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    Samsung Serie 3 with NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by Fkl, Jan 7, 2013.

  1. Fkl

    Fkl Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    I can have a good deal on a Samsung Serie 3 laptop with a core i3 and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX graphic card. I never play, so I'd like to use only the graphic card embedded in the i3.

    Can this laptop be configured this way ? if yes, how does it works ?

    Thanks for any information
     
    Fkl, Jan 7, 2013
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    Fkl Notebook Enthusiast

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    I believe the laptop I'm looking at has Nvidia optimus, so I'd like to know if I can completely disable the Nvidia gpu and use only the intel one.
     
    Fkl, Jan 8, 2013
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    HerEsY Notebook Evangelist

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    You can set the NVIDIA GeForce GT 520MX to integrated graphics for both global setting plus program setting in the control panel which will pretty much render the NVIDIA card useless, if that's any good to you.

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    Fkl Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the information. Based on other things I found on the web, I'm not sure this force the NVidia to nether work (for instance, if you use the HDMI output, I read that the NVIDIA works all the time, no matter what you do).

    There is another Samsung, still serie 3, which is 50 Euros more, have only the i3 GPU and has a bigger hard drive (750 G instead of 500 G) so I will probably buy this one.
     
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    HerEsY Notebook Evangelist

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    To the best of my knowledge, HDMI is an Intel development (The HDMI Founders are Hitachi, Matsua Electric Industrial (Panasonic/National/Quasar), Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thomson (RCA) and Toshiba.[14] Digital Content Protection, LLC provides HDCP (which was developed by Intel) for HDMI.[16] HDMI has the support of motion picture producers Fox, Universal, Warner Bros. and Disney, along with system operators DirecTV, EchoStar (Dish Network) and CableLabs.[UNDER HISTORY) and is controlled by the integrated graphics control panel which is also Intel. And if I try playing games with the 3 D setting set to integrated graphics for both global & program setting, my games hardly run, so I don't know how the NVIDIA card would still be running, in any case good luck with it.
     
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    Fkl Notebook Enthusiast

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    i read somewhere that when reading flash videos, NVidia GPU is used ..
    Anyway, I bought a Serie 3 without NVidia, only the core i3 GPU and am very happy with it :)
     
    Fkl, Jan 9, 2013
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