Intel HD + Nvidia in device manager ok?

[ep0x73]

Just curious if people leave both enabled or disable Intel if they are using a dedicated card.

My thought it is your main GPU fried and you removed it then you can use Intel by default but not if you have it disable in windows.

Bios it will default to Intel automatically if not disabled if no GPU is present.

I keep the driver of the Intel updated just for the hell of it. Uninstalling the driver, well when you start windows it would install the Intel driver regardless.

I've disabled it through device manger and I don't see any difference.

Enabling allows you to see Intel HD in GPU-z but that's about it.

No harm no foul it would appear to have two GPU's enabled at the same time since you can't use both at the same time.
I've had more then one audio device enabled so I could switch back and forth at will [onboard/dedicated] and never had any issues.

One question, with Intel enabled does it make the CPU work any harder or does it matter?

GPU-z shows Intel HD 4600 running at around 93F at idle. If disabled you can't see the temp thus you can't verify if turning it off does anything.

 

[YeuEmMaiMai]

I leave mine disabled.

 

[chibe]

Unless you are using quick sync, just disable it.

 

[diizzy]

You still need to hack around if you're using quick sync, you're better using CUDA in that case. I'd also recommend you disable it and that way you also don't need to install Virtu,
//Danne

 

[ep0x73]

If you disable it in windows but not in bios and you lost your main GPU would windows with a restart enable it if it was your only graphics adapter?

This is assuming you don't have another dedicated card laying around good enough to get video to get into device manager so you can enable Intel.