- Joined
- Apr 29, 2008
- Location
- Rimouski, Quebec, Canada
There's about 10 sites out there that have said, every month of 2008 up to about April, that "this summer" we will see nVidia mobo designs for INTEL chipsets (for AMD they already exist) that are compatible and work with a GeForce card with HybridPower (models 9800 up to GTX 280). HybridPower allows the user to flip a program's switch, telling the system to turn off your GPU when not in need of it for some insane 3d game, instead using the mobo's integrated graphics (i.e. when looking at HD, playing Starcraft 2, ordinary non-neede stuff).
It's nearly freakin' snowing by now!
Each time I think I have all the angles cornered on my first computer buy (others where gifts for studies), something new comes up. I started looking at the beginning of 2008, and it's nearly the end now, and new stuff keeps coming to the fore about the hardware I want to buy: GPU fan too noisy, Northbridge fan is noise tornado, no current Intel mobos support HybridPower to turn off that pesky GPU when not in use, etc etc. ARGHHH!
It's nearly freakin' snowing by now!
Each time I think I have all the angles cornered on my first computer buy (others where gifts for studies), something new comes up. I started looking at the beginning of 2008, and it's nearly the end now, and new stuff keeps coming to the fore about the hardware I want to buy: GPU fan too noisy, Northbridge fan is noise tornado, no current Intel mobos support HybridPower to turn off that pesky GPU when not in use, etc etc. ARGHHH!