Is anybody using HybridPower?

[alizee]

Is anybody using HybridPower with their nvidia GPUs and motherboards? I think it may be something that I'm looking at for my next build, and I was wondering if there has been any updates since reviewers took a look at it with the 780a chipset.

Also, I've heard that it may be going away, does anybody know if it works with the GTS 250, GTX 285 or GTX 295? Or, another card that I'm specifically looking at is the 55nm GTX 260. The 260 is specifically listed on nvidia's website, but it doesn't say whether its the 65nm, 55nm or both.

Thanks

 

[nosfe]

the reason why people speculate that it's going the way of the dodo is that nvidia isn't allowed to make chipsets for Core i7 CPU's and because the lastest GPU's from nvidia(gtx 285, gtx 295) don't support hybrid power or so they say

 

[chizow]

Originally posted by: alizee
Also, I've heard that it may be going away, does anybody know if it works with the GTS 250, GTX 285 or GTX 295? Or, another card that I'm specifically looking at is the 55nm GTX 260. The 260 is specifically listed on nvidia's website, but it doesn't say whether its the 65nm, 55nm or both.

Thanks

NV is most likely phasing HybridPower out for those parts because its redundant and unnecessary on the higher-end GT200 parts. Instead of switching to the onboard GPU for low-power state and requiring passthrough and unnecessary external cable complexity, they just designed power throttling features into the GPU itself, which allows it to shut down or cut power to non-essential parts of the GPU while in 2D/low power states.

 

[alizee]

Originally posted by: chizow
NV is most likely phasing HybridPower out for those parts because its redundant and unnecessary on the higher-end GT200 parts. Instead of switching to the onboard GPU for low-power state and requiring passthrough and unnecessary external cable complexity, they just designed power throttling features into the GPU itself, which allows it to shut down or cut power to non-essential parts of the GPU while in 2D/low power states.

I hope this doesn't happen, or maybe they could lower the power of their discreet cards. Looking at idle power in most reviews, it's pretty high for almost every higher end card, at least when compared to integrated chips.

Originally posted by: nosfe
the reason why people speculate that it's going the way of the dodo is that nvidia isn't allowed to make chipsets for Core i7 CPU's...

But HybridPower hasn't been on any chipset for intel's cpus, right?

 

[nosfe]

nope, nvidia chipsets only

 

[alizee]

Originally posted by: nosfe
nope, nvidia chipsets only

For AMD procs, no Intel

 

[nosfe]

yep, only nvidia amd chipsets 😛 , anyway, like i said, the current implementation is dead