Hi<br><br>On Friday, 13 January 2012, Marc Randolph <<a href="mailto:mrand@pobox.com">mrand@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Another related datapoint: I have a pretty high end Dell Sandy Bridge<br>> laptop with the i7-2720QM and I believe it operates in the same<br>
> manner... HDMI port is driving from an Nvidia video chip while the<br>> built-in screen uses the Intel HD Graphics 3000 that is integrated<br>> into the Intel QM67 chipset that the laptop uses.<br><br>To be pedantic.<br>
<br>The graphic chipset is on the same die as the CPU, it isn't in the controller chipset.<br><br>All new i7-2xxx have a GPU on board. Though you can only use it with the appropriate controller.