nVIDIA vs ASUS drivers for GeForce 980M

[pokerface]

I know from the past the mods here always recommend sticking to the ASUS Drivers vs the nVIDIA ones.

My laptop has the ASUS Driver 344.00, would the latest nVIDIA ones be better in terms of performance or better stick to my driver?

[hmscott]

pokerface wrote:
True, the difference isn't mind blowing but for me personally I try to squeeze every bit of performance out of my system.
Yes the IRST Driver wsa preinstalled on my G751JY when I got it. then when I did a clean install, the system ran fine initially through all the Windows updates and stuff on the default MSAHCI driver I installed the IRST Driver after first installing the Intel Chipset Software > Intel Collaborative Performance Driver > MEI > IRST > etc
on this G751JY or any other ASUS laptop for that matter there is no need to install the full IRST package / its app. I only found one thing useful in it when running in non RAID mode, that is, on my prevoius Alienware which had 2 SATA III bays and one mSATA slot, I had an 840 EVO 1TB in the mSATA slot, there is one setting in the IRST app that is crucial which is to disable link power management that puts the drives in a lower power state mode to preserve energy, not needed for me so that's the only thing I do with the IRST ap, again, on my previous laptop there is no need for it here.

pokerface, all good 🙂

I will add the G751JY to the IRST list from now on.

You have an XP941, does the IRST systray app show any interesting options for tuning the PCIE x4 drive / port? Is there any additional software / app for the PCIE x4 SSD?

Thanks pokerface!

[pokerface]

hmscott wrote:
pokerface, all good 🙂

I will add the G751JY to the IRST list from now on.

You have an XP941, does the IRST systray app show any interesting options for tuning the PCIE x4 drive / port? Is there any additional software / app for the PCIE x4 SSD?

Thanks pokerface!

Haven't found any software for it yet and Samsung Magician v4.5 doesn't support it. I also looked for any firmware updates but couldn't find any link or even a product support page. Probably because it's only sold to OEMs I guess and is not a consumer product?

About any additional or interesting IRST options, I didn't install the full IRST package, only the one that comes from ASUS which is the driver only.

[Boaz_Beatz]

the rapid storage was not preinstalled one mine lol also it states that i have an sandisk ssd and i would like to know a program to see what speed the drive is running and what port its connected to

[pokerface]

Boaz Beatz wrote:
the rapid storage was not preinstalled one mine lol also it states that i have an sandisk ssd and i would like to know a program to see what speed the drive is running and what port its connected to

on yours? what's your laptop? you have no signature and post vague messages. Do you even know how to check what AHCI Controller driver you're running if you don't know what speed is your SSD and don't know what tool to use to benchmark it?????? I doubt....

For SSD speed, please download and run AS SSD Benchmark, that will give you an overall score of your drive for both sequential read/write and random 4K read/writes and latency

Sequential data is like when you are copying huge files such as video files and stuff. What is most important for system snapiness is the 4K read / writes, because if you think of it, the OS is comprised of small files that make it all work together so it's how fast can a drive randomly access those small files which will determine its overall snapinness

[Boaz_Beatz]

bro talk like that in real life and u wont live for that long 😉 if you read before you would know what laptop i have anyway its g751jy oh and when i said speed i meant the port its connected to

[pokerface]

Boaz Beatz wrote:
bro talk like that in real life and u wont live for that long 😉 if you read before you would know what laptop i have anyway its g751jy oh and when i said speed i meant the port its connected to

I didn't read your previous post since this post was on a new page, please add your system specs to your signature to make it easier on others when they want to help you 🙂

For the SATA ports, unfortunately, the left bay is SATA III @ 6 GB/S and the right bay is SATA II only @ 3 GB/S

Since I have a Samsung 850 PRO 1 TB in my 2nd bay and the M2 SSD in the first bay, I installed Samsung Magician and it told me that my 850 PRO is limited in performance since it's connected to a SATA II port.

I don't know why in the worls would ASUS put a SATA II port at this day and ege in a premium and their flagship laptop at the moment. Really pissed off about this

[hmscott]

pokerface wrote:
...the left bay is SATA III @ 6 GB/S and the right bay is SATA II only @ 3 GB/S
Since I have a Samsung 850 PRO 1 TB in my 2nd bay and the M2 SSD in the first bay, I installed Samsung Magician and it told me that my 850 PRO is limited in performance since it's connected to a SATA II port...

pokerface, you know you could combine the M.2 drive and SATA III drive - both in the Left Bay 🙂

G751JY - Replace M2 with 2.5" - Caddy?
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?57888-G751JY-Replace-M2-with-2-5-quot-Caddy&p=476675&viewf...

[pokerface]

hmscott wrote:
pokerface, you know you could combine the M.2 drive and SATA III drive - both in the Left Bay 🙂

G751JY - Replace M2 with 2.5" - Caddy?
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?57888-G751JY-Replace-M2-with-2-5-quot-Caddy&p=476675&viewf...

WOW!!! Amazing man!! you are a life saver!!!!!!! thanks a lot for this priceless tip! gonna try that right away!

One question though, currently, the M2 SSD is on a metal thingie with the adhesive tape I think acting as a heatsink? shall I remove those tapes and tape them to the SSD? wouldn't that generate more hit to the SSD itself?

[hmscott]

pokerface wrote:
WOW!!! Amazing man!! you are a life saver!!!!!!! thanks a lot for this priceless tip! gonna try that right away!
One question though, currently, the M2 SSD is on a metal thingie with the adhesive tape I think acting as a heatsink? shall I remove those tapes and tape them to the SSD? wouldn't that generate more hit to the SSD itself?

pokerface, it's pretty awesome, it almost makes up for the SATA II port in the Right bay, now you can have up to 4 HDD/SSD's in the G751 (including an optical bay SSD/HDD).

Please post photo's / temps when you get it optimized 🙂