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    Sandy Bridge GPU

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by GucciMane, May 27, 2011.

  1. GucciMane

    GucciMane Notebook Enthusiast

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    As most of you know the sandy bridge 2630qm has a GPU on board. I've been lurking around and people say there is no optimus and it has been disabled.

    My main question is if it's been disabled, does that mean that 1/5 of the core i7 is just useless silicon and transistors. It could be more then 1/5 just my rough estimate using this picture. I find that super depressing haha, I just wish we could use it for something, I mean its connected RIGHT to those amazing processors :/. Atleast quicksync ? (video transcoding). I wouldn't mind manually switching to it, even from BIOS for times I need battery power. If they cant give us Optimus don't just completely kill off the poor thing :(
     
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  2. manu72

    manu72 Notebook Consultant

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    well, that means only one thing... you have some of the TDP that is not used... which leads us to the conclusion that you have more O/C headroom :D

    awww, but can you OC the sandys? :(
     
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  3. DCx

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    No. 10char.
     
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  4. Yiddo

    Yiddo Believe, Achieve, Receive

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    A CPU's GPU Pfffffffffff....T :(

    Get a pair of scissors and cut it off and superglue two more cores onto the bugger! ;)
     
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    Well, I'm in exactly the same position as OP.
    Since i have an i5, I had hopes that Optimus works and i was rather disappointed when i found out that it is not.
    But actually I can oc my 1st gen i5 and use the TDP that is not used by the "disabled" gpu..
     
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  6. GucciMane

    GucciMane Notebook Enthusiast

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    LOL, we can't do squat with that GPU, they won't even let us overclock the rest of the processor.... :confused:

    Looks like we could have just fit another core in that space. Shiiezz, They should have let me design a non GPU version. Busted out photoshop skills n simple copy paste another core :p
     
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    They should use thie GPU for Physx , cuda, render or wtv...
     
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    Well, that's the question the OP is asking - sort of - can the GPU still function even if it isn't connected to the display.
     
    DCx, May 27, 2011
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