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    NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160m drivers for gaming?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by qri, Feb 12, 2010.

  1. qri

    qri Newbie

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    I've been reading around and apparently the current 160m driver are meant for business use and not gaming, and that "standard" driver can replace the current driver and increased performance for gaming. However, I have been unable to find out what the "standard" drivers are.

    Can anybody point me to where I would find them? :)
     
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  2. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Laptopvideotogo is where you can download the driver. You need the driver for the 8400m GT (which is the same as your card).

    you will probably not see an increase in performance.

    But here is good news, your GPU is really good for overclocking. You can get a 50%+ OC on the core and memory (if you have the GDDR2 vram).

    Be careful though, your card has a known fault. It's likely to fail eventually unless kept at 60C or less.
     
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    I don't think so. A 50% overclock on DDR2 VRAM is very unlikely. I can hardly get mine past 575 Mhz from the default 500 Mhz without it artifacting.

    If it was GDDR3, it would probably be possible.
     
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  4. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I said GDDR2, not DDR2.

    I had GDDR2 vram, overclocked well. The reason you can get 50% OC is because the GDDR2 vram is likely to be underclocked by 100mhz (was the case on mine, I found the datasheet for the ram).

    There was a thread in the lenovo section where people were getting over 50% OC on the core and mem with their quadro NVS 160m.
     
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    60C or less... lol, that isn't going to happen when gaming bud.
     
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    Oh right, but then again, GDDR2 is pretty crappy memory apparently.
     
    Amnesiac, Feb 13, 2010
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    or at idle, my 8400m idles at 60 and i has done since i got it a year and a half ago
     
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    or at idle, mine has idled at 60 since i got it a year and a half ago

    sorry about the double post i didnt relise it submitted twice my internet crashed in the middle
     
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    Actually I'm wrong. I was thinking of the Quadro NVS 140m with GDDR2 as shown in this thread:
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=284380

    As you can see the vram was taken from 600mhz to 955mhz (ram was actually rated at 700mhz but was underclocked stock).

    I don't think the NVS 160m has the same vram so you wont get the ram even close to that value. But the core should overclock well.
     
    moral hazard, Feb 13, 2010
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