G50vt-X1 GPU: is it GS or GT?

Here's the situation that happened about fifteen minutes ago: I just downloaded the driver for Vista 64bit direct from NVIDIA website. The driver's version is 186.03, which is compatible with my GPU (9800M G T, reported from device manager). I accidentally installed it w/o removing the old driver out first(follow the instruction in Gaming forum), so I rolled back the driver. Before I rolled back the driver, however, I checked device manager again (this was after I installed the new driver), and it said that my GPU was then 9800M G S, which is corresponded to what Best Buy stated about this notebook's specifications. howard911s had already stated (with backup source from GPU-Z) a while ago that X1 came with a 9800M GT in it, but after what had happened to me, I became doubtful now. Is it the new driver's error or the notebook does really have a GS in it??

 

It is a GS strip the heat sink and paste off the gpu and you WILL see G94 on it which is GS and GTS core.

There was another thread on this today. Myne said GS out of the box, drivers later it said GT, i did a wipe today even with the bios edited for gts speeds it currently says GS and when i redo my drivers it will say GT again. I also believe NV flash says GT.

The fact is the hardware is a GS and the reported name means nothing. ALL G50V's came with 9700M GT and ALL G50VT's came with 9800M GS.

GPUZ may report GT as the name but look at the core, GPU-z will still report a G94 core and not a G92, proof there that it is NOT a GT but actually a GS or GTS card!

 

Thank you Clutch. I didn't have time to do an internal cleaning yet, so, until I have read your reply, I have no idea that the heatsink was stripped off.

What's the point of stripping out the heatsink anyway??

PS. If I have some question about X1 on how to manually overclock the GPU, can I PM you directly?

 

You may have mis understood me, if you take the heat sink and paste off the gpu its physically written on the core's thermal interface, what the core is. I took a look at it when changing my stock paste to artic silver 5.

Also to add in addition to GPU-Z reporting the core name, it also reports only 64 shaders meaning once again GS/GTS.

And yeah feel free to pm me for whatever i dont mind, exostensa's guide is alright some info floating around in the "Highest G50VT overclock thread" I have yet to add info to my G50 guide on the matter.

 

dont mean to bump to something unrelated, but what kind of temperature difference did you get between the stock paste and the AC5?