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    M17x R4 7970m- Why can't we have M17x R3 type switching?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Raidriar, Jan 10, 2013.

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    Enduro is still bugging me. Yes I can turn off the laptop and switch to iGPU or dGPU, but it gets annoying after a while. When I had the M17x R3, its switching system was perfect. Full switch between a dGPU card or a iGPU with fn+ f7, YOU got to control the switching, not enduro, and there was no loss of performance. why can't we have that type of switching back. This was referred to as muxed switching, the current scheme is a muxless dynamic switcher. Muxed switch ftw. I'm sure it would only take a simple driver + simple bios override and we could dump enduro all together.
     
    Raidriar, Jan 10, 2013
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