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    Alert to m15x Overclockers!

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by PhantomThief, Jun 10, 2009.

  1. PhantomThief

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    The new 186.03 driver allows overclocking of the video card without BIOS flashing or anything of the sort. It can be done through the nTune utility. So far I've got it up to 600/1500/950, but then one of the dll files crashed and caused some throttling, so I've scaled back to 580/1450/950.

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    broken screenshot
     
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    thats nice but with the way this driver has my machine running it needs overclocking its running 50%+ throttle without even being asked to do anything I think I will be downgrading most likely.
     
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    50% throttle? You mean the speeds throttle at 50% load? I've had no problems with mine so far. Everything is working smoothly. If I were to bump the voltage I bet I'd get even more overclocking headroom, but I'm not going to flash the BIOS, not until the warranty is up and the 9800M GT begins to fall behind.
     
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