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    dox or acer, which one is better for 8920?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Playa, Dec 18, 2008.

  1. Playa

    Playa Notebook Geek

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    After i install dox 180.84.1, i saw in my epowermngmt the gpu slider is gone. Is it dox or i have something different? And my gpu clocks stuck at 275/550/200 which is low performance 3d, which should have been 169/300/100 (standard 2d) while i'm not doing anything. My idle gpu temp was 47-53C. Now it's 59-63C. Do i have to go to acer website and d/l the original driver? if yes, will my 8920 get decreased in performance? 10C increase is very considerable... :confused: :confused:
     
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  2. TehSuigi

    TehSuigi Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yeah, using the Dox driver means any Acer modifications to the drivers are gone, like the empowerment slider.
    Then again, ePower is just a front-end for the Vista power management.

    You don't have to go back to the original driver. There's a ton of drivers out there for the 9500M GS - 175.61, a whole bunch of 176 drivers, and the newly-released 179.28 on nvidia.com.
     
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