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    8600mgt overclocking?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by themanwithsauce, Oct 17, 2007.

  1. themanwithsauce

    themanwithsauce Notebook Evangelist

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    So I've seen some people on these forums talk about overclocking their 8600mgts. I own a C90s with one (512mb DDR2 one, not DDR3) and I was wondering if/how I could do this. I have eard most people go through their bios settings but I don't remember if they had C90s too or another brand so their BIOS might be different from mine. Anyone's experiences on this matter would be appreciated.
     
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    just use nTune, it'll do just fine :)
     
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    IShb3w Notebook Enthusiast

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    IShb3w, Oct 17, 2007
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    The people using there bios are using newer drivers. Wich may become necessary if you play new games that have had a fix in new drivers.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Oct 17, 2007
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  5. themanwithsauce

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    Yeah I think I'll try with my 163.xx driver first (forgot which one exactly but it's new)

    *EDIT* Everytime I select what speed to voerclock the gpu and memory, it just goes back to 475/400 when I select "apply" and I turned speed-stepping back on too.
     
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    I can't OC any of the newer drivers, but to be honest most of the new drivers preform as well as the older drivers with the video card OCed, so no real big. I'd like to OC, atleast to the Turbo Gear VGA add on levels (500/450 or 500). Thus far the only drivers I've been able to OC is 101.18(17).
     
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  7. themanwithsauce

    themanwithsauce Notebook Evangelist

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    I OCed with the older drivers but 3dmark kept erroring when I OCed so I guess I'm back to the new drivers.
     
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    If you were to overclock i think it would be a wise idea to uninstall or atelast block the turbogear vga drivers. Who knows what kind of issues it causes having 2 pieces of software try to overclock at once.
     
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    Easy, already found out Turbo Gear VGA over rights anything else and resets your clock back to 500/450.
     
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    Hmm I just confimred it doesnt when I did some overclocking 30 min ago. You may have had drivers that prevented overclocking? I definitly had my overclock stick when them still installed. However I have to take the time to test my own theory that it may cause issues later because I got unstable clocks with just a very mild overclock, I hope its the drivers causing the issue but I very much doubt so.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Oct 18, 2007
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    Release 160= no OC on most notebooks
     
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    I thought the newest one allowed it? or as I read from a thread the Big_V started in Gaming section..but i think it got merged into something :S
     
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    I'm not too sure on the astest (163.75?)
     
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    when i tried the newest 163.75 my screen went entirely white at random times and then various colored lines went all over the place, it was insane. i wish i had it on video. i thought my screen itself was broken cuz the laptop slid down my leg and i barely caught it before it hit the ground.. but come to find out, it was just the driver, i reverted back to 158.45 and have had no problems other than the "display driver has stopped responding" tooltip show up on the taskbar every time i resume the computer out of screensaver mode... anybody know of a fix for that?
     
    IShb3w, Oct 19, 2007
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