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Switch from nvidia card to intel graphics for power saving?

Cru54d3r

Cru54d3r

Cru54d3r

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Hi,

Can anyone tell me if there is anyway to easily switch between my graphics card (currently a nvidia 970 - consumes roughly 76w idling) and the integrated gpu with my processor (currently an intel 6700k)? I appreciate this will require me to move the displayport cable over myself.

I'm thinking the vast majority of the time I'm not doing anything processor intensive and I'd like to reduce my power consumption and switch to the intel hd graphics when im just browsing, running plex, etc

Can someone point me to anything that might help with this? Or would I have to unplug/unseat my nvidia card in order to switch it off? Hoping there might be some way to stick it in to some suspend mode/power saving mode

Thanks!
 
You'll have to change the option in bios as far as I know. You could always under clock/volt your GPU

I personally wouldn't worry about a few pennies per day.
 
76w gpu idling power req is roughly 22p a day (24hours on) that £6 a month for something I am not really using. I'll keep in mind the under/clock volt.. guess i could just set two different profiles (low use/gaming) within afterburner.. hadnt though of that.. thanks!
 
I was just going to say that it sounds like total system power draw because my whole pc including all the extras for watercooling only pulls 88w at the wall when idling/browsing the net.
 
AMD cards can use the iChill feature to lower the gpu when you don't need to use it fully. Not sure how to do simiar with Nvidia though.
 
Cru54d3r said:
76w gpu idling power req is roughly 22p a day (24hours on) that £6 a month for something I am not really using. I'll keep in mind the under/clock volt.. guess i could just set two different profiles (low use/gaming) within afterburner.. hadnt though of that.. thanks!
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Remember when one my old water cooled SLI PC systems used over 300watts at idle (over 800w under load) and was on 24/7...:o
 
They are very reasonable at idle. Make sure it's set at the power efficient settings and it'll be fine.
 
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