overclocking the 8600m GT - Inspiron 1520

okay
i read that it was able to get the GPU overclocked up to around 600 MHz, GRAM Bus up to around 500

well...
how the hell did you guys do that?

i am running vista 32 (do you do that clocking stuff in xp?)(by the way, is anyone suggesting me to switch to vista 64? and is vista 64 included in the dell vista package?), absolute standart settings (again).

and if i get to like 470mhz ram bus my display driver hits the ground and windows gladly tells me, that it was able to restore it.
plus 600mhz gpu doesnt run too stable for me eigther

tell me your secrets please, if you have some, including nvidia graphic settings in the nvidia controll panel (if you touched them at all)

it's like... 'help, my machine should be the same as yours, but i don't loose the feeling, that the world hates me and stuff and it is simply not the same >.>'
#paranoid

 

better drivers for the win

 

also tried 169.01 and 169.04
running 163.64 atm, no further clocking planned until i am shure that i am not destroying something here, because my card is unoverclockable because god hates me or something =)

 

i dono, i'm only able to overclock it to 550/450 successfully for bioshock. maybe you should try atituner to check for artifacts safely.

 

i don't get ne artifacts
i only get a black screen for a second or something and kicked to the desktop where a prompt from the taskbar tells me that the nvlmddmkm or somethin like that displaydriver crashed and got restored

i'm really interested into a comment of one of those 610/510 tuning freaks

 

Same. at that level my driver was crashing every 5 minutes. Hell even turned down a bit, FEAR still crashes the driver frequently.