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    highest gpu overclock

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by mightymax86, Jul 19, 2011.

  1. mightymax86

    mightymax86 Notebook Consultant

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    hey guys im still waiting on my m14x im going to get it on or before the 22nd, i just wanted to see whats the highest sustained overclock and temps anyone has had. ive heard as high as 800 for the core. thanks guys! :)
     
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  2. Gearsguy

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    I always use 765/1080 and it stays pretty cool w/o a cooler. Ive heard higher than that gets unstable though
     
    Gearsguy, Jul 19, 2011
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    I use 701/945, the temp usually stay around 70C - 72C in a non-air con room in Winter, I'm not sure yet on Summer though (because in NZ is now Winter :D). I think higher than that might give you BSODs.
     
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    Ditto, I can hit 767 stable but I pulled it back to 765 and it doesn't go over 76c.
     
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    See thats weird. I was running 765/1080 in an AC room in summer, slightly humid with a (pretty bad) cooler playing mount and blade and my gpu temperature was only 56
     
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    I think mines around that just at idle.
     
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    Hmm...well, Gearsguy, you have the 3GB card while clienterror has the 1.5GB...I know it's not supposed to make a difference...maybe the extra RAM acts as a heat sink, haha.
     
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    And maybe depend on if he has a cooler on, and the room temperature as well.
     
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    huh strange ive seen a 3d mark score with it clocked at 800 they must have been seeing a large amount of artifacts than
     
    mightymax86, Jul 20, 2011
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    how do you guys keep the gpu from resetting the clock every time restart a windows?
     
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    In NVIDIA control panel, for overclocking with that program, it has an auto pop up that asks if you want to load that clock at startup.

    And yeah I know it counts on room tempature, but its gotta be in the 60s in my room still and all the cooler is doing is basically propping the back up. My idle is around 45 degrees

    EDIT: just checked, its sitting at 42 degrees while I surf the web (not watching videos or anything)
     
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    I use MSI Afterburner, and in there, there's a option called "Apply overclocking at system startup" under the Profile. That what keep my setting. And I think you might need to have it run all the time to keep the setting too.
     
    CGSDR, Jul 20, 2011
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