Hello Everybody,
I've recently received MSI Wind netbook. For those who don't know, this 10" device comes with a 'Turbo' button that pushes Atom CPU to 2000MHz (+24%) by overclocking the FSB from 533 to 667 MHz.
Extra power really makes the difference, especially when watching H.264 videos (would you believe this, even some 1080p are watchable at 2000MHz).
Needeless to say, my netbook comes with a crappy Intel GMA 950 graphics (found in the majority of netbooks out there, am I correct?).
Inspired by an idea of overclocking, I downloaded the GMA Booster tool (I actually knew of it for a while, even saw it on my friends netbook, but I haven't had my own device to test it). Latest version of this GMA Booster manages GMA 950 speed automatically by tying it to active Windows 7 power plan (well, I deleted XP 1 day after purchasing my netbook and have been playing with 7 beta all the time
).
So... the issue is that on netbooks GMA 950 cannot go above 166 MHz (for thermal reasons?). However GMA 950 can work at much higher speed by design. GMA Booster tool somehow unlocks the possibility to set 250 MHz (as in "big" notebooks) and even 400 MHz (as on desktop boards). This is how it works (screenshots are from gmabooster.com - I'm too lazy to make my own):
Pals, I'm not asking any questions, just want to let everybody know that the possibility to alter GMA speed and speed up shader-based EVR video playback do exist. Yeah, I don't believe in 3D on netbooks... That's why I'm talking about video only (however, I did notice some extra FPS in my favorite casual games). And yes, there has already been a talk that GMA OCing is totally worthless. I would disagree, as the increase of speed is there. On my black MSI baby, a least
I've recently received MSI Wind netbook. For those who don't know, this 10" device comes with a 'Turbo' button that pushes Atom CPU to 2000MHz (+24%) by overclocking the FSB from 533 to 667 MHz.
Extra power really makes the difference, especially when watching H.264 videos (would you believe this, even some 1080p are watchable at 2000MHz).Needeless to say, my netbook comes with a crappy Intel GMA 950 graphics (found in the majority of netbooks out there, am I correct?).
Inspired by an idea of overclocking, I downloaded the GMA Booster tool (I actually knew of it for a while, even saw it on my friends netbook, but I haven't had my own device to test it). Latest version of this GMA Booster manages GMA 950 speed automatically by tying it to active Windows 7 power plan (well, I deleted XP 1 day after purchasing my netbook and have been playing with 7 beta all the time
).So... the issue is that on netbooks GMA 950 cannot go above 166 MHz (for thermal reasons?). However GMA 950 can work at much higher speed by design. GMA Booster tool somehow unlocks the possibility to set 250 MHz (as in "big" notebooks) and even 400 MHz (as on desktop boards). This is how it works (screenshots are from gmabooster.com - I'm too lazy to make my own):
Pals, I'm not asking any questions, just want to let everybody know that the possibility to alter GMA speed and speed up shader-based EVR video playback do exist. Yeah, I don't believe in 3D on netbooks... That's why I'm talking about video only (however, I did notice some extra FPS in my favorite casual games). And yes, there has already been a talk that GMA OCing is totally worthless. I would disagree, as the increase of speed is there. On my black MSI baby, a least
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