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    8700m Drivers and m1730 questions. Any help is appreciated!

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by NickQ, Apr 1, 2009.

  1. NickQ

    NickQ Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks in advance for any and all help!


    Current Setup: XPS M1730, X9000, 4g DDR2, 640g HD (320 x2 RAID 0), Dual Nvidia 8700GT's (SLI), Vista Ultimate, Ugly Fake Carbon Fiber Case, Obnoxious Red Color Scheme...


    I have the latest 179.48 Nvidia drivers for these cards, but I have heard a lot about custom tweaked drivers from places like Laptopvideo2go, but am clueless as to whether any would work for my setup, and if so whether they would even be worth the trouble.

    Are there any other programs anyone would like to recommend to increase the performance of this machine? The only thing I am using now is nTune for when I OC the GPU's. Is there something better?

    I just don't have the funds to step-up to the 8800 SLI yet, so I am trying to maximize what I have.



    Also, on a side note, based on my system, can any of you gamers recommend any custom in-game graphics settings to run Crysis on, other than just setting everything on Medium.

    Thanks again!!!
     
    NickQ, Apr 1, 2009
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