Overclocking Asus G53SX-XR1 Processor and GFX gard

Hey fellow gamers!

Im kinda new to this overclocking thing...
So i thought that i would find some help from asus gaming forums

My current specs are
Intel® Core i7-2630QM @ 2,9Ghz
GTX 560M 2GB
for the processor and gfx card..

so.. like i said.. I have No clue how to overclock them.

Could some1 give me a little advice how to do it?
..

Or should i prolly go for some better components..? Like better gfx card etc.

 

Hi!

For GPU overclock you can go here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/624372-how-oc-gtx-460m.html
read all the comments, if you need help, just ask.

 

Do you know what is the max temps 560m can handle..?

I would guess that i wouldnt go over 90c?

e.

And should i uninstall ASUS power4gear?

 

Hi,

1 - max temp is 101c before it shuts down the whole laptop (overheating). Supposedly under 90c you're fine, laptop cards are designed to hit those temps.
2 - nope there's no need to unistall p4g. It's usefull for battery sessions since it has different profiles to be used with a button click. Also it doesn't interfere with overclock.

Remember to use ThrottleStop before even attempting an overclock since there's a throttling bug that effects all g series notebooks.
Asus hasn't shared future projects about a fix, so basically it can be fixed with ThrottleStop but still it's a non resolved issue by the manufacturer.

Anyway there are a few threads about overclocking, check past pages you'll find some useful infos.

This said, have fun and good luck.

 

I'm atm rolling with 800/1600/1600..
pic:


Is it safe to raise the clocks even more?
And does the throttlestop have to be running all the time?

And..is there any benchmarking softs which work..? :d
Tried with 3DMark11 and it gave me an error.

 

There's no need for ThrottleStop to still running unless you plan to use temp monitoring as I do.
You can safely shutdown it after you launched it once; or edit the program ini and include this line on the bottom:

DcExit=5 this should auto close the program after 5 seconds.

To check oc stability you need either an heavy game such Crysis 2 or Deus Ex, or a benchmark program like 3dmark11 (run it with full experience option) and heaven benchmark 2.5 (3 runs at last).

What bothers me is your statement about the 3dmark11 error: which kind of error is it? If it crashes then probably your gpu can't handle those clocks.

Try to run it with 800/1600/1500 and see if it still crash. Also be sure to have latest 285.79 beta drivers installed in the proper way. Check the guide in my signature if that's the case.

 

Should the benchmark test be ran at Preset: Extreme?
and Full 3dMark 11 Experience

 

You can't overclock the CPU, by the way.

 

So umm... tried 3Dmark again.. after clean installing 285.79 drivers..
Gave the same error:

"Workload Single init returned error message: DXGI call IDXGIFactory1::CreateSwapChain failed:

The target window or output has been occluded. The application should suspend rendering operations if possible.

DXGI_STATUS_OCCLUDED"

I read somewhere that 3DMark 11 doesnt support Direct x11...
Error could be cause of that..?
Imma try with heaven benchmark.

 

Ohkay... Ran Heaven Benchmark 2.5 3 times. no crashes.. With 800/1600/1600.

Everything set up to the max:

Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 16x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Tessellation:normal

And got:

FPS: 10.8
Scores: 271
Min FPS: 6.4
Max FPS: 22.0