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New NVIDIA MCP79 Chipset Driver for the M17x R1 only.

post #1 of 4
6/29/10 at 9:16am
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A new chipset driver was posted on Dells site for the M17x R1.

MCP79 V15.57 A02. Released 6.28.2010

Fixes

improved Sata Performance.

I ran HDTune on my SSD and 500 Gb 7200 RPM drive before and after installing this driver.

Bottom line my SSD driver perfromance dropped by upto 75 %

The standard drive results were pretty much the same.

Looks like this new driver is a no go, if your using a Solid State Drive, or plan to.

HDTune benchmarks attached.
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post #2 of 4
6/29/10 at 2:00pm
Scary

cheers ...
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post #3 of 4
6/29/10 at 2:56pm
Yikes, I assume the standard Windows drivers makes it go back to normal.
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post #4 of 4
6/29/10 at 5:29pm
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yes I had to revert the IDE device driver to Windows default
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