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Was running SW Empire at War just to see what the machine can do. Uses Direct X 9.0c. Running system resource monitors in teh background, i noticed that the processor was set to max the entire session (1.6) which is to be expected, but was a steady 50-60% utilized which surprised me. No peaks, no troughs, just a steady line on the graph.
The graphics were choppy even at the lowest settings which must mean that the bottleneck is the gma950. As in the GPU is running at full throttle, but the Atom only needs 60% load to keep up with its end of things.
Does this sound right to you all? no way to put that extra 40% to good use!
Maybe this GMA Booster application will help you out?
By default the GMA is underclocked but you can reset the clock to the regular speed to reduce the gfx bottleneck.
Give it a try and let me know if it worked for you:
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Maybe this GMA Booster application will help you out?By default the GMA is underclocked but you can reset the clock to the regular speed to reduce the gfx bottleneck.
Give it a try and let me know if it worked for you:
http://www.gmabooster.com/
[/quote1234796237]Hmm, resource sounds very intreging, but both links on the site to download the software are both broken right now. 🙁
I tried GMA Booster. It worked in so much that the application seemed to change something.
However, I’ve no idea how I’d test whether the changes made a difference? They certainly made no difference to the running of World of Warcraft on my NC10.
Yeah i havent used it on any game yet but on some other forum people said that they gained arround 7fps on WoW… dunno how much this actually matters 😉
Here’s my test results running GMA Booster. Not as huge as one might think – there must be a lot of bottlenecks in this netbook. Those with EEE PCs can overclock their Atoms which seems to work much better in conjunction with the graphics boost.
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Here’s my test results running GMA Booster. Not as huge as one might think – there must be a lot of bottlenecks in this netbook. Those with EEE PCs can overclock their Atoms which seems to work much better in conjunction with the graphics boost.
[/quote1235168337]Thanks for posting those test results, looks like it’s less a boost more a nudge huh?
Mostly it shows that there isn’t a whole lot you can do with Intel integrated graphics: they are what they are.
I don’t doubt that setting it back to its standard clock speed can help on occasion, but who knows how common those situations are with the other limitations of the chipset and the rest of the hardware?
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