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    Coudl this be the work of Powermizer?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Dragonpet, Jan 31, 2008.

  1. Dragonpet

    Dragonpet Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi,
    I have been trying out different clocks for my laptop, but every time I hit a higher clock, the card will automatically lock down itself to either lower performance 3D or even 2D profile! With that say, since lower 3D and 2D doesn't provide enough voltage like the Performance 3D does, the card gets immediately unstable and sometimes crashes if I continue the stress test using ATITool (Great program, showed me that my card down clocks itself). The temperature is fine, no more than 60 C at all times, I even have to fan set to kick in if, it hits 60. So right now I believe it is powermizer that is giving me the issue but I am not sure. Is this some sort of protection mechanism put down by Nvidia/Dell? Is there a way to override this setting? many members on here have over clocked to high frequencies, do you encounter this problem?
     
    Dragonpet, Jan 31, 2008
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