For those of you using nTune........

What are your current values for your 8600M GT set at? For the Core Bus I have it set to 720 Mhz and the Memory Bus is set at 810 Mhz. I ran the stability test for 10 minutes and everything checked out! I want to see how much higher I can go based on you guys.

 

625/850 for me... no problems.

 

You should see how much higher you can go not based on what others have done, but what your computer can handle. Some people use coolers, others live in warmer/cooler houses, a more humid area, their laptop sits in the sunlight of a window, etc. All those factors can cause one laptop to overclock higher than the same laptop in a different environment. I guess you could get a ballpark figure if you wanted.

Just increase your clocks 5-10MHz at a time until your system becomes unstable, then lower them 5-10MHz and you'll be fine.

 

When I do that though, it gets to the point where my entire screen gets jaggy and distorted. I guess I can lower it then and restart to get rid of them........Also why don't my overclocks save? I can close the program and come back in and they are still there, but when I restart and come back they are back to usual values. I am using an overclockable driver as well.

 

Is it advisable to use the tuning feature to let it find out automatically what it can do?

 

Definitely NOT !
OCing is done step by step with trial and error.
As |Crash| pointed out, 5-10 Mhz at a time.

 

Wow guys.........I just ran 3DMark06 again and got a whopping 5,132 3DMarks! That's about a 1,000 improvement over my stock graphics card, wow!

 

What are people views on OCing an IGP, has anyone done it and got a noticable improvement?
I've got a GeForce 7150m, and while playing games the nTune GPU temp monitor reads ~78*C, is it probably best to leave it at that?

 

What is the current best CPU overclocking utility for free? What is the standard right now to use?

 

yep. if it goes that high you should just leave it be.
However you can go up to 90C when gaming , should be ok. I just don`t think it`s worth it.

 

The 8600s will throttle itself down at a certain tempertaure which is configured in your bios. Each card/company has its own critical temp where it will clock itself down and won't let you clock it back up till restart. In my experience tis occurs when you clock the memory too high, while if you clock the core too high it simply artifacts.

So your fine until that card reacches its threshold. You gotta worry when you change your bios settings to increase those temps, though thats when the real fun begins.

 

I now have my card running as hard as it can without artifacting, and I have now arrived at a 5,194 3DMark06 score. Pretty darn good.

 

lol I just clocked up to 700/1100, was ok for a few seconds but then froze, I think I can get it up to 650/1050 ok....sorry not really the same gard at all just wanted to share that lol

 

I have mine at 680/900.

 

thats a very good OC! stable of course?

 

I have my 8600m GT 256MB DDR2 card OC'd to 575/470 ATM. I used RivaTuner, though

 

Ya, so far it runs just fine. No artifacting or crashing.

 

I OC to 600/1200/900 with the same specs as Bowler Guy except 1280x800 res and I get 5673 3D Marks.

 

Hang on.......you got the memory all the way up to 1200? Or.......which one is which I guess XPS? I just played the Crysis demo over again and things are so much smoother. It's phenominal.

 

I finally got Rivatuner working. I went in and put everything the same except for the memory clock which now sits at 950 Mhz. I will run a 3DMark06 bench later tonight and see what sort of an improvement that gets me.

 

Please try not to double post.

Good luck Overclocking

 

Who the hell are you talking to?

 

You; I mistakenly thought you had one or two double posts