Long story short, I bought a gaming laptop that came with both a NVIDIA GTX 660M card and an Intel HD 4000 card.
I tried searching up answers on Google and some other forums, but all I could find were results about SLI or Crossfire cards, which I don't have.
Any answers are appreciated, thanks.
Basically, your Intel card is used for day to day things while your Nvidia card is used while you do more intensive things.
You can set your Nvidia card to be the default in the Nvidia control panel.
Is there any benefit to having this? The best I can assume is that it keeps the graphics cards "last longer" in the sense of collecting dust and not being-overused.
Means your laptop doesn't waste as much battery when you're just browsing the web or something.
If you keep it plugged in all the time then it's pretty much pointless, yeah.
Sli and crossfire are only for discrete cards. Intel graphics are integrated
Awesome.
Alright, one more quick question.
My Asus laptop runs fine unless I'm running some advanced gameson max settings like Battlefield 3 or Crysis 2 Maximum Edition. A cooling pad and/or a laptop stand a pretty much pointless as this laptop, the Asus G46VW, has the cooling vents in the back, right where the back of the keyboard-piece of the laptop is. When I last checked, it was extremely hot. Any good tips to keep it cool?
I can't give that many tips, sorry, since I have the same sort of problems with my laptop (Lenovo Y580)
I think having a cooling pad would help, actually, since it would at least keep the surface of the laptop cooler.
You'd think that, but only about 5% of the heat is released from the bottom of the laptop, making the cost of a cooling pad pretty much make it useless.
I have a cooling pad, but like you said the heat comes out the back..
I dunno, maybe move the cooling pad below the vents so it blows upwards?
- Just some ideas
The vents literally blow out the back of the laptop.
[t]http://i.pcworld.fr/1253773-asus-rog-g46-portable-gamer-4.jpg[/t]
Here, this is the back of it. The vents blow the heat out the back, and yes the top and bottom of the vents get really hot too, but a cooling pad isn't so good as most of them cool down the center of the laptop.
What I figured is I'd put a small towel in my mini-fridge freezer, then when the laptop gets exceedingly hot, I'd either stop playing or apply the "frozen" towel to the back-area of the laptop.
Wouldn't that block the airflow though? Unless it's a pulling fan.
I put it directly under the vents so it cools down and buildup on the desk,as well as cooling down the desk.
I cooling pad that would do the same thing as what I'm doing with this towel would be heavenly.
2 cards is pretty pointless
you're WAY better off just getting a better card for pretty much the same cost
2 cards is perfect if you need way more monitors or you're a performance freak with money to blow and get 2 top end cards
for me I really cannot see the point of any more than 2 monitors, I mean, like, except playing 1 game on 3 but yeah that's too much. And you aren't even getting it for that.
[QUOTE=J!NX;42104953]2 cards is pretty pointless
you're WAY better off just getting a better card for pretty much the same cost
2 cards is perfect if you need way more monitors or you're a performance freak with money to blow and get 2 top end cards
for me I really cannot see the point of any more than 2 monitors, I mean, like, except playing 1 game on 3 but yeah that's too much. And you aren't even getting it for that.[/QUOTE]
1: You didnt read the op.
2:You are full of shit anyway. And seem to have never heard of Crossfire or SLI.
Cooling:
Laptops are designed to get really hot. And applying moist towels to electronics is not a good idea.
If your laptop has air intakes on the bottom a cooling pad will work.
Yours is not a special case. Allmost all laptops realease hot air in the back or side like yours and have air intakes on the bottom.
Also alot of laptops have an integrated Intel GPU and a seperate card for gaming like yours has. Some software allows yout to switch automatically between them depending on what you are doing on the laptop. (look at the Asus downloads site, they might have it to.)
[QUOTE=taipan;42107095]1: You didnt read the op.
2:You are full of shit anyway. And seem to have never heard of Crossfire or SLI.
Cooling:
Laptops are designed to get really hot. And applying moist towels to electronics is not a good idea.
If your laptop has air intakes on the bottom a cooling pad will work.
Yours is not a special case. Allmost all laptops realease hot air in the back or side like yours and have air intakes on the bottom.
Also alot of laptops have an integrated Intel GPU and a seperate card for gaming like yours has. Some software allows yout to switch automatically between them depending on what you are doing on the laptop. (look at the Asus downloads site, they might have it to.)[/QUOTE]
I thought he meant 2 same graphics cards rather :v: I know of SLI, I just don't know of the real use unless you play a SLI ready game.
I must have read it too fast, then.
[QUOTE=J!NX;42110349]I thought he meant 2 same graphics cards rather :v: I know of SLI, I just don't know of the real use unless you play a SLI ready game.
I must have read it too fast, then.[/QUOTE]
You need to have 2 of the same cards (or same series) for SLI, So i still dont understand what you are saying.
And Not supporting SLI is a rarity nowa days.
I'm aware that freezing a towel could cause some problems,but I used a dried towel so no liquid actually comes off on the laptop. I'm going to get a cooling pad sometime soon just to improve cooling.
On another note, and this is probably a dumb question, but lowering the graphics settings on games like Battlefield 3 would decrease how fast the heating occurs, or possibly keep the max laptop temperature at a lower point than at higher settings, correct?
[QUOTE=huntingrifle;42120227]I'm aware that freezing a towel could cause some problems,but I used a dried towel so no liquid actually comes off on the laptop. I'm going to get a cooling pad sometime soon just to improve cooling.
On another note, and this is probably a dumb question, but lowering the graphics settings on games like Battlefield 3 would decrease how fast the heating occurs, or possibly keep the max laptop temperature at a lower point than at higher settings, correct?[/QUOTE]
It most likely would make a small difference but not alot.
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