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GL551JW can Nvidia GForce be the default instead of Intel?

jdborges
Level 7
As the title states: can the Nvidia card be the default GPU instead of Intel for everything?
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InfernoStorm
Level 10
For all laptops that have both onboard and dedicated graphics card, the reason why your onboard graphics is the default is because for non-graphic intensive tasks it wastes a lot more power to use the dedicated graphics cards so by default you only need your onboard graphics card for the light things. For all graphic intensive tasks like gaming then the system automatically switches to the dedicated graphics card.

You can go into the Nvidia control panel and set which programs should be high performance which forces the dedicated graphics to be switched on for those programs once the program is started up. By default for anything that is graphic intensive should already be recognized automatically so really this isn't really necessary.

If this is not what you're asking about then you definitely need to do a better job explaining your question before you can get the correct answer you're looking for.

InfernoStorm wrote:
For all laptops that have both onboard and dedicated graphics card, the reason why your onboard graphics is the default is because for non-graphic intensive tasks it wastes a lot more power to use the dedicated graphics cards so by default you only need your onboard graphics card for the light things. For all graphic intensive tasks like gaming then the system automatically switches to the dedicated graphics card.

You can go into the Nvidia control panel and set which programs should be high performance which forces the dedicated graphics to be switched on for those programs once the program is started up. By default for anything that is graphic intensive should already be recognized automatically so really this isn't really necessary.

If this is not what you're asking about then you definitely need to do a better job explaining your question before you can get the correct answer you're looking for.


Hey men, I just got ASUS G552VW, and I really wanna turn off my onboard graphics card, cuz I can't install Linux when it's on. But I don't have option in BIOS to turn it off. Any help?