Overclocking the 210M

Hey guys,

I was wondering if you anyone might know where I can find a compatible driver with Rivatuner for my Nvidia 210M in my UL30VT. I'm trying to find out how far the 210M can go if overclocked, but I can't seem to find any forceware driver that supports the hybrid 210m/Intel 4500. I just installed the latest driver from www.laptopvideo2go.com, but half way through my screen went blank and then game back after the computer switched to the Intel 4500. The hybrid video card icon went away in the lower right hand corner and I'm not sure if I can switch it back to the 210M. If I can, it probably can't be on the fly (anyone have any idea of how to switch between them if I can't use the little utility that came with the Asus driver? Bios?) I am probably going to revert back to the default Asus driver, but I'm going to fiddle around with the Bios, driver settings first and see what happens. What do you guys think would be the best way to overclock the 210M and leave the hybrid switching intact? Is there any way I could edit my registry on my original driver to enable overclocking?

I'm going to restart and see what happens.

Thanks,

Quad

Edit: I restarted and my resolution dropped. I went into my screen resolution and it no longer recognized that I had any video card installed. The laptopvideo2go.com drivers didn't work at all. I reinstalled the Asus driver and everything is back to normal now. Anyone have any ideas on how to overclock this badboy? Thanks!

 

nVidia System Tools works wonders.

 

Alrighty, so I downloaded and installed them. Now, I went into the performance area of the system tools and tried to change the clocks. But when I hit apply, I got the error "The changes made were invalid and will not be applied." Do you know what I should do to fix the error? I searched around on Google and found a couple posts about it. One guy said it was being caused by an incompatible Nvidia driver being used with the Nvidia System Tools software. What's your take on it?

 

i know what you mean. i had that problem as well.

what you need to do is a proper driver uninstall. clean. install and then install nst and you will be good.

 

Try OC with ATITool.

 

That error can also be caused if you try to overclock a laptop while its on battery, btw.

 

that is due to u using battery power.. always had this problem... use A.C Power...

 

The best overclocking tool is variants of RIVATUNER
You can choose either below
1)MSI Afterburner
2)EVGA Precision

 

I've tried these... they don't for some reason support this card right. With clean install of the factory drivers install nvidia system tools 6.02. That's the version that always worked for me. I'm on 6.05 now, with a clean Win7 Ult. install and a clean factory updated driver install.

 

Alrighty!! I got her overclocked, rip-roaring, ready to tear those video games apart! Thanks for all your guys' help. I got my 3Dmark06 score up from 3461 to 3949. I wrote a guide on how to do it and the results I got from it. The link is in my sig.

 

get it up to 4K and u should have no problems...