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    Nvidia Verde BETA Notebook Drivers 301.24 April 9th

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by MrDJ, Apr 9, 2012.

  1. MrDJ

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    I wonder if these have WDDM 1.2 support for those running the win8 CP.

    EDIT: these drivers are witchcraft. I'm running a GTX485M at 675/1500, I got 50-55 fps average on caspian border on the old drivers, now I'm getting 60-70 average. Nice!
     
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  3. MrDJ

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    seems to help mw3,bf3 and skyrim quite a bit from the reports so far.

     
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    Now this is very exciting! New drivers to go along with thew new GTX 6m series. I have to wait till the end of the month to get my Ivy Bridge laptop.... Gr.... These drivers will make gaming + Designing in photoshop a breeze.
     
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    Just thought I'd let everyone know a little tidbit... I tried flashing a 1.03v vBIOS to my GTX485M in the past, but saw no better overclocking and it caused instability issues. After these drivers, for whatever reason, the 1.03v vBIOS is working as planned and I have so far hit 685/1600 when my previous clocks were 675/1500. I will continue to test overclocking and see if I can get it further.

    EDIT: My final clocks are 690/1600 stable with the 1.03v vBIOS. very pleased with performance with these.
     
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    very interesting info indeed! especially since i was playing around with that 1.03v BIOS myself just a few weeks ago and came to the same conclusion@no additional OC potential & instability issues.

    keep us updated! :)

    (hope thats not too much of an OT ^^)

    cheers
     
    jaybee83, Apr 10, 2012
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  7. bonnie.clyde

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    Has anyone had a similar behavior of the GPU with the 301.24 driver (idle)?
    [​IMG]
     
    bonnie.clyde, Apr 11, 2012
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    ?
    how come, im able to do 700/1850 on stock vbios.
    Ive flashed v1.03 this morning and so far with BF3 is stable at 730/1800.

    @bonnie.clyde: nope, but looking at the graphs theres an app that invokes 3d clocks in background.
     
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    You probably just got luckier than me.
     
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    also, it depends how u define "stable". for me, a stable OC has to go through 20 min. of furmark on max. burn-in settings / AA / AF / resolution without any freeze or artifacts whatsoever, and that with a temperature of below 90°C (ideally around 80). of course ud reach much higher clocks with "gaming-stable" testing like with 3DMark or BF3, but i for one prefer maximum stability over a few more frames (especially since ive already had the pleasure of one mobile GPU dying on me before cuz i was content with OC clocks that were "stable" in games but not under furmark ;) )

    aside from that, its of course a given that every single gpu has a slightly different OCing potential, so you can either get lucky or not ^^

    cheers
     
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    True about the furmark thing, but for some reason mine seems like a hard cut off. 690/1600 is the max. It is perfectly stable in furmark and games at that frequency, but if I knock it up anymore it crashes in games and furmark. no gray area.
     
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    Why using furmark with fermi when clearly its a waste of time?
    Due to fermi tech limiting the power draw, furmark could not stress the card that much as used to be with previous gen (and now with Kepler is totally worthless), aside putting too much load on Rams thus generating heat.

    By *stable* I mean run those clocks in 3dmark programs on loop for at least 1 hour, then heaven benchmark and OCCT, the latter at least stresses the card that much with a risk of briking it.

    Then there's both BF3 and Crysis2 which are two games that stresses the gpu with a constant load of 99% on both VPU and VRAM, if the card survives 1 hour I can call it a stable oc :)

    Seriously the furmark thing has been discussed so much in the overclocking scene that is pointless to use with fermi UNLESS you disable fermi power limiter (is possible to do it using OCCT and a little vbios mod) but that also means a chance to smoke vrms due to it (has happened on desktops).

    Then yes, there are cards which are more lucky than others, I guess I have the only 485m which can do 700/1800 on stock vbios :)
     
    Kingpinzero, Apr 12, 2012
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    OMGolf!! These Drivers ROCK! here are my results on heavens benchmark basic 2.5 ( Nvidia 301.24 BETA drivers). Max temperature was 73C:

    [​IMG]

    This was my system when running on the 296.10 whql drivers (which, btw sux):

    [​IMG]

    Which by the way took me to 77C...

    Nvidia give us a very nice surprise this time!! Also, for those who care I'm using a small 15% overclock ^^ from MSI afterburner.
     
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    great news. thank for posting mubay :)
     
    MrDJ, Apr 12, 2012
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    These drivers look very impressive. Just curious, when you guys measure these temps are you allowing the cooling fans to operate normally or are you forcing the Fn+1 max fans?
     
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  16. MrDJ

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    not all laptops have the option to max the fans out. think its only the models in the last year or so that can do that.
     
    MrDJ, Apr 12, 2012
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    my final OC on my 485M was 690/1600, I max out at around 76-77 C in bf3 allowing the dynamic fan control to take care of things.
     
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    GTX580M 740/1700 in Sager NP8150 using Verde 296.10 drivers:

    [​IMG]

    GTX580M 740/1700 in Sager NP8150 using Verde 310.24 drivers:

    [​IMG]

    Nice little bump, but nothing major. Noticed a little temp drop by around 2C in benches and games using verde R300 drivers, though)
     
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    huh, interesting. this is the first time im hearing of this fermi power limitation. is this supposed to be a general limitation or is it specific for furmark? how come then that both furmark and other programs such as HWMonitor and HWInfo all show a 99% usage of the gpu core during stress testing? as far as i know, only alienware laptops have a built-in gpu-limitation when running furmark, thus automatically downclocking all present GPUs whenever furmark is detected.

    cheers

    edit: so i did some benchmarking myself and im having a nice 2.3% score boost across all boards! not bad if u consider this is all the driver! :) this is a good one indeed, keep it up nvidia!
     
    jaybee83, Apr 12, 2012
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