Gma 500

After fruitless attempts with google searching, does anyone know the software used to OC the GMA 500 (or if it's even possible)? It seems that GMA Booster works only with GMA 950.

 

Why? it would be useless. The issue with those aren't the core but the lack of memory bandwidth. And you can't overclock the memory on one since it's always shared with the system.

 

You can overclock your system memory if you overclock the FSB.

Could be easy, just a simple PLL pin mod. I can help if you don't mind taking apart the notebook to find the PLL.

Though a pin mod will void your warranty, so it's up to you.
But your CPU would also be faster, do you have an atom ATM?

 

Just use SetFSB to overclock the CPU, memory and the GMA500.

 

+1. GMABooster just brings underclocked core render clock speed back to stock levels. GMA950 is still not a performance graphics chip. Overclocking would see far better results.

Otherwise consider a DIY ViDock using the wifi mPCIe slot. Some netbooks, like Lenovo S10 series also have an expresscard slot so could use it instead. Would be quite a sight to see an atom crank out some decent FPS using say an external HD5670/HD5750/HD5770.

 

The GMA 500 comes with a single core Atom Z with no hyperthreading.
Doing a external GPU would be a waste.

Atom Z + GMA 500 = Low power consumtion and thats the only thing its good at, and the GMA 500 can hardware decode HD.

 

It would be GMA booster....

 

Z-series Atoms have Hyperthreading.
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=35463
Anyway overclocking GMA500 wouldn't bring you any significant performance boost - GMA500 is essentially the same chip that powers iPhone 3GS It's not intended for performance uses. More like multimedia, since it has hardware VC1 and h264 decoding support that GMA950 is lacking.

 

Well I would be more happy if anyone can actually confirm gma booster works. From reading their FAQ and looking at their download page, it doesn't look like the gma 500 is actually supported. I read that Powerstrip has gma support, so maybe that will work. My netbook/mid/umpc hasn't arrived yet. But I beg to differ with everyone saying it's not going to make any difference. When something sucks so bad, even gaining 1 fps is a joy.

 

I doubt any software that enables you to overclock any other GMA's won't work on GMA500 since it's not even a Intel's chip - it's PowerVR's.

 

Well guess what, gma booster doesn't support gma 500. A software called "powerstrip" detects the 200mhz speed, but doesn't let me adjust it.