Overclocking asus g1s, 8600m gt

I've had my asus for a little over a year now, and im thinking about overclocking.

I'm going to use Ntune, and i would like to know what are the best settings for safety erformance loss:gains.

It plays games like gears of war and crysis decently, but i would like to up my performance.

Also, if needed i would also like to overclock my cpu. What would be the best program to do this with.

In terms of temperature, i won't be playing games etc unless i am in my a/c room WITH a table fan at high speed on my laptop. Whenever i do this, even playing intensive games it says very cool, so i figure i can safely overclock.

I am new to this, so help would be greatly appreciated.

 

580/780

i used these settings and went from 3460 to 4112 on 3d mark06.

almost 700 point increase seems very substantial wouldn't you say.

Do you think i would notice visual improvements in my games now?


Also, if i want to overclock my cpu, whats the best program to use?

 

Mine runs at 549/900. My 3DMark is 4800.

Don't overclock your CPU. They don't go very far before crashing and its just not worth it.

 

i'm wondering

is it normal for my default score to be in the 3500 range? i've heard of much higher scores for default settings and i would like to know whats causing it.

 

default, I was getting about 3600. After Oc'ing, installing Vista x64 and adding 2GB Ram, it went up by 1200 points.

 

im thinking of adding another 1gb of ram, it's just a simple plug in isn't it?

figure it's worth it

 

so, i played cod4 with it at that overclock, about 10 min in, the screen went black, and fps dropped to like 5.

i ran 3dmarko6 and my score was abmysmal

so i restarted my computer and the performance was back to normal...

could this just be a fluke due to my driver, or do you think it is directly due to the overclock.

at the time the temperature of my computer was cold to the touch (im in a really cold room)

 

I was having similar problems with my 8800m GTS, I think what it is is the particular unit in our systems isn't very overclock friendly, I'd try some smaller OC's and slowly work your way up, testing each set until you find the "sweet spot". Good luck.

 

Your overclock was too high and made the system unstable. It will take a bit of time for the OC to push the temp up to the point where the chassis gets warm, but the instability will be immediate.

Some chips in a given production batch will OC better than others; you can't always take others' settings and have success with them. Much better and safer to take it in slow increments and check for stability as you go.

 

Personally, I think the whole thing's a bad Idea.

A G1S has a major cooling design flaw. It runs hotter than most Laptops at standard clock speeds. If you want a faster machine, I'd reccomend investing in a new one. I'm all for overclocking in general, but I would never ever consider it on my G1S, as it can't even run games without the 96 degree throttling coming into play, inless I use the sleep trick. Overclocking is just out of the question.

I'm saving a fortune on my winter fuel bill this year by leaving my G1S on, and turning off the heating !

 

like i said, heat is not a problem, it its always cold to the touch when i play, as i have a fan/a/c on it at all times.

so, im guessing i should scale the overclock down in intervals?

whats would be a good amount to go by each time? 10/5? 10/7? 5/3?

thanks in advance =)