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    Overclocking the 660M

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Elurael, May 30, 2012.

  1. krazeaznboy

    krazeaznboy Notebook Enthusiast

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    As you can see, it says the overclock is applied but when I run kombustor, it still says I'm at 835mhz. My 3D mark is lower than ASUS stock
     
    krazeaznboy, May 31, 2012
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  2. Cloudfire

    Cloudfire (Really odd person)

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    Strange. Even with +50MHz core clock and +100MHz memory clock you still get 200 less points than the Asus 660M at stock. So yeah it is throttling for shure.

    I see from the screenshot that its indeed stuck at 835MHz. I don`t know what to do to be honest :(
     
    Cloudfire, May 31, 2012
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  3. krazeaznboy

    krazeaznboy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for all your help. I already talked to Dell to return this laptop. No restocking fee.
     
    krazeaznboy, May 31, 2012
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  4. maplingstorie

    maplingstorie Notebook Guru

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    apparently the gtx 660m used for the asus and m17x are the same. only different is the bios version. I don't know why Dell won't allow us to oc the gtx 660m. >_> this is stupid
     
    maplingstorie, Jul 13, 2012
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  5. svl7

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    Does anyone of you 660m users get boost?

    I don't get any boost with the Dell vbios, and I can only overclock the core, really weird. I didn't expect this to be a vbios issue...
     
    svl7, Jul 17, 2012
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  6. eliteone

    eliteone Notebook Guru

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    Nope no boost..... and are you sure the core is actually running at your oc,d values? It will let me set the values but wont actually clock up to the set values.
     
    eliteone, Jul 17, 2012
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    Oh sorry, I meant memory. Core doesn't move a tiny bit when overclocking per software.
     
    svl7, Jul 17, 2012
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  8. eliteone

    eliteone Notebook Guru

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    Ya I think memory will stick, cause i can freeze the system by going too high. I tried a blind flash of the asus 660m vbios, and that didnt go so well.
     
    eliteone, Jul 17, 2012
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