> In the Windows Hardware Manager, it lists two graphics devices: X700
> and X700 secondary. The "secondary" is obviously the onboard graphics,
> but what function does it serve?

No, the secondary is the the second display which you don't have. The Xpress
200 IGP utilizes an integrated X300 series graphics core which along with
your X700 can drive 3 monitors. There's more to it than this, but they can't
run in X-Fire mode. What you're seeing is your single Radeon X700 PCI-ecard
in the hardware list.
Some reading assignments for you may clarify....