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    After Market G-Sync Requirements

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ChanceJackson, Mar 20, 2017.

  1. ChanceJackson

    ChanceJackson Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm considering upgrading a non-gsync Z-book 15 with a gsync panel and a gsync capable video card with a gsync v-bios if I do that will it be enough to activate gsync? I think I read somewhere that laptop gsync requires a hardware license and the laptop mobo must be in a lookup table to activate sort of like SLI
     
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    saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You seem to be going through an awful lot of trouble, time, and possible expense to make these modifications that may not even work in the end.
     
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    ChanceJackson Notebook Evangelist

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    Risk and reward my friend I haven't bought anything expensive yet and I'm having a lot of fun getting the mental juices flowing with the question of "what if". Everything I do opens my mind to another possibility, every milestone reached gives way to a new realization, a superior method.

    To think my initial interest in this laptop was the fact that it had thunderbolt
     
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    Update: This laptop supports Optimus and Optimus is incompatible with Gsync so I will be abandoning the Gsync upgrade since I'm not sure if turning switchable graphics off is enough to make gsynch work and I will go for popular IPS panel instead
     
    ChanceJackson, Mar 21, 2017
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