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    Acer Aspire 5920G and 163.75 nVIDIA driver

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Evil Eye, Oct 29, 2007.

  1. Evil Eye

    Evil Eye Notebook Consultant

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    hi guys,
    i updated my nVIDIA driver from 163.44 to 163.75 from laptopvideo2go.com and lost one subscore point in Vista Experience Index


    the graphics score was 4.6 before and now it is 4.5 after updating the driver :(

    how come it decreased? :confused:
    have you faced this kinda situation before? :confused:
     
    Evil Eye, Oct 29, 2007
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  2. Patrick Y.

    Patrick Y. Go Newbs! NBR Reviewer

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    1. First, I recommend you to use 169.01 instead.
    2. Ignore the Windows Experience ratings. They're not accurate at all.
     
    Patrick Y., Oct 29, 2007
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    Absolutely.
     
    nic., Oct 29, 2007
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    Hi did u overclock 169.01 using rivatuner?

    whats the setting? :)
     
    jithin6g, Oct 29, 2007
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    jk1980 Notebook Enthusiast

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    No kidding I'm using the same driver as you and my subscore is 5.3
     
    jk1980, Oct 29, 2007
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  6. Evil Eye

    Evil Eye Notebook Consultant

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    what is the configuration of your laptop?


    @all lol its back to 4.6 when i did "update my score" again

    i will do an update to 169.01 soon

    @Patrick and all thanks for the info guys :)
     
    Evil Eye, Oct 29, 2007
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    Hi Manish,
     
    jk1980, Oct 30, 2007
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    Hi Manish,

    It's just the 2.0 Ghz with a 8600GT no OC. actually it was first around 4.6 - 4.8 (I can't remember) THen after installing the the 163 driver it shot up to 5.3.
     
    jk1980, Oct 30, 2007
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  9. Evil Eye

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    it sounds surprising :eek:
     
    Evil Eye, Oct 31, 2007
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    No suprice here.I also notice that before I flash my V-BIOS.
    New 169.04 Modded driver is superb.It up my index score :D :D
    My 8600M GT is fully OCed using BIOS Flash (GPU:MEM 572:472) & 3DMark06 score is 4160

    AERO INDEX= 169.01- 4.9
    169.04- 5.1
    GAME INDEX= 169.01- 5.3
    169.04- 5.4
     
    bigspin, Oct 31, 2007
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  11. Patrick Y.

    Patrick Y. Go Newbs! NBR Reviewer

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    This may be a stupid question, but doesn't overclocking kill the GPU in a year or two?
     
    Patrick Y., Oct 31, 2007
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    Heat will shorten the life of a part, but nothing lasts forever. If you change your laptop every few years, then you probably aren't fussed about the performance advantage vs product lifetime.
     
    darkspark88, Nov 1, 2007
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  13. Evil Eye

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    i updated to 169.04 too but my base score is still 4.6
    it didn't update :(
     
    Evil Eye, Nov 2, 2007
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    use cooling pad and forget about overheating
     
    borland, Nov 2, 2007
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  15. Patrick Y.

    Patrick Y. Go Newbs! NBR Reviewer

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    hmmmm... click "update my score". It's below the huge 4.6 number.
     
    Patrick Y., Nov 2, 2007
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  16. Evil Eye

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    @patrick yes mate, i did update it after updating the driver, 2 times actually...
    but its still 4.6 :(
     
    Evil Eye, Nov 3, 2007
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    What about Powermizer? There is information about problems with changing power modes for this driver (and newer versions also) on laptopvideo2go site...
     
    errenay, Nov 4, 2007
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  18. Patrick Y.

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    well.... don't worry about it. Let reality justify the performance. ;)
     
    Patrick Y., Nov 4, 2007
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    Patrick Y. Go Newbs! NBR Reviewer

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    I don't know much about powermizer... but I use Acer power management software to manage the power modes; I can easily underclock my GPU.
     
    Patrick Y., Nov 4, 2007
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    Hi all.

    All this (notebook modified nvidia drivers) is new to me. I have the same machine (Acer 5920G with 8600M GT 512MB, and Vista home premium 32bit) i id didnt work to install these modified GPU drivers.

    I tried to install the drivers (downloaded from laptopvideo2go.com) and yes i tried it with the vista 32bits- versions.
    I downloaded the stuff - extracted it to a folder and i clickt on the setup-file in this folder.
    it all failed with 163.67, 163.69, 163.75 by the error message:
    "nvidia setup program was not able to find a driver matching with the hardware".


    so whats wrong? i want to get rid of that stupid acer based nvidi driver 7.15.11.119 (from april 07 muhahaha)

    thx in advance
     
    beatstar, Nov 7, 2007
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  21. Patrick Y.

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    Patrick Y., Nov 7, 2007
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