Boost your GPU..

[mctrygve]

Have anyone tried GMABooster (http://www.gmabooster.com/) on the UX?

They say "Offering up to an astonishing 2.4x of extra processing power for Your computer's integrated graphics engine".

[Valnar]

I will try it

Mh i think that Heroes 5 is running a little bit faster now.
Maybe someone makes a gpu mark with the program?

[cimino]

You should keep an eye on your chipset temperature if you use this program or anything else that overclocks graphics. The northbridge in the UX isn't really thermally coupled to the main heatsink/fan. If it goes over about 70 degrees C it probably isn't a good thing.

[golden]

This sounds interesting but will it really help the UX that much so that games that couldn't be ran before can run on it? Or is it just a slight boost so slower games can speed up a bit? I would really like to play Elder Scrolls Oblivion on my UX but I doubt it's possible even with GPUbooster. Is it? How does this work?

[anh]

This utility is useless on UX.
I run GPU-Z and it reports UX GPU is running at 400MHz by default.

[smnc]

Originally Posted by anh

This utility is useless on UX.
I run GPU-Z and it reports UX GPU is running at 400MHz by default.

After reading the FAQ, it looks like this program targets underclocked crippled GMA sytems, and clock them back to 400MHz stock.

The FAQ also claims that GPU-Z does't read the clockspeed right on the 950GMA...

I guess I'll try it with benckmarks...

[enomosiki]

I tried playing Resident Evil 4 (the pre-patched U.S. version with visual enhancements unlike the European version that had its visuals stripped down) on my 490 that Ahn upgraded for me. Without the utility, the framerate was pretty much unbearable, but I definitely felt that the speed has improved after using the utility, to the point where it was almost playable, but not quite.

[smnc]

Okqy, so my test results are in.

It looks like the subjective results of Valnar and enomosiki are about right.

GMABoost makes a slight difference, but nothing like the 2.4x boost the website advertised.

The first screenshot is from before, and the second sreenshot is after.
I only re-ran the video tests, and of course these tests are a long way from definitive, but here ya go.

[darkerx]

Hum...
I'm really surprised... on D2D test I have had a jump from 2400 to 3800...but nothing else...
(seems to me that cmark2004 tests are cpu-dependent a lot (have a U7700 in my 280))

Very interesting indeed, I'll make some more testings

[smnc]

Cmark was all I have installed... maybe I should try 3DMark?