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post #1 of 8
8/13/10 at 8:33pm
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Hello all,

I bought an M17x R1 about a year ago. It has the dual 280M's. When I bought the computer it was originally windows vista 64 bit. I just recently got around to putting Windows 7 on it and I just put the original drivers on.

Everything is good and dandy. Except that I think that the computer is only using 1 GPU. I have noticed while playing SCII that only one GPU is heating up. The one 280M goes to about 70C while the other stays around 50C. The 9400M also goes to about 80 which I thought was odd. considering that it isnt doing anything. Right?

When I installed the newest graphics drivers both 280M's got hotter but whenever the 9400M hit about 80-81C my screen would just go black or the game would totally lock up. I looked on Nvidia's website to check the supported drivers and it said that systems with Intel Hybrid Power are not supported. Well that's what I have.

I have gone back to the old drivers and everything is fine and dandy again except that its only using 1 GPU.

Any Ideas? I apologize that this is kind of rambling And thank everyone for taking the time to help me out.
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post #2 of 8
8/13/10 at 10:32pm
do you have Sli enabled ?

Control Panel > NVIDIA panel > Set Sli option ?
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post #3 of 8
8/14/10 at 12:38am
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Yes SLI is enabled.

I attached a shot of the temps my computer is hitting. This was after a couple games of SCII
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post #4 of 8
8/14/10 at 8:39am
I read somewhere that by tweaking Documents\StarCraft II Beta\variables.txt file and add these lines:

- frameratecapglue=30

- frameratecap=60

would reduce the overheating issue. Give it a shot.

cheers ...
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post #5 of 8
8/14/10 at 9:34pm
have you seen this info from Blizzard

Certain screens make your hardware work pretty hard.

Screens that are light on detail may make your system overheat if cooling is overall insufficient. This is because the game has nothing to do so it is primarily just working on drawing the screen very quickly.

A temporary workaround is to go to your Documents\StarCraft II\variables.txt file and add these lines:

frameratecapglue=30
frameratecap=60

You may replace these numbers if you want to.
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post #6 of 8
8/15/10 at 12:03am
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No I did not see that. Thank you very much. I will throw those lines in. I will load the latest drivers (258.96).

So that's my next question. Can I use 258.96? The supported products page says:

The following are not supported in this release:

- Hybrid Power technology with Intel chipsets.

Isnt that what My computer has? In that case would the last drivers I could use be 185.85?

Thanks for all the help guys.

Also does anyone know what safe heat for these cards would be? I have looked around but I haven't found any numbers.
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post #7 of 8
8/15/10 at 6:02pm
How about just pick up the available driver from your hive? That would be a good place to start.

Normal operating for graphic cards can hover between 60C to 130C (?) (pushing it in at the max range of course). I would personally fret at around 90C

cheers ...
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post #8 of 8
8/15/10 at 10:40pm
i am usig them, and I believe everything woks fine.
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