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    Does new vbios improves the performance of a graphics card?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by naton, Jul 30, 2010.

  1. naton

    naton Notebook Virtuoso

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    Hi

    i had a chance to play need for speed underground on two different laptops lately; Lenovo n200, and Toshiba Satellite A300. Both laptops had a same configuration; same CPU, same amount of ram, the same intel i965/x3100 GPU, same OS win7 and same GPU driver

    The game was smother on the Toshiba laptop than Lenovo's laptop. The only difference I could notice between the two laptops is video BIOS. The one in the Toshiba is v1478 while the one in Lenovo is v1428.

    So my questions are:
    Does having a newer video BIOS improve the performance of a GPU?
    Do you think that the GPU in the Toshiba laptop is clocked higher than the one in Lenovo?

    thanks.
     
    naton, Jul 30, 2010
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