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    Dell 680M Question

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by imglidinhere, Oct 30, 2012.

  1. imglidinhere

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    Is it true that the 680Ms from Dell are, in fact, crippled?

    From what I hear, aside from halving the framebuffer, the Dell 680Ms are terrible at overclocking, even the "good" batches are hardly capable of hitting higher than stock settings. Is this true? I mean... what's the point of going for Nvidia aside from the driver stability then? >.<
     
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    I don't know where you heard about the "terrible at overclocking" part because from what I know, the 680m overclocks like a BEAST and the chip core is the same, Dell or not.

    Secondly, halving the "frame buffer" is not that big a deal. I know for a fact that it can handle a dual monitor set up pretty well and generally you don't go much more on a laptop.
     
    maverick1989, Oct 30, 2012
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  3. LeoVainio

    LeoVainio Notebook Evangelist

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    That's old news. The 680M overclocks fantastic, and keeps fairly good temps :p and Nvidia = more stability/reliability, better power efficiency, 3D, and a bunch of other stuff
     
    LeoVainio, Oct 31, 2012
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    Mobius 1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    ^ you never heard about the issue with dell 580M's huh? /:

    Widezu on this forums claimed that the dell 680M can't OC to Clevo/MSi 680M levels, it would crash with an OV bios and the memory does not like to be OC'd
     
    Mobius 1, Oct 31, 2012
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    If you cannot get the core to fill up the memory fast enough, overclocking it is pointless.
     
    maverick1989, Oct 31, 2012
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    I have my clevo card overclocked 1ghz core, 1024mhz memory (1024 just for kicks XD) and it is fine as long as I keep the fans on max when I have it overclocked that far. I did have to flash a modded video bios to do it, but it is still stable as anything! runs bf3 on ultra at around 84fps. I can't speak for the dell cards, but if they can't overclock the ram any, that's pretty sad.

    I just did that using afterburner and created several profiles between stock clocks and what I mentioned above.
     
    ajbutch123, Oct 31, 2012
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  7. imglidinhere

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    Oh... well I might just pay for the premium then. :D It was the only thing that was keeping me from snagging the M18x. :3
     
    imglidinhere, Oct 31, 2012
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