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    How To Stop Down Clocking of nVidia GPU?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Rahzer, Jul 24, 2010.

  1. Rahzer

    Rahzer Notebook Consultant

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    So ive been doing some testing and I have noticed that my GPU is down clocking itself. How do I prevent and stop this?
     
    Rahzer, Jul 24, 2010
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Downclocking when you are doing what? Which M11x do you have?
     
    namaiki, Jul 24, 2010
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    slickie88 Master of Puppets

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    There are utilities out there that will disable powermizer for the 335.
     
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    Rahzer Notebook Consultant

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    It down clocks when I start up a game. Is the feature called PowerMizer?
     
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Powermizer is only supposed to downclock the card when the higher speed is not needed. Say, for me when I am playing a video, the clocks go to the highest and quietly slow down and end up at the lowest without any lag (stays at the highest if I play a video at 1080p, though). For gaming, well then that probably should not be happening, unless there is a CPU bottleneck or if it's an extremely old game that the GPU is having an easy time with or if the GPU is overheating.
     
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