Rivatuner quick question

Hey so I'm trying to overclock for the first time. Nothing fancy, I'd be happy with a small/moderate increase in performance as long as the heat increase is minimal. Will rivatuner only overclock when I'm doing something graphically intensive? Or will it be on all the time, even when I'm word processing (I'd rather not have that). Thanks.

Oh yeah, my system's default settings are 475/1000/700. Should I just go for a 50 point increase or so? The maximums are 715/1425/1055.

 

There's 3 power states for the GPU: Standard 2D, Low Power 3D and Performance 3D. When you overclock you're overclocking the Performance 3D tab, since it's used for graphics-intensive apps (ex. Gaming). Therefore, it wouldn't affect things like word processing or surfing the net since the clocks will revert back to Standard 2D.

I've read people who have overclocked their m1530 past 600/1200/800 easily, without any reduction in stability.

 

Ok I see, there's 3 power states. Do I still need to click the checkbox 'apply overclocking at windows startup'? Or will that cause overclocking all the time?

 

I think that Rivatuner works on the overclocking all the time - not just when you're doing heavy graphics work. There's a related post on Rivatuner here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=2957527

 

If you don't select that box, you will need to reapply the overclock every time to start up Windows.

Unless you overclock the Standard 2D and Low Power 3D clocks as well (which I don't see the logic in), you aren't going to see a difference in general usage.