Stand-alone graphics card mandatory or onboard GPU possible?

[wontdo]

Sorry if this is the wrong subforum. My primary question is pretty much the title: Do I need a stand-alone GPU to play WF or are there CPUs with onboard-GPUs that meet the minimum system requirements?

Secondly: Does any current generation stand-alone GPU meet the minimum system requirements (Graphics: Nvidia 8600 GT or ATI Radeon HD 3600 /  AMD 5000 series or Nvidia 400 series) or do unsufficient current GPUs exit? Sorry, I am not technically adept and don't really understand how to interpret benchmarks or the likes...

[Gelkor]

WHAT ARE THE PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR WARFRAME?

The minimum specs for Warframe are:

OS: Windows XP SP3 or higher

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo e6400 or AMD Athlon x64 4000+ (~2.2 dual core CPU)

Memory: 2 GB RAM

Graphics: Nvidia 8600 GT or ATI Radeon HD 3600

DirectX: 9.0c

Hard Drive: 10 GB available space

For DirectX11:

OS: Windows Vista SP2 or higher

Graphics: AMD 5000 series or Nvidia 400 series or higher

To use Nvidia APEX PhysX:

Nvidia Graphics Card with 1G of video RAM

Driver Version 310.90 or higher

Note: There is no Mac or Linux support current available

[Babellon]

I play on my laptop with a onboard graphics. one of those extremely low rate graphics intel 1000 with 32mb reserved memory type of graphics. Game works fine for me, although I do have to generally run it on all low settings with 800x600 resolution to get anything around 30-50fps. If you're able to put in a good card do it. If not it will play, but perhaps not optimally.

[WeaverDuck]

Can tell you that you can run it on radeon HD 5450 (512MB 64bit) on lowest. Dunno if it helps :) You can play with built-in GPU but of course it depends on how good is it

[CrazyCatLad]

I have intel integrated graphics chip on my Laptop. I get over 30 FPS with medium graphics.

[-FrostByte-]

you could probably run wf on a probably less than 200 machine $20 if you are ultra savy and a bit lucky on bargains with pawnshops 2nd hand shops

[wontdo]

Thank you for your answers! Thread closed I guess.