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Overclock your Graphics Media Accelerator

I’ve tried playing WarCraft 3 on several netbooks and the graphics wasn’t any good but what can you expect from an Intel GMA 950 chip?

GMA Booster though is promising up to 2.4x better performance by overclocking the embedded graphics chip. Though they say that the GMA950 is actually underclocked what they’re doing is just bumping it up to normal speeds.

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Anyway, I tried it on one of my netbooks and there was some improvements with the benchmarks. FPS on fullscreen texture rendering went up 11.5% which isn’t much. Will need to try other benchmarking tools and run a round of DOTA again.

Do check it out and see if you get better results.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

19 Responses

  1. Avatar for jon jon ' overclocking cpu guide says:

    Love your blog I’m gonna to subscribe

  2. Avatar for w00t w00t says:

    gma booster does not overclock, it will just unlock the 400mhz capability of gma 950.

  3. Avatar for madzman23 madzman23 says:

    Its nice to know that it is possible to play DOTA in netbooks, its the only thing that torn me from laptop to netbook.. hehehe.. :D
    Yeah, it is really nice to know that Sir Abe plays DOTA. I hope you have a PLDT Bnet account. Lets pawned each other up.
    hehehe…

    Please update us about this experiment so that we’ll know if you can comfortably play DOTA in a netbook.
    Interesting post.

  4. Avatar for StarMars StarMars says:

    Nice to know that you play Warcraft III kuya Abe. :)

  5. Avatar for khangkhung khangkhung says:

    I recommend overclocking your Graphx card if one has a very efficient cooling system. In case of laptops, I don’t recommend overclocking.

  6. Avatar for kevinn kevinn says:

    Ugh, Tried this out before. I really hate the 7 day thingy. The developer just want more ad impressions on his site. AdBlock to the rescue!

    Performance gains are little to none on some games, so your mileage may vary greatly.

  7. Avatar for DTA DTA says:

    I couldn’t trust this GMA thingy for gaming that I’d replace it with true gaming notebooks carrying either nVidia or ATI chipsets.

  8. Avatar for Andre Marcelo-Tanner Andre Marcelo-Tanner says:

    wheres the disclaimer, doing this may void your warranty and cause your processor to overheat and be permanently damaged?

  9. Avatar for information information says:

    Overclocking can cause overheating which will start large fires, right?

    Warning: Overclock with care.

  10. Avatar for sylv3rblade sylv3rblade says:

    It’s a novel idea but wouldn’t this be phased out one the GN40 chipset get a much more widespread adoption?

  11. Avatar for Agrimensor Agrimensor says:

    never been a GMA fan…even if its injected with steroids ^__^

  12. Avatar for jhay jhay says:

    I was never really a fan of overclocking, wrecked two good graphics cards because of it. ;)

  13. Avatar for Enteng Enteng says:

    btw, the laptop is presario V3304tu.

    :-)

  14. Avatar for Enteng Enteng says:

    hi abe…

    i need something like this. my laptop only has intel 945 chipset and i can’t use it to play guitar hero (hehehe)…

    is there any way to get it to meet this requirement:

    Video Card: 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required – 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 128 MB Video Memory
    Video Card (ATI): Radeon X800
    Video Card (Nvidia): Geforce 7600

    or have it upgraded?

    thanks and happy easter to all!!!

  15. Avatar for Darren Darren says:

    can this help the external VGA card?

  16. Avatar for PitOots PitOots says:

    laro tayu dota yuga! ;)

  17. Avatar for Mhaki Mhaki says:

    Overclocking, a point of no return!

  18. Avatar for Jomark Osabel Jomark Osabel says:

    Will this shorten the life of a netbook or invalidate its warranty?

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