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    Sony 210M Nvidia Driver?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by falcon26, Nov 17, 2009.

  1. falcon26

    falcon26 Notebook Evangelist

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    Just got my new 14 inch CW Sony. It comes with the Nvidia 210M. Can you download the driver straight from nvidia rather than sony? I tried going to nvidia's website but can't find a driver for the 210M. When I do auto detect it says see sony for a driver....
     
    falcon26, Nov 17, 2009
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  2. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    Unfortunately you have to rely on Sony to release an updated driver... the Sub-System ID for the Sony GT210m is different than the NVidia spec sheet so it's not "officially" supported in the NVidia driver releases. On the white paper for the GT210m it's supposed to be 512MB and the GT230m is supposed to be 1GB of GDDR3 so.... yeah. But the NVidia system tools v6.02 is compatible with the driver stack Sony shipped the notebook with, and in my short experience with this card it overclocks VERY well. I've bumped my clocks on Memory, Core, and Shader all up by around 200Mhz each with no ill effects (except with some emulators, directx content seems unfazed).
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Nov 19, 2009
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