gak wrote:Here's the thing, and I can only go by what I did. I took the VGA card out and and tried the built in. I got worse performance.
I dunno, I thought not too long ago I kept hearing people complaining about intel graphics. Coupled with my experience that's all I can go on.
@Fan: A nice one
It's a Phanteks. The instructions were awful. But I figured it out and long story short, my CPU is really cool. The case fans are standard Corsair (forgot what model)
The only thing I can think of that causing insufficient 2D performance to run Reason with the iGPU is how you've got the iGPU frequency setup in your BIOS. Like I said on my 2nd Generation i7 2600k which has the Intel 3000 on die GPU my Windows Experience Index figure on Win 7 is 6.5 which is significantly better than your nVidia currently and has been perfectly adequate for any audio application I've been running during the last 4 years up to and including the Reason 8.3 beta.
You should have some kind of utility that came with the motherboard (depending on the MB make) to set the optimum frequency for your iGPU on your system. Mine's set at 1650 which is what the ASUS setup tool decided was the right figure on my MB for the veritable old 2600k, although I do believe on Ivy Bridge and later the iGPU clock is dynamic.
Also check your power saving modes for the iGPU basically you want everything set for perfomance rather than power saving.
Good luck in your quest though as I know these kind of system specific issues can become completely annoying and difficult to solve.
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