Asus G1S with Windows XP

I recently dual booted my G1S with XP and Vista. Running 3DMark06 and got a score of 5113 OCing my 8600GT 256MB to 575/775 with NVIDIA Tuner. It was pretty much around a 300 point increase from what I scored on Vista. Thing is, games seem to be running a little slower on XP. The whole reason I installed XP on my laptop was because I heard supposably Windows XP with Service Pack 2 was awesome for gaming (even though it doesn't use DX10). If this is true, then why aren't I seeing an increase on XP then I was on Vista.

Also somethings that I have questions about, since I dual booted, I only had a 200GB 7200RPM, however I switched it out with my 320GB 5400RPM (3 Partitions: 70GB for XP, 70GB for Vista, the rest is storage). Also I haven't downloaded that driver yet for SATA or whatever, when I dual booted I jus changed my IDE setting from Enchanced to Compatible. Do you think my hard drive or that setting is slowing me down? And also what driver do you guys suggest for my card? Right now I have 177.66. Any info would be appreciated

One last thing, why is it that when I try to OC my Videocard any higher than 575,775 (example 600/775), 5 minutes into a game I'll get an error saying my laptop videocard stopped responding, which then I have to restart my computer just for it to work again. I've monitored GPU temperature and it doesn' get that high. The highest I've seen is abou 93C. Thanks!!

 

I have read that SATA Compatible does not really drop performance too much over Enhanced. Also, from personal experience, I have not noticed a sensible improvement when I switched from Compatible to Enhanced on the W7Sg.

So I don't think that your lack of a performance increase is due to the SATA mode. I think it's simply that Vista is getting to be a mature operating system, and runs games as well as XP or better.

As to the overclocking, the temperature is not the only limit that prevents overclocking. For instance, some signal timings may simply be out of the allowed specs with your higher clocks and the card no longer works properly.

 

Thanks for the INFO.

Thing is, I've read posts from people with the same exact model who have OCed there 8600GT alot higher than mine.

 

Well, there may be some issue that you have and that can be solved, but it may also be that your particular card doesn't take as much overclocking as other people's cards. Each GPU core and CPU is different in this way.

 

Actually I just read flipfire's guide to undervolting. ever since I undervolted my CPU now I can OC my GPU to 600/775 without any problems. Which I don't really get since the voltage settings don't deal with GPU.