M4400 Downclocks :(

Lol, there's a FIND OPTIMAL button right under the third slider. My optimal for the old M4400:

756 / 1045 / 1687

3DMark06 update in a few minutes.

 

No i saw the button (in XP only) but the laptop crashed while system tools was searching optimal settings. Maybe i'll try again Really don't wanna crash too much with OC'ing tho...if anything serious happens i'm screwed!

 

I love this card

Noticed the FPS was 10-15 FPS higher in everything with the optimal OC. CPU benchmark was still crappy, 0-1FPS. I bet the newer system will break 7800 or hopefully 8000 but I'm sure that's pushin' it.

*Edit: sorry I noticed I turned this thread into a "M4400 Overclocks : )" thread

 

WOW...that's awesome!!

What CPU did you have again? And what settings did you use?

I got 2 BSOD's while doing the optimal search I'll try setting it to the same clocks as you did and run the test...do you see any differences between my setup (in sig) and yours?
this is all on stock Dell drivers, right?

 

I get "nv4_disp" BSODs after doing optimal search more than once. Not worried about a thing though, BSODs = prevention from murdering my system. First time worked like a charm and I only needed to do it once to see how high I can push it.

756 / 1045 / 1687
Max temp: 55C (but we all know 3DMark06 doesn't affect this much)
CPU: T9400 (2.53GHz)
4GB, XP SP3
250GB 7200RPM

Almost the same as you. This baby is getting packed and shipped to Dell. The GPU is amazing but only if it didn't have occasional lock-ups it would be perfect. Haven't locked up in 3 days, it's been fun . But first, one more benchmark with +50 in every slider.

 

That's really weird then....my temps rise too 81c in last tests and it definetly ain't because of ambient temp!! it's COLD here...lol...i'll try the optimal search again becasue if i manually set that high the test fails and i can't save those settings, i get an error message saying they aren't valid.

i'll be right back

 

found the optimal finally

757 /931 /1691....memory clock somehow seems to be the only big difference.
now for the test...seems the ratio thing doesn't really apply after all though

 

OK....that wasn't fun at all....i got several weird color shifts during the canyon test and white spots (like burn holes) during deep freeze, decided to abort the test...

sounds familiar or am i really pushing too far?

 

Don't push to the point where the graphics mess up, that's not good. Peak out where your card tells you to stop, otherwise you're asking for too much. I got a couple color shifts too, so I don't plan to go past optimal OC.

 

Yeah exactly...ran a test now in Vista again with clocks @ 750 / 920 / 1650.....got me a 7310 score. I just lowered the optimal i found i XP to see what it does here but i'll go down a bit more on each to be on the safe side...don't want too burn my card for 3fps

seeing the increase on each clock it seems there's more room on the core and shader than on the memory. I think i'll apply that on the lowering yoo....say, core -30, shader -50, mem -20.

one more test to see if that works without any weird stuff