7600 128mb sony ar11m

right..hello all-my first post and would like to contribute some findings.

standard running pcmark2005-3661...is this crap?

i ran nvtweak to activate setting in nvid

anways..the factory setting are 3d clock frequency-450 Mhz
Memory clcok frequency 500Mhz

when i presses "find optimum" i was s***tin it. its went up and up. all the way to:

clcok frequency 495 & memory clock frequency 590. Wow...and then i press "test"..it said, the system ran for a few sec but stopped responding.

Im afriad to go any further.advice please.

 

It sounds like you overclocked too far if your machine is locking up.

Do the games run fine at stock? If so, then there is no reason to overclock . . don't take an unnecessary risk. However, if you want more performance, only go 5-10MHz at a time on the core & memory, then play a game or do something 3D to see how stable it is.

Could you clarify that statement? 3,661 points in PCMark05 is a pretty high score if that is what you are trying to say, but it would be helpful to know your full system specifications.

 

yes..3661 was my score. Happy to hear its high

spec
t2400 1.83Ghz
1 Gb/Go DDR2 SDRAM (533Mhz)
17" WXGA XBLACK
gEFORECE 7600 128MB
MICROSOFT CENTER EDITION 05

erm..everything standard....not installed the fup hot fix yet..cos don't know if i should....i'm scared to reinstall my pc...sony comes with no recovery disk(need to make yourself)-just brought this laptop lastweek

oh..can i ask? how to check whether m laptop has a seperate fan on the GPU? i'm using NotebookHardware Control and its saying the temp is around 55c, fan comes on at around 59. How to set the fan to come on earlier? i don't run this laptop on batteries.

thanks

 

That seems like a normal temperature for the fans to run on. I haven't heard of any overheating problems with the Sony VAIO FE (I assume that is your laptop), but you could always check out Sony forum. I don't know if it has a second fan for the GPU, but considering that it is a Go7400, I doubt it. Most laptops use a single fan for the CPU + GPU, unless it is one of the larger notebooks with a higher-powered graphics card.

I would definitely create a backup CD in that case since it didn't come with them.

Yeah that is a good PCMark score.

 

its not 7400 that you quoted...its 7600 version...

 

Ah sorry. The Go7600 is a great card and still manages to keep the heat down, so it should still be able to be cooled by a single fan. All the laptops I have used with a Go7600 were like that.

 

The Go 7600 is a great chip that runs very cool, but you'll find overclocking on this particular part doesn't yield great results; changes in clock speed need to be VERY substantial to show any real performance benefit. This one's mostly memory bus and pipeline limited.

You'll gain maybe a couple frames per second, but it's not enough to notice.

Am I the only one who's never seen any actual appreciable benefit in overclocking video hardware that makes it worth the risk of potentially voiding the warranty and damaging the card? Video hardware is pretty delicate and doesn't have the overclocking safeguards built into it like a regular CPU and memory do, at least not as far as I can tell.

 

I've never once overclocked a GPU. If its too bad to play, then a) I need to get back to work on my laptop anyways, or b) I need to get a new laptop.