[Backyard]

O.K Just bought myself a new laptop, stated in topic title above.

O.K My machine rates 4.8 on Vista Ultimate x64 - A Tech Guru fromn the Place from where I bought the Laptop says there is a Driver Tweaking Tool for GeForce 8600M GS on the web which would not overclock my Graphics Card but run it at better performance therefore give me a rating at 5+.

Is there such a Driver/Tool that does this without overclocking?

Cheers
Sean

[Rik]

Perhaps this will help? Tweaking HP Pavilion DV9000 Notebook PC! - nV News Forums

[Taima]

hehe I've been using a pavilion dv 8000 with an ugly ATI Radeon Xpress 200M

[Daveskater]

It may be possible that you can unlock the extra power in your GPU and effectively turn the card into a GT model, but sometimes the extra bits are disabled for a reason. Most of the time a GT chip with damaged processors (tired and can't remember exact name - sorry) will have the damaged bits disabled and sold on as a GS model. Occasionally, though, you will get a perfectly fine chip which has just had parts of it disabled, and you can unlock it with no problems. If you have a damaged chip, though, you will get artifacts (random colours etc on the screen) and it may damage the chip more.

I tried this with my card once but didn't get anything good out of it (framerates were less than before) so disabled them again. The only way to find out if you have a good chip or not is to enable the parts and see if it looks ok. Either way it's a gamble and you can never guarantee anything.