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    Overclocking 8600m Gt DDR2

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by poohole44, Feb 17, 2008.

  1. poohole44

    poohole44 Newbie

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    Hey guys, I'm having some problems when overclocking my 8600m gt ddr2.

    I am able to overclock the Core bus with the Ntune program to 660mhz with no problems, but as soon as I take the memory bus to no more than 428Mhz the games that I will be playing will freeze for a second and then continue running but run extremely slow. And when this happens Vista tells me that something happened to the video driver but has recovered.

    So I have to restart my computer for it to run normal again.

    Could it be something to do with the Video Ram that is being shared? because when I check on the Nzone site, it tells me that i have over 1gb of video ram?! and it is only supposed to be a 256mb card.

    I have tried all different drivers from laptopvideo2go site but nothing seems to change the problem I am having.


    Any help would be greatly appreciated,

    Cheers, Ben!
     
    poohole44, Feb 17, 2008
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  2. ryanpick

    ryanpick Notebook Geek

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    use rivatuner
     
    ryanpick, Feb 17, 2008
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  3. poohole44

    poohole44 Newbie

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    Yeah I just tried that program then, and the same thing still happens?!?
     
    poohole44, Feb 17, 2008
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  4. SteveJonesy

    SteveJonesy Notebook Evangelist

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    Bottom line is some of the cards oc better than others. My VRAM will go to about 440MHz before causing the driver to crash, others have managed much stable, higher memory overclocks.
     
    SteveJonesy, Feb 17, 2008
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