bender957 wrote:JNavas, i have no idea what are you talking about.
my personal experience that with 2418 driver i got performance bust in Fallout New Vegas is about to 40%
to compare with 2342. (before minimum fps was 23 with new drivers 32)
In NFS Shift with 2342 minimum fps was 17 with driver version 2418 is 27. etc.
all you said above just bla-bla-bla. you trying discuss in topic where you have no idea whats going on.
simple enjoy your very old driver. 2342 have only one advantage it doesn't throtle so much as 2418.
We'll just have to agree to disagree. What I posted are facts. No call to be rude. Have a nice day. 
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go to intel.com site then in the search box at very top right corner type 2430 or 2462
then there will be drop down list appears and first string there will be 2430 for example
point your mouse cursor there and you will see popup menu at left from your cursor
choice there "drivers and files" -> and you will go to secret intel drivers ^__^
they will give you some nice fps gain in games. up to 50% to compare with lenovo preinstalled drivers
but there is 2 problems
1st. Install these drivers a little tricky.
a. download new drivers
b. turn off your internet connection
c. go to device manager find intel drivers and delete it (mark checkbox include soft)
d. reboot
e. Windows will start trying install drivers - cancel it
f. Install your downloaded drivers
g. reboot
2nd problem in brighteset. you will notice that your dispaly is twice brigther than before
to reset it back to default lenovo states run regedit and find Key called 'FeatureTestControl' value will be f800
replace it with f940. find next. replace all. REBOOT.
enjoy.
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-> Hi @ all. Im from Germany and I had problems with game performance so I was reading this thread for weeks now.
Right now im very happy because the text above helped me a lot to gain more FPS in many games. 25-50% wasnt a lie. JNavas, you rely on facts and I like that, but in this case Bender957 was right. It may depend on what Driver you had installed before, in my case it was the newest Lenovo driver.
I also tried installing a new one with device manager "search for new drivers" - that worked but nothing improved.
In fact I gained like +20 FPS which is quite a lot. Thanks @ Bender957 for the guide.
I dont want to restart the "fight" and throw new unproofed material among you guys but I tested benders hint and it worked for me.
All in all, Intel Turbo boost+ still doesnt work on my device. I turn it on, the fan makes some noise but performance and CPU-frequency keeps the same.
CPU-Z shows 2998 mhz and sometimes 789 or something. I never reach 3,2GHZ. Also lenovo performance tool shows GPU staying at 100%, instead of rising to more.
Long story short : Bender gave a nice Tip to improve game performance, throttling issue isnt fixed anyway so all of us, including the happy +20fps guy (me) will wait for the BIOS update announced until the end of the month.
Some info : I have X220t (IPS) 4GB ram, Win7 pro 64bit and most important : Core i5
| Prozessor | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz | 7,1 |
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| Arbeitsspeicher (RAM) | 4,00 GB | 5,9 | |||
| Grafik | Intel(R) HD Graphics Family | 4,7 | |||
| Grafik (Spiele) | 1696 MB insgesamt verfügbarer Grafikspeicher | 6,2 | |||
| Primäre Festplatte | 17GB frei (126GB gesamt) | 7,4 |
Hard Disk score was some time at 7,8 ( ;D ) due to my OCZ Vertex 2 160GB SSD. (lenovo uses samsung?)
Graphics just rised from 6,1 to 6,2 . That migth just be a "bug" or tolerance from windows performance index (or how it was named in english 
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- Score just did not change a lot, but performance in games inproved a lot
Oh and I used 2430 driver.
Kai
KYL3R wrote:
[SNIP] Right now im very happy because the text above helped me a lot to gain more FPS in many games. 25-50% wasnt a lie. JNavas, you rely on facts and I like that, but in this case Bender957 was right. It may depend on what Driver you had installed before, in my case it was the newest Lenovo driver. [SNIP] In fact I gained like +20 FPS which is quite a lot. [SNIP] Graphics just rised from 6,1 to 6,2 . That migth just be a "bug" or tolerance from windows performance index (or how it was named in english- Score just did not change a lot, but performance in games inproved a lot
The minor increase in WEI Gaming Graphics from 6.1 to 6.2, with significant improvement in some (not all) games, is in fact just what I wrote. That may make non-Lenovo driver hassles worth it for you, but not for me.
The X220 can be used for less demanding games, but is by no stretch of the imagination a "gaming laptop":
Intel HD 3000 (X220) 8900 6715
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M * 57014 26329
* Alienware M17x R3 GTX 580M i7-2820QM ["gaming laptop"]
"The glossy screen, the keyboard ghosting, the GPU throttling on battery power, and the high price tag are its main flaws."
KYL3R wrote:
[Current Hard Disk score] 7,4
Hard Disk score was some time at 7,8 ( ;D ) due to my OCZ Vertex 2 160GB SSD. (lenovo uses samsung?)
Performance of many SSD drives (including OCZ Vertex 2) declines over time, expecially if you don't TRIM regularly.
FWIW, my new 80GB Intel 310 mSATA SSD currently has 7.7 WEI. I use the Intel SSD Toolbox to TRIM it weekly.
