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    huge performance increase with 176.02 Clevo drivers!

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by skynetwork, Aug 26, 2008.

  1. skynetwork

    skynetwork Notebook Consultant

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    hay doodz....

    system as shown in my signature....

    with stock 169.xx clevo drivers i peaked out @ about 97xx 3dmark06 but with those new 176.02 clevo drivers i maxed about 800 points!!!! fps in 3dmark06 run almost everything smooth now, peaking out at more than 80fps in some tests.

    i downloaded them @ www.laptopvideo2go.com

    give it a try, they seem to be awesome!
     
    skynetwork, Aug 26, 2008
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  2. baconcow

    baconcow Notebook Consultant

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    I am torn between the stock 176.02 drivers and the 177.79 drivers. The 176.02 seem to throw out better CPU scores in 3DMark06 whereas the 177.79 throw out better SM 2.0 and 3.0 scores. I get 13978 with 177.79 and 13998 with 176.02. Not much difference. With a Q9550, I think the GPU performance would be the largest benefit.
     
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  3. Deathwinger

    Deathwinger Notebook Virtuoso

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    I would think that the real life gaming performance difference would be the deciding factor of which driver to get.

    And not really the performance difference of a program that runs a few high def. videos
     
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    baconcow Notebook Consultant

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    I have not had much of a chance to test the benchmarks of different games, only 3DMark06. Even my Company of Heroes benchmarks are based on rendering videos. 3DMark06 does not just display high-def videos, it does real-time rendering of them.
     
    baconcow, Aug 26, 2008
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