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    gtx 680m overclocked but not fully utilized.

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by Bele, Jul 21, 2015.

  1. Bele

    Bele Notebook Consultant

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    900/2200 OC via afterburner, our dear lord SVL's bios.

    920xm (OCed to 22-24 at 4 cores depending on temp)
    win7 Home

    Running the games on Full screen/borderless window does little to no effect. Most times i get a perfcap - utilization from gpu-z. It comes out of it sometimes but I never undestand why it stays MOST of the time (say 80%)
     

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    It might be a power limitation. Which PSU do you have?
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Jul 22, 2015
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    Bele Notebook Consultant

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    forgot to include that.

    240w brick. took out the center pin to make sure I'm amply supplied. Got the same ones talked about in this forum. The precision one.
     
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    Maybe the best place to start would be to update your drivers to J95's latest modded versions.
     
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    Bele Notebook Consultant

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    Hi TqM

    What do you mean exactly? did I miss out on something crucial? I remember having to mod an inf just to install the drivers for the 680m. Not sure what J95's modded ones would do. Checking around TechInferno says he's got a lot of thread releases and such but I'm not sure which ones the modded ones are and why they're modded at all. I'm running driver version 344.75. Maybe I should update though honestly this hasn't happened before.
     
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    Simply its just a good idea to have the latest (and greatest) in drivers and J95's modded inf's before troubleshooting something that is likely driver related.
    Read the thread "[Alienware] Aftermarket Upgrades Driver Support - Modded INF" over at TechInferno. J95 is excellent at removing any inherent disadvantages from the releases.
     
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