Netbook Review UK

If you want a netbook with better grahics performance than the standard GMA ‘built-in’ graphics from Intel, then Nvidia’s Ion platform is the way to go.  It integrates Nvidias 9400M graphics chip with the Atom platform to give your netbook graphics performance an extra kick, which is useful for watching high resolution video.  Recently, Nvidia quietly launched a varirant of the Ion platform, called Ion LE.  As far as we could tell, the only difference in ION LE (besides the lower price) was that it only supported DirectX 9 vs. the DirectX 10 capapble Nvidia Ion platform.  That was no problem for Windows XP users, since XP only supports DirectX 9, but Windows 7 users want DirectX 10 support.

Well, now a MyHPMini forum member called runawayprisoner has found a way to enable DirectX 10 support in the Nvidia Ion LE chips.  He did it by fooling the HP supplied driver into recognizing his ION LE chip as a regular Ion chip.  At the end of the day, after a few software modifications, he has his ION LE chip running DirectX 10 and his Windows Experience Index score for gaming graphics jumped from 3.9 to 5.4.

Check out the forum thread for all the details.

via Liliputing