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    Can't Find AtiOverdrive With 6990m

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Lazy8s, Oct 7, 2011.

  1. Lazy8s

    Lazy8s Notebook Geek

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    I am sure I am just missing something simple here, but I cannot find AtiOverdrive. I was going to overclock my 6990m tonight, but I can't find overdrive so I do not want to mod my vid driver yet. I thought maybe it was the Dell drivers so I downloaded the latest off the latest off of the AMD website. I have watched a dozen youtube videos so I know where to look under "Advanced View". I did some googling and searching this forum. I found a lot of 6-pin vs 8-pin desktop card posts, but nothing on mobile GPUs. What gives? Is there a good, thorough guide?
     
    Lazy8s, Oct 7, 2011
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  2. inap

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    here is something from the rev. that may help.
     
    inap, Oct 7, 2011
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  3. SlickDude80

    SlickDude80 Notebook Prophet

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    Dude, forget overdrive as its maxxed out at 740/1000. You have to enable it within CCC. Its just too limited and too much trouble

    A much better way to overclock is using Sapphire Trixx. This is what i use.

    Expect 800/1050 easily...

    https://www.sapphireselectclub.com/ssc/TriXX/TriXX.aspx
     
    SlickDude80, Oct 7, 2011
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    BrainTp Notebook Enthusiast

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    THANK YOU SO MUCH!

    This software works wonderfully.

    OCed to 830/1100 stable so far.
     
    BrainTp, Nov 14, 2011
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  5. GeoCake

    GeoCake http://ted.ph

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    Agreed. This program is amazing. :eek:

    I wonder why I am only hearing about this now !
     
    GeoCake, Nov 14, 2011
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    nayilalien Notebook Evangelist

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    What temperatures are you looking at?
     
    nayilalien, Nov 14, 2011
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  7. SlickDude80

    SlickDude80 Notebook Prophet

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    hehe...fabulous! i'm able to get it all the way to 1250 on the memory easily so you have a ways to go lol.

    A comfortable place for me for everyday is 780/1050. This is what i'm playing Skyrim at and its perfectly smooth. For benching, i run it at 835/1250.
     
    SlickDude80, Nov 14, 2011
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  8. SlickDude80

    SlickDude80 Notebook Prophet

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    Ask and you shall receive :D
     
    SlickDude80, Nov 14, 2011
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    while benching at 835/1250, my gpu temps are running mid 70's. This is using the bottlecap mod and repasting the GPU with Prolimatech PK-1

    playing skyrim at 780/1050, my temps are around 70-71c
     
    SlickDude80, Nov 14, 2011
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  10. nayilalien

    nayilalien Notebook Evangelist

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    wow man! my shader temps go up all the way to 83c on stock paste :p
     
    nayilalien, Nov 14, 2011
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  11. SlickDude80

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    The stock paste is very mediocre...then you combine that with the horrible paste jobs that you typically see by the dell techs at the factory and you're lucky to only be at 83c lol.

    Repaste and expect an average 5-10c drop in temps. i dropped almost 15c
     
    SlickDude80, Nov 14, 2011
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