Quote: Originally Posted by DickNervous This is great and all, but what does it really mean? I mean if my computer uses 100W less power, what is the long term impact? How may kilowats per year will that save me? What is the drawback? I just read some of the article and while it sounds good, I'm not so sure it is going to be good, at least not for the highest end of the GPU spectrum. If the integeated GPU uses system memory for the frame buffer and you have say, 2 8800GTX cards in SLI, that would require 1.5gb (768mb x 2) of system ram just to move the data from the card to the mobo so it can be displayed.

I don't think it would need that much memory at all since the only time the frame buffer would be full would be if you were gaming and you wouldn't be switching to integrated graphics to game. Plus it should only be for a few seconds while it gets transfered and then it just acts like a normal integrated graphics card taking up 128mb (or whatever you set it too).