VIA 4.45 drivers out

[Noid]

go get em..

Gave me a 3dmark boost on my KX7-333

13,648

 

[Mangler]

thanks for the heads up, how big of a boost?

 

[sechs]

Download Mirror

I'd like to see what kind of improvements/changes people are getting on KT333-based boards.

 

[Noid]

around 70

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Noid
around 70

that's obviously completely useless.

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: Noid
around 70

??

I say 9, or how about 666, or 7-11, now theres some numbers for ya :Q

 

[Noid]

stick you comments....

I just thought I'd pass the info along.
The performance benchmarks shown for these drivers are at VIA , on the 400 chipsets.

If my heads up on the new drivers or anyother releases of anything new, is of no
use in these forums, I wont post it here again.

Cheers

 

[PhoenixOfWater]

The VIA drivers are not just for performance it lets the hardware be run better...

Noid - Thank you for the posting
I would have never knowed that there was a updated for the drives

 

[Noid]

You are correct.

Also, my slight performance increase should not be gosple.
(As anyone has a brain to figure out I'm probably only one with results here so far)

Also ... the results post at VIA is on a earlier 9700 driver version.

And... IF I had known the VIA drivers were out. I would have installed them 1st before the new driver release for the 9700.
(I didnt know until after my 9700 drivers were installed)

 

[kursplat]

hey thanks for the mirror sechs. VIA'S site must be getting hammered , real slow.

 

[DoubleL]

When I installed them on a Epox 8K9A2+, Ti4200 I went from 11,5** to 9,9**, I reinstalled them and went to 11,7**, Something didn't go right the first time

 

[Noid]

I also ... did a re-install of the 2.5 drivers for the 9700 using the repair option in the CP setup pgm.

100 point gain now

 

[iwearnosox]

p4x400 MB user here. Had the same effect with my ti4200, got slower and had to reinstall. Once it got fixed:

3dmark 2001 se

Old: 10123
New: 10778
NMT: 11412

NMT= I finally upped the timing on my memory, 400mhz DDR @ cas2.

 

[mechBgon]

For the record, I installed these drivers on my KT333 board and did my usual UT/WinZip compression benchmark, which would reveal mostly whether it's improved the PCI/IDE performance. The compression was a couple seconds longer, out of a total of about 3 minutes, so no real change for my rig in that area.