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
®
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.