Thanks AJ
Once i looked at your attached pic i definitely recognised "my" BIOS, but i cannot at this stage remember whether all its settings are still at "Default", or whether the vendor [or i] had changed any of them back in the distant past. I shall boot into BIOS & look into this tomorrow. However...
...<<Rocky, pls don't take offence, i am not doubting you or contradicting you, but instead am trying to make sense of all this mass of bewildering info>> ... AJ, in an earlier post Rocky had said:
Therefore if that is correct, AND if it is "bad" that all this time both GPUs have been enabled (is that bad? does that lead to crashes/freezes?], then shouldn't i disable the "weaker" GPU? If correct (is it?), then that would imply that the Nvidia card should be disabled [or removed, as Rocky had also previously suggested], rather than disabling the Intel GPU. Am i understanding that properly?
I am not a gamer btw, so any loss of 3D acceleration from a gaming perspective would be irrelevant to me... but would it hurt other aspects of my computing experience, unrelated to games?
EDIT: Haha, this time Rocky, in our latest instance of simultaneous replies, you beat me to post first!! :-)
Once i looked at your attached pic i definitely recognised "my" BIOS, but i cannot at this stage remember whether all its settings are still at "Default", or whether the vendor [or i] had changed any of them back in the distant past. I shall boot into BIOS & look into this tomorrow. However...
...<<Rocky, pls don't take offence, i am not doubting you or contradicting you, but instead am trying to make sense of all this mass of bewildering info>> ... AJ, in an earlier post Rocky had said:
Quote:you have Intel Haswell i7-4790, which has an Intel integrated HD 4600 GPU, which is more powerful than the Nvidia GT 610
Therefore if that is correct, AND if it is "bad" that all this time both GPUs have been enabled (is that bad? does that lead to crashes/freezes?], then shouldn't i disable the "weaker" GPU? If correct (is it?), then that would imply that the Nvidia card should be disabled [or removed, as Rocky had also previously suggested], rather than disabling the Intel GPU. Am i understanding that properly?
I am not a gamer btw, so any loss of 3D acceleration from a gaming perspective would be irrelevant to me... but would it hurt other aspects of my computing experience, unrelated to games?
EDIT: Haha, this time Rocky, in our latest instance of simultaneous replies, you beat me to post first!! :-)