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Does anybody know how to update the Quadro drivers from the Nvidia site. The drivers that Lenovo has up are out of date.
W701CPU Type QuadCore Intel Core i7 Extreme 920XM, 2266 MHz (17 x 133)
Motherboard Name Lenovo ThinkPad W701
Motherboard Chipset Intel Ibex Peak-M QM57, Intel Lynnfield
System Memory 16315 MB (DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM)
BIOS Type Phoenix (04/23/10)
Display:
Graphics Processor Properties:
Video Adapter nVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M
BIOS Version 62.92.B5.00.0B
GPU Code Name G92GLM
PCI Device 10DE-061F / 17AA-214E (Rev A2)
Transistors 754 million
Process Technology 65 nm
Bus Type PCI Express 2.0 x16 @ x16
Memory Size 1 GB
GPU Clock (Geometric Domain) 200 MHz (original: 675 MHz)
GPU Clock (Shader Domain) 400 MHz (original: 1650 MHz)
RAMDAC Clock 400 MHz
Pixel Pipelines 16
TMU Per Pipeline 1
Unified Shaders 128 (v4.0)
DirectX Hardware Support DirectX v10
Pixel Fillrate 3200 MPixel/s
Texel Fillrate 12800 MTexel/s

Memory Bus Properties:
Bus Type GDDR3
Bus Width 256-bit
Real Clock 119 MHz (DDR) (original: 1013 MHz)
Effective Clock 239 MHz
Bandwidth 7648 MB/s

Utilization:
GPU 3%
Memory Controller 8%
Video Engine 0%

nVIDIA ForceWare Clocks:
Level #1 GPU: 200 MHz, Shader: 400 MHz, Memory: 120 MHz
Level #2 GPU: 275 MHz, Shader: 550 MHz, Memory: 301 MHz
Level #3 GPU: 383 MHz, Shader: 767 MHz, Memory: 301 MHz
Level #4 GPU: 675 MHz, Shader: 1650 MHz, Memory: 1013 MHz

Video Adapter NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M (1024 MB)
Video Adapter NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M (1024 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M
Monitor ThinkPad Display 1920x1200 [NoDB]

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Conexant Cx20585 @ Intel Ibex Peak PCH - High Definition Audio Controller

Storage:
IDE Controller Ricoh PCIe Memory Stick Host Controller
Storage Controller Intel(R) ICH8M-E/ICH9M-E/5 Series SATA RAID Controller
Disk Drive Corsair UFD USB Device (30 GB, USB)
Disk Drive OCZ-VERTEX2 (186 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive OCZ-VERTEX2 (186 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GT30N
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 169.8 GB (71.3 GB free)
D: (NTFS) 186.3 GB (166.0 GB free)
Q: (NTFS) 9999 MB (2677 MB free)
Total Size 365.9 GB (239.9 GB free)

Go to the driver section of NVIDIA's site.

Select "Quadro" as the product type, "Quadro FX Series (Notebook)" as the product series, select your operating system and then click search.

when i try to install the drivers from Nvidia's site i get an error mesesge that "The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit."

Try the download type "Quadro Partner Certified Driver" and see if that works.

Are there any benchmarks comparing a 3800 to a 2800?

You can compare the 3800m to a 2700m here

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-Qua ... 058.0.html

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-Qua ... 218.0.html

jketzetera wrote:You can compare the 3800m to a 2700m here

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-Qua ... 058.0.html

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-Qua ... 218.0.html

I think the question is rather how much worse is a Quadro FX2800M than a Quadro FX3800M, respectively whether it is that much weaker or worth the price difference.

Here is the link for the FX 2800M.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-Qua ... 061.0.html

The one you gave is for last generation's 2700 model. It has benchmark numbers but unfortunately, the page for the 2800 doesn't at that site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... ity_Quadro
I'm guessing, based on the number of these "CUDA" parallel processors, 128 vs 96 in the 3800 vs 2800 respectively, 675 vs 500 MHz core clock, 1688 vs 1250 shader clock, and everything else same, the 3800 is about 33-50% faster in most cases.

Is that worth +$500? I would reason that because the 2800 is already a high end card, albeit low in that category, it would well serve all but the most demand graphics artist or CAD operator.

But again, that's a guess based on specs because of lack of hard benchmark numbers.