6.2.2Enabling 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.

•Make sure that you have connected your display to the dGPU. Otherwise, the motherboard cannot detect your display and no image appears.

To enable GeForce Boost

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to enter the BIOS Setup Utility.

2.Go to Advanced > Onboard Device Configuration and set the Hybrid Support item to [Enabled]�. See section 4.5.3 Onboard Device

Configuration for details.

• The Hybrid Support item appears only when a minimum of 2GB memory is detected.

•The Hybrid Support item becomes user-configurable only when a dGPU is detected. Make sure that your dGPU is properly installed.

Phoenix-AwardBIOS CMOS Setup Utility

Advanced

 

Onboard Device Configuration

Select Menu

 

 

 

 

 

Item Specific Help

 

 

Hybrid Support

Enabled

 

 

 

iGPU Frame Buffer Control

[Auto]

 

 

 

 

x Frame Buffer Size

128M

 

 

 

Onboard GPU

[Auto]

 

 

 

Primary Display Adapter

[PCI-E]

 

 

 

HD Audio

[Enabled]

 

 

 

Front Panel Support Type

[HD Audio]

 

 

 

HDMI Audio

[Auto]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.Save your changes and Exit Setup.

4.Turn off the system, disconnect your display from the dGPU, and connect your display to the onboard VGA port at the rear panel.

5.Turn on the system. From the Windows® desktop, go to Start > Control Panel > User Accounts and Family Safety to turn off User Account Control.

6.Place the motherboard support DVD into the optical drive, and go to the Drivers menu to install the NVIDIA Chipset Driver Program.

7.Restart the system.

8.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.

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