Toshiba display drvier vs other sources - Satellite P100

Hi,
A couple of questions...
I bought a P100-188 (pspa3e) a couple of weeks ago from PC World (don't hate me, they were cheapest that had it in stock!), it came with installed NVIDIA drivers 6.14.10.8400 - presumably based on Forceware 84 from NVIDIA.
Toshiba driver download page offered a driver version 8.3.2.0, uploaded on 30/7. I got it but when I tried to install it, it told me it was older than my current version. I didn't allow the installation to proceed.
Can anyone tell me:
1. What is the difference between tosh drivers and nvidia reference drivers? I know nvidia refrence drivers don't officially support this laptop (and I have not tried to install them). Are there any features of the tosh drivers worth having those for?
2. What version of display driver other P100-188 owners found on their machines?
3. What non tosh drivers have people tried?
4. Do Toshiba maintain their display drivers on the download site adequately? The offered driver would appear to be based on Forceware 83...
Hope you can help :)

Hi
As far as I know the original nVidia drivers was designed for the desktop PC graphic cards and not for notebooks. The notebooks graphic cards dont are different. There is only a nVidia chip. Because of the notebook miniaturizing the cards have no own strong cooling modules. Therefore the Toshiba graphic drivers are responsible for the graphic card performance. If the graphic card temp increases to the critical level the driver decreases the performance. Then the temperature decreases to the lower level.
The original graphic card manufacture drivers dont support such function.
I have read that some people have used a omega drivers. But you should know that the Toshiba doesnt recommend using different drivers. You should use the Toshiba own graphic driver. But if you want to use a other driver you can do that at your own risk.
greetings

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