HP HDX w 8800M GTS - worth upgrading drivers?

I'm not sure if

1. If I upgrade the video drivers there would be a significant performance increase?
2. If I upgrade the video drivers would I have any issues with conflicts and other items not working properly ex media center etc.

I've got an HDX9200 w 8800M GTS 2x120GB in raid 3GB ram and T7500.

I'd have to say I get decent framerate at 1680x1050 even played Crysis at that in DX9 mode with blur off at nearly 30fps.

I'm a desktop guy so not sure whats gonna do what to this laptop hah.

...and the ATi vs NVidia shot lol - I had to get the 8800M GTS cause the ATi was not making me a happy camper.

 

i bought it yesterday, with 2x250gbyte disks, but no raid. Do you know how to enable it?

thanks in adv!

 

I have the hdx 9350EB, crysis played with high specs,not very high.
Installing a game like c&c3 r crysis take about 30min , think the hd is to slow (500gb 5400rpm)

 

Yeah I opted for the 7200rpm drives...

As far as enabling the raid if it did not come that way I don't know does it have the raid controller built in still?

 

Hi coppermine18,
you can check what kind of chipset is installed into your laptop with chiputil.
You should find:
- Intel® 82801H BM I/O controller hub (ICH8M) - AHCI only

Or in your case it's surly this one with raid functionality:
- Intel® 82801H EM I/O controller hub (ICH8M-E) - RAID and AHCI

You may have purchased a show room or testing model.

 

I see:
Memory Controller:
82GM965

I/O Controller:
Intel(R) 82801HB/HR I/O controller hub (ICH8M)

Integrated Graphics:
Intel(R) 965GM Graphics And Memory Controller Hub(GMCH)

So, hdx 9280 el has no raid ???

 

According to Intel no.

For those who are interested by the data sheet here it is:
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/313056.htm

 

incredible
After asus c90s I have bought another bullshxxt note
.... I have to cam back to dell and buy a xps!

 

Yeah that questions was directed at me but not my question hah I did not know the answer ... Thank you

So...

About those nVidia drivers? To upgrade or not to upgrade.


?

 

i bought my HDX 7 days ago..T8300, 8800m GTS, 4Gb ram

i updated the drivers many times from laptopvideo2go...i installed abt 4 different one until i found the 174,74 drivers..they are the best..improved performance a lot in Crysis..right now i m dloading 174.31 as they are WHQL certified..wil post on their performance later..

i definitle would advice u to update them

 

has it caused anything else not to work properly and how did you install?

 

i have tried 3dmark06 with original driver (ho don't remember the version). I got around 7500 points. With last available on laptop2go I got 7200 points.


What is your score?

To me it seems not so differend than 8700m ... I was thinking somehow better on 8800

 

I got 7634 first run on this one here is the compare link plus the basis results

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=5588775

General information
Operating system Microsoft Windows Vista
System type 32-bit
Motherboard manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
Motherboard model 30E2
Hard drive model Hitachi HTS722012K9SA00
Memory 3072 MB
Slot 1 2048 MB
Slot 2 1024 MB
Slot 3 Empty
Slot 4 Empty
Processor information
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo T7500
Processor clock 2195 MHz
Physical / logical processors 1 / 2
Multicore 2 Processor Cores
FSB 200 MHz
Display information
Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS
Graphics card vendor Nvidia Corp
Graphics memory 512.0
Core clock 0.0
Memory clock 0.0
Driver name NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS
Driver version 7.15.11.6753
Driver status WHQL - Not FM Approved
Linked display adapters No
Result details
Benchmark settings
Program Version 3DMark06 Revision 1 Build 0
Resolution 1280x1024
Full Screen Anti-Aliasing None
Texture Filtering Optimal
Vertex Shader Profile 3_0
Pixel Shader Profile 3_0
Force Full Precision No
Disable Post-processing No
Force Software Vertex Shaders No
Force Software FP Filtering No
Disable Harware Shadow Mapping No
Colour Mipmaps No
Repeat Count Off
Fixed Framerate Off
Main test results
3DMark Score 7634 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 3479
SM 3.0 Score 3319
CPU Score 1938
Test Results
Graphics Tests
1 - Return to Proxycon 27.82 FPS
2 - Firefly Forest 30.17 FPS
CPU Tests
CPU1 - Red Valley 0.61 FPS
CPU2 - Red Valley 0.98 FPS
HDR Tests
1 - Canyon Flight (SM 3.0) 29.54 FPS
2 - Deep Freeze (SM 3.0) 36.84 FPS
Feature Tests
Fill Rate - Single Texturing N/A
Fill Rate - Multi Texturing N/A
Pixel Shader N/A
Vertex Shader - Simple N/A
Vertex Shader - Complex N/A
Shader Particles (SM 3.0) N/A
Perlin Noise (SM 3.0) N/A
Batch Tests
8 Triangles N/A
32 Triangles N/A
128 Triangles N/A
512 Triangles N/A
2048 Triangles N/A
32768 Triangles N/A

 

You always want to keep your drivers up to date, especially the graphics card. There are new drivers coming out monthly (sometimes every other month), but they fix issues and sometimes can help performance. If you do notice that an updated driver is giving you problems (which with Nvidia it rarely will), then all you have to do is reinstall the previous drivers.

Another note worth mentioning for all those people that like to keep their drivers up to date, HP's website is not kept up to date with the latest drivers, so you'll have to go and get them from the manufacturer's website yourself.

 

Yeah - I always update my drivers I just read the warning when on nVidias website about installing updates and that causing problems with my laptop due to all the media features/integration etc.

I was like woooahhhh I dunno about this.

 

nope no problems at all with any thing else...no over heating and no devices stopped working...i got them from laptopvideo2go.com....

 

I upgraded to the 174.74 and 3Dmark 7720

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=6034555