Overclocking 8600M GT using inspiron 1720

Hello all,

Just ordered my laptop a week ago and i have been looking around in this forum ever since, there is a lot of information on here!

What i definitely want to do is overclock my card to get a little bit of extra performance out of it

Im probably going to use the v171.16 drivers from laptopvideo2go, since they are the newest. I see a lot of people talking about modded INFs so i assume thats what makes the card overclockable using rivatuner (or any other program)..

When i check out the modded inf section at laptopvideo2go i dont see driver version 171.16 in there though.., so i guess that's not going to work..:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/enhancer

Can I just overclock my card without using the modded inf?

Oh yeah and there's another thing i would like to use overclock profiles so i it will be easy to change to clock speeds of the graphic card when im gaming, what is the best program to do that with?

So my plan is to actually always run the graphic card at stock speeds except when im gaming and ill use some crazy shortcut like ctrl+alt+1 or whatever to activate to overclock profile and when im done ill use like ctrl+alt+2 to set it back to stock speeds..

is there any overclock program that works that way? If so, which one?

Sorry for the long story and thanks!

bart (hoping to get his inspiron 1720 tomorrow)

 

You can't install the driver without the modded inf: the regular inf don't include the mobile gpu so if you try to install the driver as it is, it will say that your hardware is not supported. About the overcloking, you can use rivatuner or ntune but I don't think you can map a key to the overclocking. Anyway the 8600 has 3 power settings: 2d, low power 3d and performance 3d; you only set the overclocked speed for the performance 3d which is triggered only when you use graphic intensive apps(games)... So you don't really need a on-demand oc system....

 

hmm so how i am suppose to use the modded INF since its not in the list on the laptopvideo2go website?

 

Don't do it.
Seriously.

I've been OCing since the 286's came out with the math co processor and Dr Freezz figure out how to chill mineral oil to like -40 and we doubled the speed on the gear.

You HONESTLY WILL NOT see enough difference for the risk you're taking with a laptop. Things are just too close together in a laptop- and with gaming, we just get too into the games and too much time at OC speed will pass. I make 3D games and maps and CAD stuff, and honeslty, we're talking the difference between antialiasing (abeit unstable slightly, as most OC's wind up being) vs no antialiasing. What does it translate outside of geek-creds in real world performance?

almost nil.
I've OC'd everything and we've hacked bios too- it was fun.
Yeah

It was fun.
I think the best I ever got on the teams was a 200+% OC (yeah, double the listed) on the entire rig liquid cooled in mineral oil. We didn't publish though. and at 200% full system OC minium was the ONLY TIME I've seen anything more than, say... 60fps turn into 100fps. That's like the one place you might notice a difference... 90fps to 105 fps. But the human eye won't notice it.

sorry not more helpful. Just I am against OCing' laptops almost on principle. I've never heard any really good success stories, but a lot of horror ones.

the GOOD thing you can do, is swap out the components- what is the slot on your video card? Why not sell it and just upgrade off Ebay? you got the 8600- just upgrade to a 7900 series! Heck Dell will probably see it to you right off their website!
LOL!

7600-8600 similar
7800-8800 similar
7900- ...nothing as fast yet.

It's a marketing hype for more pipelines and different cores, but they haven't yet been able to implement the same stuff as on the 7900's and above. The 8xxx series is on par with the 7xxx series with the same designator, essentially, in the real world vs. benchmarks.

Cheers!

 

Yes, it is. It is the link always on the right of the link where you download the driver (whichever it is). Its named 'Modded INF' (or something like that).

 

Ok i got the Modded INF kinda stupid that i didnt see that before thanks though.. So i apply the modded inf (using that have disk method) first and then install the driver that comes with it right?

and tangograndma thanks for the heads up thats why i am planning to work with overclock profiles.. And YES ive overclocked a lot of computers (CPU&RAM) in the past without a lot of noticable result, it was a lot of fun when you start doing it, but yeah i killed a lot of memory and motherboards..

I just think overclocking a graphic card isnt that dangerous then overclocking a CPU.., as long as you dont take to big steps and run 3dmark after each change and look for artifacts..

And another big thing is that the 8600m gt is definetly the big bottleneck of the system, so i hope to see a lot of performance, because, correct me if im wrong, i dont think a stock 8600m gt can handle cod4, ut3, crysis, bioshock, gears of war at stock speed.. maybe at 1024x768, but thats not why i bought a 1900x1200 screen

 

You can use that method, altough I follow the simplified method that you can read on the stickies of this forum (the Gaming forum). They are:
-Download driver, unzip and replace the .INF file with the modded .INF.
-Uninstall you current driver (by the control panel) and restart.
-Install the new driver and restart.

I've done it a couple of times this driver change on my laptop and I've never had any problem.

 

The day 8800m (Dell does not offer) is slower than go 7900 gs which Dell offers, it's the judgment day. Also, I don't think a go 7900 GS would work with the 8600m socket, I am sure dell has different proprietary connections between different laptop models as well.