Precision M4600 - Dual Core - 4 DIMM RAM???

are you the guy who did dry ice cooling? i think i saw it in another thread about it..

 

where do you edit all of this at? i have a 6870

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m17x/629186-5870ms-cfx-vbios-oc-850mhz.html

look at the 6th reply. not sure if it is exactly the same for other ATI cards, but I would be surprised if it aint.

 

Editing and flashing the VBIOS has been the same since my first set of ATI cards, which were 3870s.

Just make sure that you're running the absolute newest version of Radeon BIOS Editor (RBE), as well as the newest version of ATIFlash.

 

So I followed that instruction to use EVGA Eleet, but when I run prime 95/all four cores running, the speed of the cpu really remains the same.

I am not much interested in increasing the turbo boost speed, but speed when all four cores are running and stressed. And at that program, there is really no option to control that speed... Nor does throttlestop...

How did you guys get 3.2-3.4 ghz on your i7 extremes???

Also, after repasting with AC5, i get 75-80c with prime 95 when the lid is closed.

Thank you for your response in advance.

 

Quick question:

Did you get it stable for 900+mhz in the long run?

 

You're looking to run those clocks on a daily basis? Your best bet (since everyone's GPUs are not equal) is to ramp the voltage up to 1.15, flash the card to desired clock, and then start gaming with it. Watch the temps closely, and see if you can keep it stable. I wouldn't recommend this, but the 5870 is aging, and if you kill it, you can find one relatively cheap.

 

so I did flash with 1.15v and 900mhz. somehow 3dmark11 doesnt finish with 900mhz.

anyways, i have been testing with bf3, and the temp goes up to 93c... this is high, but what is really the highest it can "tolerate?"

 

If you can't finish a benchmark, then you have nothing to judge your performance against. I will tell you that a few frames per second aren't worth cooking your cards like that. 93°C is too high. If you can keep your cards cooler, I would say run whatever overclock you can with stability. I generally ran mine at 800/1100, which didn't even require a voltage adjustment.

I believe the card shuts down completely at 114°C.

I would look for a nice, rock-solid overclock that doesn't run above about 85°C. Have you ever applied new thermal paste and pads to your cards? Have you cleaned the vents and fan recently?

 

With all do respect, all the questions you asked on this forum, had been already answered.

As to the frequency of your cpu, it depends on current load, and how many cores are loaded,

Throttlestop is all you need, run it, click TRL button, set all to 25, click OK, then click TPL set TDP(w) to 80, and TDC(a) to 75,

After this, click the TURN ON button in the bottom right corner of throttlestop program, and save button on the left side.

TRL lets you controll the max frequency that your CPU will operate, depending on how many cores are active.

EG

1 core active (set to 26) means that your cpu will be turbod to 26x133=3458MHZ ON ONE CORE ONLY, rest will keep lower frequency, idle.
AND if you set 4 cores active to 25, it means that if your cpu will be stress loaded on all 4 cores, the frequency will bump to 133x25=3325 ON ALL FOUR CORES
and so on, bla bla bla

If you doing nothing on your laptop, CPU will not operate at full frequency, speed is adjusted to the amount of load.

Oh yeah, and read this as well please
http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m15x/527218-overclocking-940xm.html