| Jizz_Beard_thePirate said: Its not dangerous per say but it just creates more heat for your room... I have an old Asus laptop with old nvidia card and I leave it on in "Entertainment mode" Which basically means it can use 75% of GPU and CPU vs high performance mode uses 100% If anything it will decrease the life of your battery but in terms of hardware... Not really since your laptop probably will not use 100% your CPU/GPU all the time... So you can leave it on high performace without damanging all of the parts You can also customize the settings so that if your unplugged, it will switch over to say Balanced Mode but when ur plugged back in... It will automatically switch back to High Performance mode |
Actually, it can cause issues.
nVidia's mobile G8x and G9x GPU's had stupidly high failure rates due to heat and the thermal compound to the point allot of OEM's had to do mass recalls.
With that said, Notebooks are designed to run at a worse case scenario in terms of heat, if it can't manage that, I would be looking for a refund as it's poor engineering otherwise. - Years ago I had a Radeon 9700 Pro Laptop which I had overclocked for years without a single drama. (Even in the hot Australian summers!)
Battery life also isn't something that's going to decrease either just because the GPU will use more power, Batteries have a finite charging cycle, that is a set limit of charging and discharging of stored energy, heck over time it's maximum capacity will decrease even with just pure age, you can't prevent it.
Basically, leave it on a "Balanced" profile, the Notebooks hardware will run at full speed when it's required and throttle itself down when it's not, if you urgently need more battery on the road, turning down the screen brightness and throwing it onto Powersaver will help.
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