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    How Swtich between Dedicated Gpu & Intel Gpu on Titan gt80s sli

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by muhd86, Nov 18, 2016.

  1. muhd86

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    hello ,

    does the msi gt80s have switchanle graphics such as in the alienware 18 , can i move between the dedicated sli gpus and the intel gpus .

    How does it work , I cant seem to find any key or button which will allow me to switch the gpus .
     
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    Sorry, MSI removed the MUX switch in the GT80S Skylake models, so you can only run dGPU.

    The GT80 had the MUX switch through the Haswell and Broadwell CPU models.

    The GT73VR has the MUX switch, but IDK about the GT83VR...
     
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    thanks so this means to save battery life i can not swtich to the intel gpu ---lolll i wonder why this is ...guys also wanted to know down the line can i use an external gpu via the thunderbolt port .
     
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    It's up to the maker of the eGPU box to make it compatible with MSI - maybe working with MSI.

    I really wouldn't count on any of these eGPU things working 100% down the road.

    Get the vendor matching support - Razer, AW, etc, to make sure you have the best shot at it working long term.

    Besides, a high end SLI laptop should play games just fine for a few years at least. By then you will want something else, if you can wait that long to upgrade ;)

    IDK, I never really expected my GT80 to be run on battery, except to move from AC plug to another AC plug.

    I rarely use battery iGPU mode.

    My other laptops have been dGPU only as well, and I was just fine with it.

    If you need a long lasting laptop on battery, buy another laptop to do that for you.

    High end gaming laptops, the real high end ones, are all dGPU only, and rightly so :)
     
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    Not sure why they removed it. Maybe the owner's base was small and hardly used the feature? Who knows. I have only used it a couple of time in almost 2 years of use. And in such cases it only gave me about 40 mins more battery tops haha.

    Anyways in my case I hardly use igpu, I focus entirely on dgpu. In the rare cases I do disconnect my laptop, I almost always am doing very light work, to the point the dgpu is not the issue but the constant CPU use I have. I end up eating my battery with several videos, chrome tabs etc, so I use my battery sort of like an emergency UPS haha.
     
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