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A radio switch to turn on graphic card,or shut it off.... and depend on intergrated graphics

150 points posted to Laptops by kailer Jun 6

My laptop graphic card is eating up alot of my energy,that is what i realize.so it will be great if we can turn off the graphic card while we are not gaming but turn it on if we need it....
because if i am doing work using laptop using the graphic card without running on power source...i cant finish my work in such a short time.i might as well turn off my graphic card because Microsoft word doesn't need great graphic to work on it......
it be great for those who wants a gaming laptop while the laptop can last long too when you are not gaming...

idangold
Jun 6		 If you support the quick introduction of the upcoming 9m series geforce cards then you'll be happy to discover that they include a technology called "Hybrid SLI" which is and I quote the Nvidia Website "Intelligently switch gears between performance or battery life ----
Turn on the discrete graphics card for extra performance when gaming or watching videos or instantly turn the discrete graphics off and use the GeForce motherboard GPU when you want to add more battery life" So what you can do is Promote my topic discussing the fact that Dell should implement this 9m series and quickley , The topic is "9600m gt 512mb ddr3 on xps 1530" ;)
boettr
Jun 6		 This is only when used with a nvidia graphics chipset though.
The ability to switch to onboard graphics has already been done on an Intel chipset by the alienware m15x. I'm not sure how much of it is software and how much of it is hardware but since Dell owns Alienware I'm sure it wouldn't be to hard to port over.
I think this tech makes perfect sense.
idangold
Jun 6		 yeah you are right, I do realise that this will only happen when its an nvidia graphics chipset but like you said ALienware has that option and Dell do own them so... either way a solution is very much at hand!
 
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