![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I have yet to be able to find a way to use the 9400M chip as the graphics output, or get Windows to even acknowledge its presence as more than a simple IO chipset.Īll that aside, Nvidia's Windows drivers include performance tools that allow for system overclocking, particularly in the areas of GPU performance, but also with some RAM and CPU options as well. What David Iwanicki said doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, as from what I can tell, regardless of your power options under OS X, once you're in Windows, it defaults to the discrete GPU anyway. If you haven't done that already, then that's probably causing hardware throttling issues that would limit performance. The Boot Camp drivers for Windows have very poor (read: almost nonexistent) thermal management, so they will happily let your hardware get up to a toasty 100+˚C before intervening. That is, if you manually set your fans with SMC Fan Control at or close to max speed under OS X before rebooting into Windows, which you always should do if you plan on stressing the system with games. That said, there isn't a whole lot of room for performance gains here, as under full load with fans blaring at full speed (6k rpm) your GPU will likely be running in the neighborhood of 75˚C (conservative estimate). Since this is a 17" Unibody MacBook Pro, it has an Nvidia GPU so unfortunately, Asle's suggestion to use ATi software would likely be useless here. ![]()
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