New to overclocking; Stable OC for 9650m GT?

I have an asus N80-A1 with a 9650m GT. Anyone have a stable OC speeds for the GPU?

Any help would be great.

 

every gpu is made different. there are no stable oc speeds for a family of cards.
you just have to push yours to the limit.

 

Yup, see this guide for how to overclock: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=219954

 

Yeah I read the guide was just hoping someone with the same laptop as me had luck with it. Maybe I should move to the Asus forum.

 

I see. Well give it some time for people to respond. I'll leave the thread here for now because you'll probably get better questions regarding OC'ing here.

 

I've read users in here that have said it overclocks well.

The reason some hesitate to give specific clock speeds is that it encourages unsafe and/or poor overclocking techniques.

 

the best way is to do it yourself, its not hard to do, just watch for temperatures are artifacts and increase the clocks 10mhz at a time at most. the guide linked few post above is very good.

 

20% higher clocks is usually a safe place to start on..

Do not push it 50% higher than standard clocks unless you know what your doing.

 

I'm not sure where the 9650 GT starts, but the 9600 GT is 500/1250/400 (core, shader, memory). I would try 600, 1500, 500, and increment from there. Even the same model GPU or laptop can have different limits, you can never be sure.

 

My N50 gets a 33% overclock on the 9650m GT, and it's stable (5 hours of stress testing)

It's at 735/1838/525

I wouldn't keep it at this overclock though, since it could shorten the life of the GPU.

 

ATI Tools ''find max'' feature can be used to give you some good idea since it will overclock a little, run an artifact test and then run a stress test and it will remember the last clock rate even after a crash.

 

What are the stock clocks for this notebooks 9650?

 

Is there a way to switch easily between overclock and non overclock?

 

stock clocks are:
550/1375/400

The easiest way to switch between the overclock and stock settings is to use nTune. Under "adjust GPU settings," It has 2 options: one for stock settings, and the other has the sliders that allow you to overclock.

Whenever you want to play a game, open up nTune quickly and overclock the card. After you're finished, just hit the factory settings button, and off you go.

 

For Rivatuner, you can just create clock profiles.

 

I haven't been able to get Rivatuner to work with the 9650m GT.

 

avanish11,

I have got a X57AVN ( N50VN mod, p8400, 9650m GT DDR2, Forceware 179.14 (original).-

I normally OC to 15% for gaming, being powermizer always on, and get 5346 in 3dmark06 and 72ºc max temp on stress tests. Do you think this overclock is pretty safe? What about higher OC, but still safe? I don't want to burn my GPU, want it to last till I by another machine

Also, what driver do you use?? If so, better than standard 179.14, and does powermizer work as well?

 

Yeah that looks reasonably safe. I'd say you could push it a bit more, but if the Overclock causes the temp to go over 75C, then turn it down.

I use the DOX modified 182.46 drivers. You should Seriously think of updating, since those drivers are very old.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=366315

 

thanks for replying!

and other than that? official drivers (made for nvidia or asus or something?) Also what's that physX? If a driver has physx then will it run physx or it is just offered as a option?

 

Asus's drivers are old. Don't use them. Nvidia's newest drivers are fairly decent, but Dox's drivers generally give the best performance.

Officially, physX is only supposed to work with SLI; one GPU is used to render the game, and the other is used to process physics. You can turn it on with just one card, though. I'm not sure if it works or not, but nothing bad happens when PhysX is on when you only have 1 card.

 

what nvidia official driver do you suggest?

 

http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_notebook_winvista_179.48_beta.html