Easiest Overclockable Driver?

what the easiest most overclockable driver for the 8600m gt?

i had good results with the new 177.35 driver but, i got horrible downclocking with it.

ive done some research and saw just a couple sugesstions but, they were back in like the 169 series. and like i said the 177.35 gave me excelent inital benchmarks but, then it downclocked in both 3dmark06 and crysis(horrible slowdown overclocked!) i tried the 175.80 driver and 175.16 had to over clcok the heck outta it just to get the result of the 177.35 driver(btw score b4 downclock...3dmark06...3991) so what do guys suggest>?

 

First off although make and model may be the same between your laptop and many other notebooks out there and so may the gpu model, IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE GPU IS THE SAME. Every GPU is unique and every GPU has a different driver it is optimized with.

For best resaults try many different drivers to find which fits your GPU best. Yes I know that it is slow but if you really want best resaults thats who you pull it off.

For drivers www.laptopvideo2go.com

Good luck!

 

yeah i agree i get all my driver at laptopvideo2go.com


heres the specs


vostro 1500
4gb corsair ram
160gb hdd 7200rpm
nvidia 8600m gt 256mb ddr2
intel core 2 duo 2.0 ghz
15.4 widescreen 1280X800 res.

i was just wondering what you guys have had luck using or are currently using to overclock?

 

Trial and error mate, but 174.74 is a good place to start.

 

ok i tried a few for trial and error

175.80
177.35(best so far)
175.16
174.74

none of these except the 177.35 overclock well...and they all have the cursid downclocking....the 177.35 overclocks EASILY but, then 10 secs later it downclocks and im only running at 500/425 overclocks

 

169.25 are suposedly good OCers.

PM TheForerunner , he also has a 8600M GT DDR2 and he OCes his also all the time.

 

not much luck on that one.... had to oc it too like 550 425 and still couldnt get results that matched the 177.35


how come these newer ones have that problem (downclocking) and the older ones dont????


my temps are about 55-58 degrees overclocked after 1hr crysis or a run
or 3dmark06

even overclocked i cant score what the 177.35 scored "midly" oc'd 500/410??


any ideas? any drivers you can suggest>?? anyone?

 

I just tried the new 177.35 driver and got the best 3dmark with it I ever have.

But it doesn't seem to let me overclock?! Or underclock for that matter.
I'm using atitool, and am using 177.35 Nvidia with modded inf off laptopvideo2go.

Can anyone help me?

 

The driver you were previously using to OC, and this

 

i know the feeling i get the best graphics and playablity in cyrsis and the highest scoreive ever gotten with that one. but i hit a wall at 500/410 in rivatuner.....what gives??? maybe i should just be happy


lol

 

k nice replay but, dont disabling powermiser cause your CPU to overheat ?

read that somewhere on this forum....i think

 

Was your response to me? I know I can use the previous driver to OC (174.31), that's not really the point. I'm getting better performance by 100 marks on the new 177.35 driver, and would really like to overclock with it. Seems to be working for everyone else, right? Am I doing something wrong?

I already tried disabling powermizer. I better be more thorough about my config:
8600M GT DDR3 (256MB)
177.35 nVidia driver with lv2go modded INF (XP 32bit)
Atitool for overclocking
Powermizer turned off

EDIT - FIXED IT! Atitool was the culprit, and Rivatuner v2.02 had the same issue. When I installed the latest Rivatuner though, v2.09, all was well. I'm happy.