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    advice wanted from sucessful overclockers

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by jkim, Jul 22, 2007.

  1. jkim

    jkim Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    rivatuner/atitools

    keep changing back to default clock speeds (is it because of the drivers or something else?)

    if it is a driver prob -
    what drivers for the 8400m gs are you using?
    i'm currently using 163.11 vista32bit
     
    jkim, Jul 22, 2007
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    hlcc Notebook Evangelist

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    no its suppose to do that!!
    ntune etc are all software overclocks, every time you restart the program(eg restarting the computer) it resets back.

    consider this a good thing, if you ever fry your gpu Dell would have no way of kknowing you OCed
     
    hlcc, Jul 22, 2007
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    Is this true? Because if so, I might think about this.
     
    larson, Jul 22, 2007
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    jkim Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    im pretty sure it shouldn't reset. whats the point of "overclocking" when after you press "ok", it resets
     
    jkim, Jul 22, 2007
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    I"m not familiar with that... but some OC progs resets at reboot and reloads at startup to prevent you from screwing up your computer. Then again, I haven't been OCing for a long time.
     
    blahdude84, Jul 22, 2007
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    jkim and I are both having the same problem. It has nothing to do with restarting the computer! Literally the INSTANT you set the memory or GPU clocks to a higher frequency, in RivaTuner, nTune, and ATITool, the slider snaps right back to the stock speed.

    And we're using different driver versions. I have the 162.13s under Vista.
     
    phobos512, Jul 22, 2007
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