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Limp Gawd
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At Guru3d news of a nvidia mobo series 780a, 750a and 730a. graphics chip on on board to give a boost to 3D graghics. I was going upgrade to 780i but i might as well wait until this new series arrives at the end of 08 along with the new alienware 2880X900 LCD projection monitor(36" wide). just so difficult to keep up now a days. Looks like i will also wait on a new graghics card until something really new comes along.
 
The graphics boost it gives is only beneficial if you have a low or midrange video card. It essentially SLI's your graphics card with the onboard video, so if your card is much better than the onboard, it throttles back to the onboard specs.
 
the "a" also means that those chipsets are for AMD CPUs.
 
IHateYou said:
The graphics boost it gives is only beneficial if you have a low or midrange video card. It essentially SLI's your graphics card with the onboard video, so if your card is much better than the onboard, it throttles back to the onboard specs.
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That is the most ridiculos idea i have heard all day.
 
IHateYou said:
The graphics boost it gives is only beneficial if you have a low or midrange video card. It essentially SLI's your graphics card with the onboard video, so if your card is much better than the onboard, it throttles back to the onboard specs.
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It didn't sound to me like it throttles back to onboard specs, just adds the, very limited, capability of the onboard graphics to your discrete graphics power. So a pretty small boost for an 8800 card, but not bad for someone with a real low-end unit.

The more intriguing thing is the hybrid power option to turn off the discrete card completely - now that's a useful addition.
 
If it is sli, SLI allways reverts to the slowest card. But real sli only works with the same range of GPU's

hmmm
 
The main point is to save power consumption when your GPU is not being stressed, so it switches the OS rendering etc. to the on-board GPU.
 
I suppose that you aren't maxing out your PSU as much at the same time, especially if you have SLI 8800s sitting in your chassis. This means heat and noise reduction, and it could save money in the longer run.
 
The Guru3d article didn't mention it was AMD, but I see from the other article it is. I will just have to wait for the intel version.
 
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