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    Alienware 17 with 780M - Unlocked the Bios now would like to overclock

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by sparrow21, Feb 16, 2014.

  1. sparrow21

    sparrow21 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have owned this new machine for a few months now and was getting fed up with the throttling so I flashed the vbios with the one from techinferno (svl7). I can now enjoy games with no throttling! But now I would like to overclock the card and see what it is capable of but every time I do, no matter what combo of core clock / mem clock using msi afterburner, random amounts of gaming make the display driver crash with message that the display driver stopped working. I rolled back to driver 331.93 and it seems to be a very stable driver by itself but still I cannot get any overclock to work for any amount of time. Any advice on how to proceed? If I stick with stock clocks, then I have no problems at all.

    I am just happy that it no longer throttles lol
     
    sparrow21, Feb 16, 2014
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  2. simonmpoulton

    simonmpoulton Notebook Deity

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    It's possible that you have a card that doesnt overclock well - you might need to get the voltage increased to get any higher clock to be stable.
     
    simonmpoulton, Feb 17, 2014
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    Hackintoshihope AlienMeetsApple

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    He may not even know about the voltage or about the power %. Download nvidia inspector OP. and check out some of the extra settings there.
     
    Hackintoshihope, Feb 17, 2014
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