Good 24/7 OC for M170 7800GTX

I got the laptop2go drivers installed and they allow me to OC the video card. Im wondering whats a safe good OC to do for 24/7 ? Or maybe ill just let it go back to stock when I reboot.

Right now its at 400/1060 core/mem. And the temp is around 50c when idle, is that what it should be?

Also a question for m170 owners, how many process's do you have running when you first start windows up? I got the processes down to 37 after formating and turning some off. But thats high to me because my desktop only has 14.

 

my m170 is coming next week and i will tell you what i find.

do you have any suggestions on how to get all that dell stuff off of it? i really dont want it to be slowed by all their useless stuff. if you have any other suggestions that i should know it would be greatly apprectiated

 

either format and reinstall or do it manually tho that wont get rid of all the stuff in registry.

If you dont wanna format my suggestion is run; msconfig and turn off the startup items you dont need running. Goto run and type services.msc and turn off unnessary background services. Heres a good read about the stuff I mentioned. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=5787

Download ccleaner or another program/registry cleaner and run it. Uninstall all programs you dont want that come installed from dell.

 

thanks ill be sure to use that

 

I'd defineatly just try uninstall and a straight up kill on everything before you go through the trouble of a complete reinstall. A clean reinstall is a simple enough thing to do, but maybe it's just me after doing millions of installs, it's just a long drawn out process, waiting out the install, updating all the drivers then updating the OS and installing all the regular software you use and updating all that.

It's so insanely time consumeing and yea, you do get it all out of there, but as long as you have all of it killed and not running, processes in check and system resources balanced, I can't see the justification to go through the extra trouble. If the stufff is setting in the registry as long as it's dormant in there I don't care and can't justify the need to go through all the trouble just to clear it out.

To anyone else though that hasn't done their own install or 10 million of them, it's I'll admit from the first ones I did, a cool experience. You learn from doing and you all have what I didn't when I first started playing with computers, you all have plenty of documentation, and live advice to help you through it all and help get you out of hangups we use to be just stuck with and have to figure out on our own back in the day.

The cool thing about stopping and shutting down running processes is you can generaly just stop a process your not sure about first and see what happens. Ha ha ha, if your screen goes black after just stopping a process your not sure about you know it's not a good idea to kill that one and a reboot brings it back up.

If your going to experiment with killing processes though, just be sure to stop them and not fully kill them right off unless your 100% sure what that process is running for, some can be named in a manor you'd think are safe to kill but aren't.

 

ya see im just afraid that when i do that i will have trouble getting all the drivers and other neccesary stuff back on their. i havent done that to a laptop before so i really dont want to screw up my new lappy. do you know how much of a difference it will make to do that as opposed to not doing anything but deleting some of the unnecessaries?

 

Well, i can tell you from my experience on my MX7515 (still waiting on my M170). Out of the Box, my MX7515 took about 1 min 30 seconds to boot up. EVen after cleaning everything up, it still took about 1 min 5 sec to boot, and overall system performance was a bit "laggy". Even deleting the unnecessaries still left my mx7515's hard drive very sloppy, with files scattered everywhere. I decided to do a reformat, and did some minor tweaking (installing updated drivers, disabling unnessary things in msconfig, running adaware, etc.), and got the boot time to 37 seconds. The computer was not "laggy" anymore, and I could tell there was a huge performance boost. Just get ready for the reformat. Download all the drivers you need from dell.com and burn them onto a CD. Be carefull not to delete the Media partition in fdisk. The first thing I'm doing when I recieve my new laptop is reformating. I can't stand a "laggy" system.

 

thanks that helps i will definatly do that now. i just hope i dont mess anything up. when you do it to your M170 could you give me any hints that you found out, if any. thanks

 

Just have fun with it. I don't think you will really mess anything up. If you have any complications just post here in the dell furm, and you will get help pretty much instantly. I should be recieving my system on monday, and right out of the box I will reformat it. I will post back here and tell ya how it goes (should be nice and smooth). BTW, some of my fav programs are AVG Free, Adaware, TuneXP, and ****Cleaner. I would recemmend ****Cleaner. I used it on my MX7515 about once a week. Keeps the system nice and clean.

Edit: LOL, it edits out the name of the Program. Anyways, go to http://www.ccleaner.com

 

how do i check the OC on my laptop, i also have the laptop2go driver for the m170 and i have a 7800GTX?

 

oh i will. now im under the impression that you should shut down and boot up new computers at least twices before going to work on them. is that a myth or what?