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    Graphics Card of Studio XPS 16

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by bloodyredd, Sep 25, 2010.

  1. bloodyredd

    bloodyredd Notebook Enthusiast

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    Can I replace the graphcis of Studio XPS 16? Cause I would want to replace it if I can since I'd like to replace it with the new Nvidia.
     
    bloodyredd, Sep 25, 2010
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    Gloomy Notebook Evangelist

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    ...why NVidia? I love the green giant as much as the next guy, but the only thing they've succeeded at recently is approximating the surface of the sun in degrees Celsius.

    It'd be a different story in machines built around Optimus, but the SXPS 16 was never that.

    At any rate, no, you cannot replace the SXPS16 GPU-- it's built onto the motherboard.//
     
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    anodize Notebook Deity

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    This.

    Btw, where's your avatar from? :)
     
    anodize, Sep 25, 2010
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    Awww ok. I just want to try replacing it. What's Optimus btw?
     
    bloodyredd, Sep 25, 2010
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  5. Gloomy

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    A manga called Cloth Road (クラスロオド ;). It's about designers and models who partake in deathmatches to prove they're chic.

    It makes more sense in context. Maybe.

    It's a technology by Nvidia that allows dynamic switching between Intel's on-chip graphics solution (low power, low performance, save battery) and Nvidia's discrete graphics card (high power, high performance, waste battery). Basically it allows you to save energy when you don't need the graphics card, by turning it off and instead using the IGP. It's very neat.
     
    Gloomy, Sep 25, 2010
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