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    Dell XPS M1730 WoW Edition question

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Nethfel, Dec 15, 2009.

  1. Nethfel

    Nethfel Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all,

    I got one of these units for my wife for christmas (used of course) - it came with the SLI 8700m GT GPUs (yeah, not the top of the line, but considering these laptops are hard to come by with the ideal config, and I lost out on the one I really wanted to get).

    I'm just now completing a reinstall of the OS, drivers, etc. (I never trust a used machine fully installed and configured) - the system came with 156.17 drivers, I know these are way ancient. Dells driver download is 176.78 (along with a bios update for the GPUs)

    Is this version decent, or is there a newer one I should be getting? I noticed at laptopvideo2go there's 195.81 which is supposed to be about as current as one can get, but I don't know if it's a good driver for this GPU set. I really want to have her have the best performance possible with these cards until I can afford to get an upgrade on them (I know I can get an 8800sli board and a 9800 sli board for this laptop) I ran a 3dMark with the existing drivers for humor sake with the board set in single gpu mode, and got a pitiful 3600 (something has to be wrong somewhere)...

    Any tips to tweak this puppy out, I'd be most appreciative!

    edit: Update - I updated to the latest dell drivers (176.78) and the bios update from Dell, it did improve my numbers a bit - ~5200 single gpu, ~8900 SLI, which is a much more appropriate score for the dual gpu, but I am curious if I could push a bit more performance out of it, and if it would be wise to update to the 195.81 laptopvideo2go driver.... Suggestions and comments still welcome :)
     
    Nethfel, Dec 15, 2009
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