The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Benefits of OCing an 8800m series GPU

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by rot112, Nov 17, 2008.

  1. rot112

    rot112 El Rompe ToTo

    Reputations:
    93
    Messages:
    1,023
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    i made a thread like this a while back but i forgot to ask a question.

    How much of a boost do you guys with 8800m gpus get when you OC your cards.
     
    rot112, Nov 17, 2008
    #1
  2. naticus

    naticus Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    630
    Messages:
    1,767
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    i OC with setFSB and its drastically better 20%and up in some games (cod4 for example) than just an GPU OC.
     
    naticus, Nov 17, 2008
    #2
  3. link1313

    link1313 Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    596
    Messages:
    3,470
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    I don't really want to mess around with O/Cing a 8800m because its strong enough for me at the moment.
     
    link1313, Nov 17, 2008
    #3
  4. spradhan01

    spradhan01 Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    1,392
    Messages:
    3,599
    Likes Received:
    5
    Trophy Points:
    106
    I dont think any games right now needs overclocking this card to play it in high settings. It is the beast.
     
    spradhan01, Nov 18, 2008
    #4
  5. Magnus72

    Magnus72 Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    1,136
    Messages:
    2,903
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    I get a pretty nice boost of my 8800m GTX SLI overclocked to 625/1500/950. In Crysis for instance I see the fps rise by an average of 5 fps. Though in Far Cry 2 I see anywhere between 6-10+ fps when overclocked.
     
    Magnus72, Nov 19, 2008
    #5
  6. xxERIKxx

    xxERIKxx Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    159
    Messages:
    1,488
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    i oc my 8800m to 645/945. gives me a very nice boost in most games.
     
    xxERIKxx, Nov 19, 2008
    #6
  7. kal360

    kal360 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    270
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    which drivers are u using which allow ocing
     
    kal360, Nov 19, 2008
    #7
  8. xxERIKxx

    xxERIKxx Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    159
    Messages:
    1,488
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    ive never had a driver that i couldnt OC i on. i am using 179.14 at the moment.
     
    xxERIKxx, Nov 19, 2008
    #8
  9. rot112

    rot112 El Rompe ToTo

    Reputations:
    93
    Messages:
    1,023
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    I would like number guys. Like 5 fps second or something. Anyone here OCing on nVidia 180.44 drivers. If so how did overclocking it go and how much of an FPS boost do you see from this driver compared to others.

    Edit: I just notice 180.48 was released is OCing on it better and how much of an overclocking benefit do you get from using this driver compared to 180.44.

    Thanks guys, and please include your crysis FPS diffrences too.
     
    rot112, Nov 20, 2008
    #9
  10. v_c

    v_c Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    124
    Messages:
    635
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Don't bother overclocking. A safe overclock will be so small as to be unnoticeable, and a noticeable overclock will be so big as to be unsafe (in the long term, temps etc).
     
    v_c, Nov 20, 2008
    #10
  11. Garandhero

    Garandhero Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    262
    Messages:
    1,522
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    56
    use setFSB and OC your proccesor, this also applies a small OC to GFX since your increasing FSB so you kill 2 birds with one stone. I doubt the 8800MGTX is the bottleneck right? Crysis is prolly a pretty CPU intensive game as well (not sure) so setFSB should help.
     
    Garandhero, Nov 20, 2008
    #11
  12. Mimino

    Mimino Notebook Communist

    Reputations:
    1,181
    Messages:
    1,474
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    i think he has a gts :) and you can't overclock stock gateway cpu :(
     
    Mimino, Nov 20, 2008
    #12