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    P6860FX with P7811FX Nvidia Driver???

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by howard911s, Sep 15, 2008.

  1. howard911s

    howard911s Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Not sure why I did it, but was browsing gateway support page and suddenly had a thought. I have P6860FX with 8800M GTS and driver version 167.46 with video bios version 62.92.1e.00.06. Then i searched and found P7811FX has some drivers listed now, including the 64 bits video driver for 9800M GTS. Out of curiosity, I downloaded and installed it. Shows driver version 176.15 with exactly same video driver bios, system memory and shared memory are all the same as well.

    I understand that my 8800MGTS is pretty much same as the new 9800M GTS with 100mhz slower clock speed. Any idea on what this newer driver would do or change if anything at all...?

    Howard
     
    howard911s, Sep 15, 2008
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    howard911s Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    I was just wanting to get an updated driver for 8800MGTS, but did not want to modify or take the time to modify a driver myself, so just downloaded and installed hoping the 9800M GTS driver from P7811FX would work, easy way to get an updated driver without having to really go through trouble myself.
    Idle temperature is 44C. At height of battle in COD 4 at 1440 x 900 temperature never exceeded 67C. Frame rate seems to have improved, though i did not have a counter, but gameplay is more fluid I can notice.
    When idle, the fan is quieter, probably the new driver does not kick in the fan till higher speed. That's all I can think of for the moment. Any opinion or even educated guess is appreciated.
     
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  3. Tyreck

    Tyreck Notebook Consultant

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    Nividia drivers work for almost any card from like 5000 all the way up to the through and past the 9800's. Just go to laptopvideo2go.com I think thats it.. just search for it on here you'll find a buncha info.
     
    Tyreck, Sep 15, 2008
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    ghost_recon88 Notebook Geek

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    Laptopvideo2go features the latest nVidia desktop drivers, and modded .inf files that allow you to use them on laptop cards. It only takes a sec to mod them and they have a lot better performance then the old, out of date drivers that manufactures give you. Currently the 177.92 drivers are the best (177.98 isn't that hot).
     
    ghost_recon88, Sep 15, 2008
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    madmook Notebook Evangelist

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    I did the same thing. Went from stock drivers to 175.19's to the new 176.15's direct from Gateway, no problems.
     
    madmook, Sep 15, 2008
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    Yup, the video drivers aren't limited to the series of video card.

    It's funny you mention that, I just loaded 177.92 today.
     
    WarlordOne, Sep 15, 2008
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