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    oc GTX 560M?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by edd666999, Sep 2, 2011.

  1. edd666999

    edd666999 Notebook Guru

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    is it possible? Any walk through I can follow?
     
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    Thats great but i cant find the tool that allows me to change things like that? whats it called?
     
    edd666999, Sep 2, 2011
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    you can use many programs, but my recommendation would be MSI Afterburner

    MSI Afterburner
     
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    i second msi afterburner. Works very well...

    I use afterburer on my Asus g73sw with a gtx 460m. It works very well
     
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    I think they were using Nvidia Inspector after Afterburner ran out of clock. Also tried EVGA Precision.
     
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    Hi there,

    i´ve bought a GTX 560M from a M17x user. It was delivered today. This weekend the HD 5850 will changed with the GTX 560M. After installing the 560M I´ll run some benchmarks und tell you the results. I´ll hope it´s faster than the oc´ed HD5850.

    BTW - yes, my english is bad.....
     
    walhalla, Nov 10, 2011
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    The stock 560m will be slightly faster than OC'ed 5850

    Stock for stock, the 560m is 20-25% faster than a 5850...so unless you were able to get a huge overclock on it, it will be faster.

    You can also overclock the 560m, so regardless, you have a faster card there
     
    SlickDude80, Nov 10, 2011
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    Hey my stock speeds are shader:1150 core:775 memory:1250

    Does anyone have suggestions on speeds they've seen work that doesn't overheat it too much? I'm fairly new to mobile overclocking, I usually work on a desktop.
     
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    You have a gtx 560m? OMG...what the heck are you leaving that stock for?

    Download MSI afterburner

    Then set this:

    880 Core
    1750 Shaders
    1550 DDR5

    When you get more comfortable and its stable go for:
    900/1800/1625
     
    SlickDude80, Nov 10, 2011
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    Haha Thanks! i will test those. Any reason I am only scoring about 780 in Furmark? That seems extraordinarily low.

    After the overclock: 1331 still low though. Gonna try 3d mark vantage to see how it affected my scores...which seemed around the norm for my card. ~10k
     
    UnshavenBag, Nov 10, 2011
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    To find those settings I had to change the view to legacy mode. Why is that?
     
    skywalka, Dec 17, 2012
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