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    Overclocking my MBP's GPU in XP

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by whiteunibrow, Mar 21, 2009.

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    whiteunibrow Notebook Enthusiast

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    15'' unibody. In XP now that I have decent temps, trying to overclock my GPU.
    NVIDIA system tools does not show up on my control panel for some reason even though I installed it. Rivatuner is not detecting my GPU clock settings correctly nor is it changing them when I tell it to (I'm pretty sure).

    Does anyone know what I should do to overclock my GPU?
     
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    Bartlett The Prophet

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    hehe299792458 Notebook Deity

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    rivatuner...
     
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    +1 for rivatuner :)
     
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    1. Installed NVIDIA system tools 6.03 and even rebooted and still, nothing showed up in my nvidia control panel. It doesnt even have a "performance" tab.

    2. In Rivatuner, I clicked "Enable driver-level hardware overclocking" and had it detect my GPU's clocks. It said they were at 393/700/786, which is much lower than the clocks posted at http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-9600M-GT.9449.0.html or maybe those are wrong. Because Rivatuner thinks the max for Shader Speed is 1180 when its really 1250.
    Also, I told Rivatuner to use 528/826/1180 and it had no effect whatsoever on 3DMark06 scores.

    So have any of these methods been confirmed for macbook pro or are you just giving me advice based on use with Rivatuner and NVIDIA system tools on other machines? Or am I doing something wrong?
     
    whiteunibrow, Mar 22, 2009
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