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    Can I overclock my Vaio Z?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by runee1000, May 10, 2009.

  1. runee1000

    runee1000 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi: I have a Vaio Z690 running 32bit Vista Business, 4GB Ram, and a 2.53 Ghz processor. As you may already know, the Vaio Z comes with an Nvidia Geforce 9300M GS (w/ 256 vRAM) Graphics Card. What I am wondering is if it is possible for me to overclock the card and acheive greater results. (note, its a hybrid graphics laptop with an intel card aswell). Sorry if this sounds like a really Newbie question but I am new to overclocking so step by step explaining would be greatly appreciated.

    thanks very much
     
    runee1000, May 10, 2009
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  2. Nirvana

    Nirvana Notebook Prophet

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    There are lot of OC tools. ATI tools, ntune, rivatuner. We have guides somewhere on the forum.
     
    Nirvana, May 10, 2009
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  3. JWest

    JWest Master of Notebookery

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    I use NVIDIA's nForce toolset on my card, it works great (even though I'm not using an nForce mobo- it's just a Macbook Pro).
     
    JWest, May 10, 2009
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  4. runee1000

    runee1000 Notebook Consultant

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    thanks for the replys, but would it be possible to explain to me overclocking a card such as what to overclock? sorry for sounding so new at this, but I am new to overclocking, and if I could squeeze a bit better gaming performance on the card, that would be great.
     
    runee1000, May 11, 2009
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  5. kisetsu17

    kisetsu17 Took me long enough

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    There are some guides here in the forums that explain all that..but the basic idea of overclocking is that you should raise your clock speeds one by one, (core, shader, or mem only) 10MHz a time, and then benchmark (for stability, it would take long, but it would take you longer to replace a card/notebook :D) using programs like 3DMark and stuff..

    Good luck at OCing!
     
    kisetsu17, May 12, 2009
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  6. catacylsm

    catacylsm Notebook Prophet

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    Rivatuner and SETFSB had my Sony Vaio fe21s running circles when overclocked, my sony loves it lol.

    As i said, them two tools should be sufficient.
     
    catacylsm, May 12, 2009
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