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    do You keep G73 overclocked all the time?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by fantomasz, Apr 5, 2012.

  1. fantomasz

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    or only for games?
     
    fantomasz, Apr 5, 2012
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    maykon_helver Notebook Consultant

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    Yes, not to any problem. Since its temperature is not above 90 degrees.
     
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    JOSEA NONE

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    I never OC the GPU or CPU but the most taxing games I play are various Need for Speed - temps stay below 75 C. I often underclock to prolong battery life when surfing, or emailing.
     
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    cuban11182 Notebook Evangelist

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    I always overclock, but I do have a 920XM! :D

    My 5870 doesn't like to OC at all.
     
    cuban11182, Apr 5, 2012
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  5. fantomasz

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    anyone else?
     
    fantomasz, Apr 13, 2012
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    iman Notebook Guru

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    I never overclock my G73. It's been 2 years this April and I'm very satisfied with stock performance on most games. anyway, mostly I'm using it as dev machine replacing my desktop :D
     
    iman, Apr 13, 2012
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    The performance gotten from OC this thing is so minimal, it's not worth it. Unless you have a CPU that's from God's armpit like Dallers did.
     
    KuroLionheart, Apr 13, 2012
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    I have the 7% OC from Asus Turbo Mode at start permanent even though I uninstalled the program, don't know how that worked.

    HD5870 usually is OD'd after startup to 750/1100 for games. I does go to 800/1100 but crashes some games, like Batman: AA or Orcs Must Die!. [Why the easy ones? I don't know.]
     
    thegreatsquare, Apr 13, 2012
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    IIRC there are 4 profiles:
    Stock, of course.
    Gaming core/clock of 750/1000
    Folding+Use is 790/1K
    Folding only is 800/1K and hardly used if at all....it'll work, just don't touch *anything*!
     
    a_non_moose, Apr 13, 2012
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    why would you want to have it overclocked all the time mate ?!?!?!
    you reduce the lifetime of the GPU with higher temperatures and degrading your paste at the same time

    either overclock only before playing games either change the vbios clocks but that reguires testing ofcourse
    that would be my advice
    personally i use sometimes AMD Gpu clock if i feel the need but i havent done any benchmark to see if actually there is some increase in games
    stable clock for me is 810/1070 i think
     
    mite_jan, Apr 14, 2012
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  11. fantomasz

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    my OC graphisc stay below 50C when browsing or light computind .
    I don't think this may cause any damage to graphics.
     
    fantomasz, Apr 14, 2012
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