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    Overclocking for a beginner.

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Lanner7, Aug 3, 2011.

  1. Lanner7

    Lanner7 Notebook Geek

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    Hey guys.

    I'm interested in pushing my new m17x a little bit. I've never attempted overclocking before, and would like to know where I should start.

    Are there any precautions I should take first however? It would be tragic to permanently damage a brand new machine...
     
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  2. qohelet

    qohelet Senior Member

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    can you do some benchmarking like 3dmark11 and 3dmarkvantage. we have the same specs. we'll be nice to compare :D

    with regards to overclocking, you can use sapphire trixx to overclock your gpu. In my opinion, OC is safe but do so at your own risk :) i can overclock mine up to 820/1100. when i do 850/1100, it crashed. Good luck!
     
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  3. ewitte12

    ewitte12 Notebook Evangelist

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    Its not that easy to break these things if it gets too hot it will throttle. It may lockup and force a reboot. The only time I lost hardware (motherboard) was because of insufficient condensation protection on a chilled water config. CPU, memory and everything else was fine. Your not going to be able to do much with voltages on this laptop either so your pretty safe.
     
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  4. Lanner7

    Lanner7 Notebook Geek

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    Yeah, but it'll have to wait until I can get home tonight-- silly me decided to leave it at home today.
     
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    Lazy8s Notebook Geek

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    I have overclocked since people modified the voltage coming from the power supply. That was when boards actually melted. Today, barring a temp sensor failure, most hardware shuts down when it gets anywhere close to overheated. Safe operating temps are far above what you would expect.
     
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