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    Best driverset for 8400M GS?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Hep!, May 24, 2008.

  1. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    I know the "best" drivers are always changing, and I have yet to swap out my stock drivers on my XPS M1330. What are people using right now?
     
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    sesshomaru Suspended Disbelief!

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    174.74, Vista x64. 3DMard06 OCed = 1718..
     

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    I should have stated, I'm running XP Professional 32 bit
     
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    A 32 bit OS on a 64 bit laptop.... a waste... unless there are some programs that aren't compatible with a 64 bit OS..
     
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    Windows XP X64 is very poor, I've used it in the past.
    Vista will give me a performance drop in games. Seeing as it's only an 8400M GS to start... gonna stick with XP. When I go to 4GB of memory I will switch to Vista Ultimate X64.
     
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    Agreed about the XP part.
    Vista x64, SP1 is worth trying out, though... It is almost at par with XP SP2, as far as benchmarks go... I know, since I have used both...
     
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    I'm running 156.83 right now, not overclocked, my 3dmark score is 1563. I am going to install 174.74 and report.
    Errr, can you give me a link? I can't find it on nVidia's site.
     
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    From my experiences I still stick with the 169.09 drivers... Yes, it is several months old but has given me the highest overclock scores (see sig) of any driver. Also, Rivatuner give me a ~10C lower GPU temperature vs any of the newer drivers (e.g. 174.xx)
     
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    Could I please have links to the suggested drivers? I assume I will have to manually install them via device manager with extracted infs and dlls, correct? This is on my Dell XPS M1330.
     
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    Download them from laptopvideo2go.com . I think for XP, it would be a different version of forceware..

    EDIT: Just to clarify, I am using the XFastest version of the drivers, not laptopvideo2go. Laptopvideo2go lists 169.09 as the latest version for XP 32 bit..
     
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