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Turning off integrated video on an intel cpu

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Whilst looking through the bios i found a setting where you could turn off the hd intel video. Now im not going to do this just incase my gpu ever decides to stop working but if you turned it off would it reduce temps in any way or provide any sort of benefit?

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not really if you stop using it, it should just be idle all the time so it might increase temps but not but a factor you would notice.

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not really if you stop using it, it should just be idle all the time so it might increase temps but not but a factor you would notice.

mm thats what i was thinking or maybe when you use a discrete gpu it recognizes and disables it or something

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If you do turn it off and your main GPU dies then you can always turn it back on. If for whatever reason you can't get video output at all because it just doesn't turn on the iGPU instead of waiting until it doesn't see the dedicated GPU then just do a CMOS flash to reset the bios to default settings and you'll be set.

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on my system, when I have the integrated gpu on, my comp takes significantly longer to start up.  I'm talking 3-4x longer.  Idk if its my specific system, a Gigabyte thing, or maybe a Win 8.1 thing...   It started up fine when I didn't have a gfx card in and was actually using the integrated gpu, just with a discrete card and integrated gpu on.

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The iGPU is turned off automatically when you're not using it. So no need to touch this bios setting. I guess, if you select disbabled, it will prevent the iGPU from working no matter what. So no need for that I think.

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The iGPU is turned off automatically when you're not using it. So no need to touch this bios setting. I guess, if you select disbabled, it will prevent the iGPU from working no matter what. So no need for that I think.

 

thats not true.  It wasn't on my Gigabyte board.  Seeing as the OP also has a Gigabyte it may also be the case for him

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thats not true. It wasn't on my Gigabyte board. Seeing as the OP also has a Gigabyte it may also be the case for him

Well, that's what I've been told by the Intel support themselves. So I doubt this would be untrue. What suggested you that your igpu isn't off when no display cable is plugged to your motherboard?
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Well, that's what I've been told by the Intel support themselves. So I doubt this would be untrue. What suggested you that your igpu isn't off when no display cable is plugged to your motherboard?

 

the iGPU was showing up as an option in GPU-Z which prompted me to check the setting in the BIOS and it was turned on.  I turned it off and my PC started booting faster and the option went away in GPU-Z.  Then I reset the BIOS to defaults just to see if that was really the case, and that turned on the iGPU again.

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the iGPU was showing up as an option in GPU-Z which prompted me to check the setting in the BIOS and it was turned on. I turned it off and my PC started booting faster and the option went away in GPU-Z. Then I reset the BIOS to defaults just to see if that was really the case, and that turned on the iGPU again.

Are you using virtual mvp technology or do you have any special intel igpu openCL drivers installed?
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Are you using virtual mvp technology or do you have any special intel igpu openCL drivers installed?

 

nope

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nope

Looks like you're right then. Gigabyte boards seem different from the rest.
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If your GPU stops working the generic graphics accelerator will kick in at very terrible resolution but it will kick in....at least on Nvidia's GPUs. You can turn it off if you want but it does not reduce temperatures though.

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You can always clear the CMOS the restore that setting to stock (ie re-enabling it).

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