Disable laptop integrated graphics?

[aeroencychris]

Hi,

I've had my HP Pavillion dv6 laptop (see specs in my signature below) for about 3 years now, and over time it's gotten pretty bad temperature wise. Temps easily get to 95-100 degrees while gaming (even light stuff like TF2) and even idle can be ~60 degrees. The interesting thing about this laptop is that is uses both the dedicated GT 650M and the integrated graphics in the i7 CPU. To use the NVIDIA card, you have to manually tell each application (or try to use global mode that never works) to run using the NVIDIA GPU. I was wondering, since the i7 still has to run Windows itself using the integrated graphics, if it would reduce the load on the CPU (and therefore temps) if I were to run purely off of the 650M. If so, how would I go about doing this? There's no option in the BIOS or anything. Before you suggest a laptop cooling pad, I had one, just broke yesterday. Worked pretty well but not worth buying another considering I'll be upgrading soon. So, thoughts?

 

Thanks,

-Chris

[Oshino Shinobu]

Disabling the iGPU can cause some issues on laptops. A lot of the time there isn't a way to disable it in the first place. You should be able to set Windows to use the dedicated CPU as default, but some things are bound to run off the iGPU. I tried disabling mine at one point and it caused no end of issues. 

 

If you really want to, you can uninstall the driver for the iGPU so it can't be used. 

[aeroencychris]

Disabling the iGPU can cause some issues on laptops. A lot of the time there isn't a way to disable it in the first place. You should be able to set Windows to use the dedicated CPU as default, but some things are bound to run off the iGPU. I tried disabling mine at one point and it caused no end of issues. 

 

If you really want to, you can uninstall the driver for the iGPU so it can't be used. 

*sigh*

okay, I guess I'll deal with console FPS rates until I can (hopefully) build my new desktop.

[Opask]

*sigh*

okay, I guess I'll deal with console FPS rates until I can (hopefully) build my new desktop.

Maybe try cleaning the dust out of it.

 

After 3 years its bound to be clogged.

[aeroencychris]

I'm a little scared to open my laptop, last time I did was with someone who knew what they were doing when we replaced thermal paste. Looked like a pretty scary process.