G53JW 460M GPU OC - lower scores?

I just tried overclocking the 460M in my G53JW using MSI Afterburner. At stock, I got 1940 points in 3DMark11. After I bumped up the speed to 750, my score was 1925. In both benches, I noticed that the max temp was 80C. I'm wondering if the card is set to max 80C? If so, is that correct?

 

Wait, your OC score is lower than your stock? Something is definitely not adding up.
First don't bother about temps; everyone here is used to 83-84c under load with an heavy OC, therefore you're completely in range.

First of all, be sure that your drivers are up to date; currently nvidia has 285.38 beta and I advice them. If you need a guide to installation check my signature, even if you need a modded inf.

As for the overclock, don't mind going up: 700mhz is still low for this card, also you need to oc memory as well.
Start by overclocking the card using Nvidia inspector for now, forget MSI afterburner.

Set the clocks to 800/1600/1600 and try benching again.
Also to stay on the safe side download ThrottleStop from techinferno and launch it, turn it on, and leave it running.

Report back.

 

I agree. Something doesn't make sense. The OC should have given me slightly higher scores but it was lower!

I'm using the new beta driver 285.38 (clean install). The OC was to 750. Memory was linked so it was automatically set. I believe it was at 1500 but I could be wrong.

I know the card should be okay under 80C. The thing that I'm wondering about is that it seems strange that stock and OCed max GPU temp would both be at 80C during the 3DMark11 test. Shouldn't the OC have higher temps? My guess is that at 80C, the GPU started to throttle, and that's why I'm seeing such strange benchmarks. Then again, I'm just guessing and it could be something else.

Also, during an hour log session of WoW, my GPU temps went up to 84C, so it looks like there's no ceiling at 80C. I don't see how WoW would push the GPU more than 3DMark11?

I'll try your suggestion about throttlestop and OC to 800. Will post when I wake up.

 

It's kind of strange. I realized in MSI Afterburner that if I change the clocks and press save, once I try to recover the profile, the value go back to default.

I'm also giving Nvdia Inspector a try, and the adjustment options for the GPU Clock are greyed out.

Is almost seems like I'm not able to change the GPU clock?

 

No, thats the way it is meant to be (pun intended).

With inspector you can only raise only Shader clock and memory Clock. By raising shader clock , core clock raises accordingly to it. So basically if you up Shader clock to 1600, Core clock will raise to 800 automatically.

Then you can raise Memory slider to 1600 as well, in this way youll get 800/1600/1600 clocks as i mentioned before.

Thats not a gpu limitation by any means, or something like that: its how nvidia designed Fermi architecture. You cant unlock Core or Shaders anymore and raise them in single; shader and core are linked with a fixed ratio. Inspector instead using Core clock slider, uses Shader clock slider, which is more accurate.

Give it a go.

 

Heh. Thanks for the info. Here I go!

 

Okay, so the conclusion is that I'm an idiot. I realized that I have to press "apply" after any changes in MSI Afterburner in order for it to take effect. I just set it to 800/1600 and my scores went up to the 2100 range.

On another note, I searched for setFSB on google and when I clicked on the link for the main site, Norton won't let me in due to the 34 known security risks on it.

Anyone know where else to get it from?

 

turn Norton off and then try downloading