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    Overclocking tool from nvidia?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by f3liC, Nov 16, 2010.

  1. f3liC

    f3liC Notebook Guru

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    I'm on the r2 and i would like to know if theres an overclocking tool by nvidia that looks like this:

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    NVIDIA Control Panel ? Performance Group

    it was so easy to overclock on a 9600gtm. i'm hoping it exists on the m11x/335m as well
     
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    I'm not familiar with the Nvidia overclocking tool for the 335m, but EVGA Precision is about as simple as it gets. It has sliders for the core, shader and memory... dunno if you can adjust anything else no matter what tool you're using.

    Edit: On second thought, the profile system in EVGA Precision is a little wonky at first but it's fine once you get the hang of it.
     
  3. f3liC

    f3liC Notebook Guru

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    yeah i've looked at others but none gets as simple as the one i listed. if it doesn't exist i won't mind using other alternatives but i'd like to make sure of that first
     
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    I don't think that you can overclock from the nvidia control panel. In fact, my nv control panel has hardly any options (see screenshot). EVGA Precision works great though.
     

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    Either EVGA Precision or MSI Afterburner are excellent tools for clocking the 335M. Both offer overclocking and monitoring.

    For reference though afterburner maxes out at 585/1404/1800. EVGA Precision may let you go higher.
     
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    oh wut? o_O
    Even I add 25 MHz to the clocks my games still stuck x.x
    I'm dead. kthxbai.
     
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    Should at least add four times what you added to see results..
     
  8. laz91

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    dont know if it helps but came across this

    on this thread bout 4 post down... Unfortunately i have no idea where to find this performance aspect thing... let me know if u find out
     
  9. Xaser04

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    Realistically you need to push over 525/1260/1700 (up from 450/1080/1590) before you see any meaningful benefit in games, although I should point out that you need to be GPU limited before clocking to see any benefit at all.

    If you are already cpu limited upping the GPU clocks can actually makes things worse not better.

    I believe the performance feature in the Nvidia drivers was called (or maybe still is called) ntune. Perhaps google that or google nvidia performance features to find out more. I don't use this so I can't comment further.
     
  10. f3liC

    f3liC Notebook Guru

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    thanks it was exactly what i was looking for. its called Nvidia System Tools from:

    NVIDIA DRIVERS 6.06
     
  11. laz91

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    thanks for finding it :) might give it a go altho dont know if im game enough seeing as my m11x is already hitting 50C with 150mhz cpu overclock... and thats not even playing ne games lol
     
  12. Xaser04

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    I have not noticed a material (above 5 degrees) increase in temperatures (using afterburner) when running my 335m at 585/1404/1760 vs stock clocks.

    The highest I have seen so far is 64 degrees in Crysis with the GPU overclocked (vs 62 with the GPU at stock frequencies).

    If the 335m is not on the compatability list for Nvidia System tools the only (easy) way to see if it works is to try it. The 335m is a cut down GT240 based chip so it *should* work.
     
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    it appears to work on mine. it only allows you to overclock the graphics card though dunno where the other options for other stuff went. maybe its not supported but i'm pretty happy with it