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slashgear.com - 27 days ago

NVIDIA Ion LE DirectX 10 hack suggests purposefully crippled features

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NVIDIA’s Ion LE promises to deliver the same 1080p HD playback as its regular Ion sibling , but at a cheaper price; to do that, it drops DirectX 10 support in favor of solely accommodating DX9. It turns out that the limitation is, in fact, an arbitrary one and that the Ion LE seems to have been ...

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maximumpc.com - 27 days ago

Nvidia's DirectX 10 Hack Suggests That Features Really do Exist in Ion LE Chip

— maximumpc.com — It's pretty common for hardware vendors to artificially gimp their budget or lower cost parts. Take AMD's... tri-core chip, for example, which comes with a core disabled that isn't necessarily bad. And who still remembers Nvidia's vanilla 6800 graphics card that came with 4 software-unlockable ... (more) Nvidia's DirectX 10 Hack Suggests That Features Really ...

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myhpmini.com - 27 days ago

Attention: Real difference between ION and ION LE

— myhpmini.com — Oh well, no harm done in telling, I guess. I just hope nVidia doesn't take this further... and block the support from within the drivers in upcoming driver releases. So what I did was take the driver from the HP site, peek a bit into the INF, and I ... (more) Attention: Real difference between ION and ION LE

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DirectX 10 can be unlocked on ION LE
Fudzilla — ... and unlock DirectX 10 support on the LE. According to SlashGear, the hack was successfully employed by a bloke on his HP Mini. The process is rather simple. You apparently just need to ad a proper device ID to the driver INF file, and voila, you've got DirectX 10. Of course, the hack only makes sense if you're running Vista SP2 or Win 7, which isn't the case with most netbook/nettop users. XP lacks DirectX 10 support, so there's no point in unlocking it on XP systems. More here .

Nvidia's DirectX 10 Hack Suggests That Features Really do Exist in Ion LE Chip
Maximum PC — ... It's pretty common for hardware vendors to artificially gimp their budget or lower cost parts. Take AMD's tri-core chip, for example, which comes with a core disabled that isn't necessarily bad. And who still remembers Nvidia's vanilla 6800 graphics card that came with 4 software-unlockable pipelines to transform it into a 6800GT? As it turns out, Nvidia may have taken the same software-based approach to its Ion LE platform. ...

NVIDIA ION LE hack adds DirectX 10 support, raises interesting questions
Engadget — ... be able to take your ION LE machine, install Windows 7 and the driver hack, and get on with your life (and save a few bucks in the process). Why bother with the charade, you ask? Theories abound, but we think it's a pretty good guess that NVIDIA is merely adhering to Microsoft licensing requirements here, and that in the long run crippling an existing chipset is cheaper than developing an entirely new one for an OS that's likely to be phased out sooner than later. [Via SlashGear] ...

Hack activates DirectX 10 on NVIDIA ION LE
DV Hardware — ... Slashgear reports a driver hack can enable DirectX 10 support on the NVIDIA ION LE chipset: NVIDIA’s Ion LE promises to deliver the same 1080p HD playback as its regular Ion sibling, but at a cheaper price; to do that, it drops DirectX 10 support in favor of solely accommodating DX9. It turns out that the limitation is, in fact, an arbitrary one and that the Ion LE seems to have been artificially crippled by NVIDIA themselves; MyHPMini forum member runawayprisoner found that by slightly modifying HP’s own Ion drivers he could get them to install ...

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