Cairn Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I'm looking to buy a new laptop with some decent hardware, but apparently many, it seems, refuses to allow us to disable the integrated graphics so that we can rely entirely upon our graphics card. I am sick and tired of this run-around game laptop manufacturer's like to play where they tell me something that isn't true about their machine. I can no longer trust laptop vendors to be honest about their machines, nor can I trust that they even know what they're talking about half of the time. So, if you wouldn't mind, if you have the option to disable integrated graphics FROM THE BIOS, please let me know. I'm tired of using that sometimes working sometimes not Nvidia control panel to handle the use of which graphics processor. If you have over-clocking options on your laptop's BIOS, that would make for a significant bonus in my consideration of which laptop to buy. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew.We Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I don't know what machine you have but on mine I'd love to have intel graphics enabled. I have a Lenovo y500 and imo the battery life sucks... I'm in the process of flashing a modded BIOS just so I can see if this is possible (as well as replace my shit wireless card..). You're not wrong though, OEMs do tend to lie about their products just to make more money, but in fairness if you were in their position wouldn't you do the same? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
octiceps Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 I don't know what machine you have but on mine I'd love to have intel graphics enabled. I have a Lenovo y500 and imo the battery life sucks... I'm in the process of flashing a modded BIOS just so I can see if this is possible (as well as replace my shit wireless card..). You're not wrong though, OEMs do tend to lie about their products just to make more money, but in fairness if you were in their position wouldn't you do the same?Lenovo Y500 owner here. You won't be able to access the iGPU, modded BIOS or otherwise, because of physical limitation. The display outputs are hooked up to the dGPU and there is no mux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morara Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Alienwares can disable their iGPU from Windows with a keyboard shortcut, but for some weird reason no option to do that in the BIOS;But on the other hand they have OCing options in the BIOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chap Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 there is no reason to not use the igpu when idle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H658tu Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 I'm looking to buy a new laptop with some decent hardware, but apparently many, it seems, refuses to allow us to disable the integrated graphics so that we can rely entirely upon our graphics card.You want non-Optimus then; desktop cpu and/or dual gpu systems. Clevo has a few of those. No bios-anything necessary; only the dgpu is used.Understand the issue; it's no fun to rely on software to do proper gpu switching. Games are mostly fine, but arcane software is a pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARTINEZ9000 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 As an Alienware user, we can use integrated graphics by pressings FN+F5 which is I/D GFX or Intel Integrated Graphics. I did check my BIOS and couldn't find it, but maybe i'm not looking hard enough either. But to the point we can switch it on and of with FN+F5 which requires a reboot of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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