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    Vaio VPCCW17FX and Hybrid SLI

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Juason, Nov 3, 2009.

  1. Juason

    Juason Notebook Consultant

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    Howdy folks,

    I recently bought my wife a VPCCW17FX sony laptop, with the G210m 256mb video card. From what I've seen of the specs, this should be capable of hybrid SLI... but I'm not seeing where you enable it in Win7.

    Now I realize win7 doesn't natively support hybrid SLI, but Dell 13" laptops with the same video card do support it in Win7 according to various forum posts and 3dmark 2006 results.

    Her laptop gets 3500 3dmarks, compared to 5000 on the dells with hybrid sli enabled - so the benefits are noticeable.

    Might anyone know how I could get the hybrid sli enabled? I've checked with GPU-Z to double check, and do not see any options in the bios about it.

    Thanks!
     
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  2. Howitzer225

    Howitzer225 Death Company Dreadnought

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    AFAIK, you need an Nvidia IGP in conjunction with a discrete card to get Hybrid SLI. Sony CW does not come with the 9400M as with the Dell Studio XPS 13, so no discrete + integrated card there. However, you're better off with the single card since Hybrid SLI has little support in games and applications. Plus no microstuttering to worry about.
     
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