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    Intel Integrated Card-ANy hope?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by wizo, Aug 20, 2008.

  1. wizo

    wizo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Alright- I sent back a Vaio 139e/h that had a ATI Radeon card that I really miss now. My windows index expierence score was a 4.6 on that unit.

    I have now a Vaio 170j/w that has:Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD with Intel® Clear Video Technology
    Problem is my index score is a 3.8 because of the card. I understand that it is integrated but is there anything i can do to optimize my system a little bit/?

    Your feed back and answers are appreciated.
     
    wizo, Aug 20, 2008
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  2. Akuma

    Akuma Notebook Evangelist

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    You can try better drivers and maybe overclock. Not sure if you can OC intergrated card like that though.

    Why do you care about index score anyway?
     
    Akuma, Aug 20, 2008
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  3. Satyrion

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    It is close to impossible to OC a intel card. You have to go past some major bios security stuff for that i think.

    There is nothing you can do to optimize the card ecept getting new drivers, but there are many things you can do to opimize games.
     
    Satyrion, Aug 20, 2008
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  4. wizo

    wizo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well I care becauese my Tosishba I bought 5 years ago fiinally took a blue screen plunge. I went to bestbuy since I have a card and they offer no interest so I can pay it off in 3 months intead of right away. I wanted something different and did not want to pay more than 1400.00. So the Sony in my opinion after speaking to them in store for an hour was the best buy. THey sell their computer using the index score to show you the total performance of their units to compare. The 139e/h had a very high score at 4.6 which was impressive and why i made my oringinal decision. I got the 170 thinking it would be faster and better but it says 3.8 instead. That is my reasoning behind it.

    Thanks
     
    wizo, Aug 20, 2008
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  5. Satyrion

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    Sony is an expensive brand, if u want a laptop for 1400 bucks you can get one with 8800 GTS which is like 50 times better than the x4500
     
    Satyrion, Aug 20, 2008
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    WEI score is crap dont trust it all. Besides with that Intel IGP you wont able to play any modern games even OC the card wont help much though
     
    KING19, Aug 20, 2008
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