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| I also had some problem with with SLI in my m1730. I've got the 8800M SLI card with the X9000 cpu.
SLI didnt work properly. But I think i figure out the problem.
I installed some drivers, 167.51 and 174.82 To test it out, but SLI was just not working.,
the performance was just ridiculous. So after research and almost getting crazy... i did this.....,
1. Disable AgeiaPhysx Card. (go to Device Manager, just disable, you dont have to uninstall)
2. Install drivers. (175.16 or 175.12 I recommend)
3. Restart Machine
4. Enable SLI (Nvidia control panel)... and Restart again.
5. SLI SHOULD BE WORKING GREAT! AFTER THAT.
6. If you see that performance is what you expected , then you can Enable AgeiaPhysx again. (and test SLI again).
8. Should be just fine by now. (SLI + Ageiaphysx).
9. Im getting 55 fps - 60 fps. at the beggining of 3dmark06 test. Without SLI enabled, you get 25 - 28 fps.
10. If SLI, stops to work again (it shouldn't though)... but just do the same thing.. Disable AgeiaPhysx. Enable SLI. RESTART, done.
Conclusion.....
AgeiaPhysx Card must be creating some conflict, since it uses a Pci Express port... same type of port as the video cards.
Im just guessing about the conflict, due my own experimentation. But it finally fixed my problem using the 175.12 Drivers (Forceware). I've put the average scores from
Notebookforum for comparison.
AquaMark 145,564 (avg: 153,102)
3Dmark01: 42259
3Dmark03: 47857
3DMark05: 21181 (avg: 21,042)
3Dmark06 : 14165 (avg: 13,879)
3DMark Vantage: P6495 (avg:7878)
cpu: 9197 (Oced at 3.4Ghz) (avg: 8229)
gpu: 5935 (stock) (avg: 7939)
So I can say now.... the Machine is great.
I hope this will help many, who are frustated with the performance of SLI Setups on DELL laptops M1730.
good luck to all.
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