@g0177325 thank you for your advice. I typed “sysinfo” into the search bar. My old computer (HP Pavilion Desktop PC 570-p0xx) has an Intel(R) Core™ i3-7100 CPU and Intel(R) HD Graphics 630 which is an integrated graphics card. I did not see a separate graphics card.
I don’t know what’s in the new computer because I can’t connect it to a monitor until I get the cable.
Wendy
Good advice! Thanks. I checked. My old LaserJet 1200 will work with Win 11. I probably will have to update the driver in the new computer.
Wendy
Alrighty, back from running my errands.
I don’t know exactly where you are in graphics card knowledge, so will cover some basics.. I see that you found your existing HP had the graphics on the motherboard, so I will skip that part.
Inspection of you new computer will tell you what you have for graphics.
If the monitor ports are installed like these VGA and DVI ports, they are on an optional card.
PCIe X16 slot, with no card installed.
Since you established that your existing HP has the graphics chips on the motherboard, seems you don’t have a card you could move to the new computer. So whether you go with a new internal card, assuming your new computer has the right sort of slot available, or an external adapter is up to you. I had to educate myself about this a while back, and developed the plan to move my existing cards into whatever computers come after them, assuming the PCIe X16 slot is still being used, to maintain VGA/DVI capability.
@steve203 thank you for the education. My new computer and monitor will be connected by a DisplayPro to HDMI cable. The monitor has a VGA port but the computer doesn’t. HDMI is faster than VGA and DisplayPro is still faster. DisplayPort was designed for computer use as a replacement for DVI and VGA connectors.
I don’t know yet whether my computer has a separate graphics card. Given my hardware, would it make a difference?
Wendy
Well, if your computer had the right sort of card slot, and that triple whizbang output, was on a card, you could pull that card, and install an internal card that would support your monitor, rather than use the adapter.
I was forced to learn about this for a couple reasons: I refuse to buy a new monitor, just because the old computer needed to be replaced and the new computer and old monitor have different interfaces, and, 2, I have two monitors (one per computer) sitting on a desk I have had since the 80s. Two 17" wide screen monitors sit pretty much cheek to cheek on the desk, no room for bigger monitors. Seems no-one makes monitors as small as 17" anymore, so that leaves me shopping the Salvation Army store for monitors. The good, the Salvation Army sells used monitors for $10. The bad, they are all old, meaning VGA/DVI inputs, not the latest whizbang.
Steve
On the back of your computer where its silvery metallic, you might see a rectangular area on the upper half along one side with a bunch of different type plugs. The long side of the rectangle runs vertical. On the lower half of the metal back you will see multiple rectangular slots running horizontally. If the video out is on the upper half in that rectangular box that runs vertical, then you plug your monitor into the motherboard. If you plug it into one of the horizontal rectangular slots on the lower half, you have a video card. Thats for a regular upright computer box, not one of those that lie flat. I don’t have a visual of what the flat ones have on the back as I am old school and have the old vertical style ATX case. HTH…doc
The thing about waiting two years is that the price of the Win 10 and 11 OS’s will have dropped significantly from what it is today because WIn 12 will be coming out LOL…doc
Os prices don’t work that way. All Win10 customers can update to Win11 for free, for example, as long as their hardware supports Win11.
Refurbs are also often repaired systems. Nothing wrong with that, just sayin’.
They can be screaming great deals, esp. if you can get warranty from the original maker. My current laptop which I bought maybe in February or so is new but I hadn’t bought a new system in >20 years prior to that, all refurbs or used on eBay.
I’ve owned two refurbs. Both failed before their time. One had power supply failure that fried the mother board. The other had premature hard drive failure.
Some are heavily used before being refurbed.
