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    which driver is better

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by nelso419, Sep 13, 2008.

  1. nelso419

    nelso419 Notebook Enthusiast

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    so which driver is better
    nvidia certified 175.32
    or the hacked driver 177.98 from laptopvideo2go.com
    and thats for 2 8800M GTX's SLI
     
    nelso419, Sep 13, 2008
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  2. KrieGLoCK

    KrieGLoCK Notebook Evangelist

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    certified.
    there is no such thing as a hacked driver.
    its modded.
     
    KrieGLoCK, Sep 13, 2008
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  3. fonduekid

    fonduekid JSUTAONHTERBIRCKINTEHWLAL

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    laptopvideo2go driver' are not 'hacked' per se they are just modded (as is apparent with the 'modded inf's)...

    and for ur question, I would stick with the OEM drivers as long as you dont have any issue
     
    fonduekid, Sep 13, 2008
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  4. THE B1RDMAN

    THE B1RDMAN Notebook Guru

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    Well, the modded drivers are for people like me who don't want to wait for dell to catch up with their own versions of drivers that support laptop cards, so i mod my own drivers from the nvidia site. it is so easy. it takes about a minute, and all i have to do is add two lines to an inf to allow the driver to be installed for my 8600m gt. the only reason i did it was because at the time dell had like a 150 driver and nvidia was already on 170 something, but if the certified is only a driver or two behind, you might want to just stick with that.
     
    THE B1RDMAN, Sep 13, 2008
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