Weird little quirk with the nVidia 9300M GS and nVidia System tools + OCing

...plus even RivaTuner.

Okay, so I figured somehow the card can still be squeezed more, so I tried to overclock it.

First I tried it with NVIDIA system tools, the downloadable one from their site.

I tried raising every slider (Core, Memory, Shader) 10MHz each, and when I hit apply, this prompt pops up:

"The changes made were invalid and will not be applied."

Hmm, weird. So I jumped and got RivaTuner 2.24 instead.

Opened the program, rebooted and detected default clocks (580, 400, 1450), went to 3DMark and had 1641 3DMarks, and then tried to overclock.

I moved the sliders (again) a little at a time, since it wasn't exactly 10Mhz, I rounded off to whichever is nearer being 590, 409, 1461. Clicked Apply, and then here's the weird bit: When I click OK, an instant before the window closes down all the values return to the default! Meaning, it doesn't get OC'd, or does it?

Does this mean I can't overclock my card? -_-' Thanks.

PS I am currently using Nvidia's 179.48 drivers.

 

bump..

aren't there any issues with yours and OC'ing? T-T