Is Intel® HD Graphics 3000 a good card?

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Originally Posted by richfireskull

Well the links are broken but from what I just read, that is a good computer. and if you want to have two graphics cards work as one (SLI for Nvidia and its called something else for ATI cards) for better performance you will need two X16 slots but I don't run SLI and I am fine for the games I play. And is that NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 built in or is it an actual card?

The Nvidia GeForce GT 520 is an actual PCI Express x1 single-length slot card.

Only if the motherboard maker was AMD or Nvidia would this become a chipset embedded onto the motherboard itself.

Originally Posted by richfireskull

...if you want to have two graphics cards work as one (SLI for Nvidia and its called something else for ATI cards) for better performance you will need two X16 slots...

A PCI Express x16 card will work on x16, 2.0 and 2.1 interfaces. I'm not sure if a PCI Express 2.0 or 2.1 card will work in a PCI Express x16 slot, though.