GT525M O/C'ed to GT550M

Hi all this is my first post. Been reading this site for years so I thought as I felt like I had something to share.

Started off mobile gaming on a Dell XPS M1710 with a 7950GTX card in it which the card died in it just over a year of owning it Never needed to over clock anything on that system so I left it standard.

I randomly got linked a inspiron 17r with a i5 6gig ram 640gb hard drive and a GT525M 1gb card which I thought was going to be more then enough for any gaming at med graphics/res. (I got this brand new from their outlet shop for £430 delivered)

Well after lots of reading from all over the internet it seems like the 525/540/550 are the same card just clocked differently.

I'v overclocked my card to the exact speeds of the 550M which has added nearly 2000 points to my 3D Mark 06.




I can now play every game at the top res with high settings in most games, Plays fable 3,Deus Ex and dead island all at a good frame rate at high settings.

I had a GPU heat monitor and it never got above 69c in the whole 5 hours of me playing dead island the other day as well.

Seems pointless buying a "top end" i7 with a GT550M for lots of extra cash for not much extra gain.

My best mate owns a XPS 15 with an i7 and a GT445M my system benches more this his in 3D mark.

Hope this post saves someone some money

 

GJ with the OCing, but a GT 550m is hardly "top end". It's pretty much middle of the mid end.

 

But you forget GT550M can clock even higher, you just reached it stock frequency, anyway nice overclock.
I went from 500/800 to 600/1120 on my 5830 mobility

 

Great, you reached the point where you should start thinking of a machine as capable of gaming.

Now add on another 20%. =p

 

550GT are higher quality chips than 525GT; meaning if you can OC your 525GT to 550GT stock values, a 550GT is capable of OCing AT LEAST that amount again over its stock clocks.

 

Im sorry but no one else laughed at this?
The Gt550m is no where near the top my friend
its close but no cigar

 

kingsknight, what did you use for overclocking? did you undervolt too?
i have the same laptop, but with i7, and i have tried MSI Afterburner to get to your frequencies. unfortunately, the temp rose as high as 80 C so maybe i'm doing something wrong...

 

I just don't think people understand that since it uses a similar core, that the 550M is not going to magically run as well as a 560M. The architecture has limits, certain amount of shaders, etc. I don't care how much you overclock a 525M, it still only has 96 shaders. Not saying that is terrible, but anything with more shaders and decent overclockability will destroy it.

 

you're probably right. however, i only wanted to increase the 525m's performance just a little, maybe, as close to the 540 or even 550 if it's possible.
however, i haven't bought the laptop for gaming (this came as a bonus, the old one could only run early 2000's games) so it's not something i'm adamant to do.
still, it bothers me that, although autodetected as High, Skyrim does not go above 30 fps.

 

A - Good move on getting a 525 up to 550 clocks. Sure, it's just mid-tier, but it's a big boost for what you're working with, so cheers to that.

@tzobor - I wouldn't trust autodetect too much - your best bet is to figure out what settings you can tweak to get Skyrim as pretty and as smooth as possible for yourself. It's better to get 40 FPS with good graphics than 20 FPS with very good graphics.