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.

gma-booster

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.

Abe Olandres

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.

https://www.yugatech.com

19 Comments

Jomark Osabel says:

16 years ago

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

16 years ago

Overclocking, a point of no return!
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PitOots says:

16 years ago

laro tayu dota yuga! ;)
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Darren says:

16 years ago

can this help the external VGA card?
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Enteng says:

16 years ago

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 â€“ 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!!!
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Enteng says:

16 years ago

btw, the laptop is presario V3304tu.

:-)
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jhay says:

16 years ago

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

16 years ago

never been a GMA fan…even if its injected with steroids ^__^
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sylv3rblade says:

16 years ago

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

16 years ago

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

Warning: Overclock with care.
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