Anyone game with a HD 4650 Moblity

How do you find it for gaming?

 

It's a pretty decent card for gaming. most modern games will run on med-high settings with pretty good res.

 

good card. mine is oc'd at 675/800, but even at stock for example cod:mw2 is a piece of cake for it maxed. with oc it doesn't even dip below 60 fps almost at all.
on some games u gotta sacrifice some detail tho, but it's still a very good card for its price.

 

At which resolution you get it maxed?

 

well only tried at my native res which is 1366x768.

(maxed + 4xAA btw)

 

Amazing, I am expecting my new Asus with the Mobility 5730 and same resolution. I guess I can rest assured the performance will be similar.

 

You HP guys have all the luck. Sony has this card heavily underclocked, so I can just overclock it to match the stock clocks, if I go beyond them its way too unstable.

 

what are the stable clocks for 4650 randomdude, and what are your temps when in game at stock clocks

 

yea, i've seen that, seems they were really lazy with the cooling or something, i recall it's underclocked to hell.
why put a good card in then in the first place?

yeah, it should do well if not better..

 

well i think its ok to clock it to stock closk, i run a cooling pad on my underclocked 4650 on sony and i get 44degrees, im doing a stability test now and my temps are 55 degrees under 98% GPU load at stock clocks so pretty good, i think sony just wanted to make a very cool laptop

 

Sony wasn't lazy with the cooling because ofthen they use the same gpu, but higher clocked in the same laptop model, which is higher priced. I think its just to make us buy their more expensive versions of certain models, while in fact they push us to other brands rofl.

 

the cooling in the sony is pretty good, mines never got hot tbh always under 50degrees while idle, i can see there logic in underclocking the card for cooler as laptops arnt really meant for gaming so thered be no point i nthe extra heat, however i reckon its ok to increase it, if you got a good laptop cooler and a cool room

 

wow. i tell u i can reach around 75 C under heavy load. (gta iv even 85) but so it'd do even at stock clocks. now with cooling set higher it stays oc'd at lower temps than at stock clocks with stock fan speeds.
but i gotta take back what i said about sony's cooling. weird if it gets unstable higher tho. these gpus should be fine even at 90 degrees, actually the specs state like 100, but it can't be good on long run.

i c, in that case they'd be bunch of asses. just weird that SomeRandomDude stated his card gets unstable after stock clocks. or maybe he just got a worse chip, not all cards are equal. maybe mine was supposed to be 4670, but ati had already enough to stock and decided to make it an 4650 to meet the demand.. :]

 

so you reckon with my temps its ok to overclock to stock clocks if iget 55 degress under 98% gpu load?

 

The reason it gets unstable is not the heat. Maybe the voltage (50 Mhz cant be the dfference between fully stable and not stable at all)

 

good point, maybe it indeed is undervolted too. damn, those little..
well pumping the volts should be doable altho it might be a bit of a hassle.
i can't recall just now which tools worked for 4650 in that tho.
maybe the only way was thru editing and flashing the bios, but since the gpu bios might be shared with the lappie bios (some manufacturer's do that) it could be a bit tricky & risky.