AMD Volcanic Islands "Hawaii" GPU confirmed

[riderz13371]

Pemalite said:

riderz13371 said:
This is kind of a random question but...my computer has 2 graphics cards (Intel HD 4000 and Nvidia GeForce GT 630M 1 Gb Gddr5) and whenever I play games on my laptop it gets pretty loud. It switches out which graphics card it uses depending on what I'm doing so for instance if I play a game it uses Nvidia but if I'm browsing the internet it uses the Intel one. I was just wondering is it normal for it to be loud when I play games? I assume it's the fans that are hard at work but I get worried and I try not to play for a long time because I feel as if I am harming my computer when doing so.

It's called "Optimus" technology.

Essentially when you are not doing anything demanding it switches to the Intel graphics to save on battery life.

As for the noise, it's perfectly normal, you are not going to reduce the notebooks life, it was designed to handle it.
Heck, if I had it, I would have overclocked the nVidia GPU on top of it. :P

Don't even know how to do that but I read on some sites that it's harmful to overclock on laptops. Gonna try to do a little more research before attempting something like that.