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5-2

Chapter 5: NVIDIA

®

Hybrid SLI™ technology support

5.1.2

Enabling GeForce

®

Boost and HybridPower™

Before enabling GeForce Boost and HybridPower, make sure that you have

installed a dGPU recommended for GeForce Boost on your motherboard.

GeForce Boost

1. Turn on the system and press during the Power-On Self-Test (POST)

to enter the BIOS Setup Utility.

2. Go to

Advanced > Chipset and set the Hybrid Support item to [Auto]. See

section

3.4.4 Chipset for details.

The

Hybrid Support item becomes user-configurable only when a dGPU is

detected. Make sure that your dGPU is properly installed.

Phoenix-Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility

Advanced

Chipset

Hybrid Support

[Auto]

iGPU Frame Buffer Control [Auto]

x Frame Buffer Size

128M

Onboard GPU

[Auto]

K8<->NB HT Speed

[Auto]

K8<->NB HT Width

[Auto]

CPU Spread Spectrum

[Disabled]

PCIE Spread Spectrum

[Disabled]

SATA Spread Spectrum

[Disabled]

Primary Display Adapter [PCI-E]

Select Menu

Item Specific Help

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.