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Can anyone explain this please?

BarGin
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I recently bought a Dell 530S pc with an ATI HD 2400 XT graphics card. This had a Vista hardware rating of 4.0.

I decided to update the graphics card drivers from the AMD website, everying installed OK but now it seems I have an HD 2400 Pro graphics card. At this point Vista wanted to re-rate my machine and subsequently gave it 3.7!

Does anyone know what't going on?

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  • The_JinJ
    The_JinJ Posts: 468 Forumite
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    ...what's the problem?
    Neil
  • robt_2
    robt_2 Posts: 3,401 Forumite
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    If the computer does not operate any slower, I don't see the problem of a rating which could be lower to any number of factors.

    I wouldn't worry about it :)
  • BarGin
    BarGin Posts: 985 Forumite
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    I just couldn't understand why updating the drivers changed my graphics card to a different model that was supposedly slower.
  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    Wrong driver, maybe?
  • robt_2
    robt_2 Posts: 3,401 Forumite
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    You should be able to get the correct upto date driver from the dell website btw :)
  • BillScarab
    BillScarab Posts: 6,027 Forumite
    You should be able to roll back to the previous driver. Have you noticed any differenc ein performance though since this?
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