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Chapter 5 – Asus M4N98TD EVO User Manual

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Chapter 5: NVIDIA

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SLI™ technology support

Chapter 5

3.

Save your changes and Exit Setup.

4.

Place the motherboard support DVD into the optical drive, and go to the Drivers menu

to install the NVIDIA Chipset Driver Program.

5.

Restart the system.

6.

If the driver is correctly installed, you will find the

Hybrid SLI icon on the taskbar.

The Hybrid SLI icon indicates that the system is

in Performance mode and that GeForce Boost is

enabled. The onboard GPU will share the rendering

load with the dGPU and boost the performance of the

dGPU.

Visit www.asus.com for the latest chipset driver.

To enable HybridPower

1.

Follow Step 1 to 5 on the previous page to complete the hardware and driver

installation.

2.

If the driver is correctly installed, you will find the

Hybrid SLI icon on the taskbar.

The Hybrid SLI icon indicates that the system is in Performance mode and that

rendering is being done by the dGPU. The mGPU is being used only to drive the

display.

3.

Click the Hybrid SLI icon and select Save Power.

4.

The icon will change state (from to ) to indicate

that the system is in Power Saving mode, which

means that the dGPU is turned off and the mGPU is

both rendering and displaying.

5.

When the Power Saving mode is enabled, the dGPU does not show in the Windows

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Device Manager.

Power Saving mode is disabled.

When the Power Saving mode is enabled, the dGPU is

turned off and does not appear in the Device Manager.