When did I reach my 9500M GS OC limit?

I used the famous 169.04 driver. I lost the exact number for the 3d mark so i'll do an average
Stock: 475/400, 3511 points, max temp(UT3): 65
OC: 711/475, 4442 point, max temp(UT3): 71

I know the mem cannot be raised anymore, since I got strange color pixel on the screen with higher setting. For the core, it's at the max that rivatuner let me overclock and I didn't see anything looking like a too much overclocked card. So what should I see if the core was too high and is there a way to OC past the rivatuner limit?

 

You are still using 169 series drivers? The 179.13 drivers are the latest ones and probably obliterate those ancient 169 drivers. You should know that 175.19 introduced tweaks to the shaders so that some games like Bioshock and Crysis got double-digit percent framerate increases.

-J.B.

 

I know they are better, but I can't overclock with newer driver.

 

I tried ATITool. I could overclock with it, but I saw artifacts with what I thought safe from running 3d mark. So I guess it means I already reached my limit.

 

Hi.

That GDDR2 is a real bottleneck for you!

Regards

John.

 

Still, theres one of my question that wasn't answered: is there a way to overclock past rivatuner limit (715MHz core for example)? Is it also safe to OC shader past 2xcore ?

 

try nvidia ntune! , I have clocked my 9200m core to 750 and memory to 850 GDDR3 of course.

Regards

John.

 

Mat, I was able to crank my shaders up to 3x the stock core speed. Give it a try with the unlinked shader clocks.

 

I knew you did, and I was trying it when you posted. Here's the result:

675/1350/465: 4338
675/1425/465: 4378

There no real gain. I would need to go past the 1425 limit. Is there a way to?

Edit: I used the default 1280x768. I'll use yours to compare.
Edit2: Here the result for the 1366x768 resolution with max shader clock: 4259. TehSuigi, if you want to overclock something else than shader, use the 169.04 driver.

 

I might just!
Actually, I found a post on LV2Go's forums that might allow overclocking on other drivers.
I'll be testing this once I have access to a backup just in case.

EDIT: And plus, you do have a faster CPU (by one step) and 1GB more RAM on a 64-bit OS. The comparison is a little skew'd.

 

Seems like I have missed that post. Tell me what are the result, it would be great if it worked, I could get the blu-ray workin again.

 

OK, the steps used did NOT work on my installation of 175.61.
So if you do want to overclock, it'll be on 169.04.

 

Or maybe the new 178 series as someone told me after. Taken from nvidia website:

 

hi, i see that you have the 9500m gs... i also have that video card. the problem is that I cannot find the newest forceware driver for my acer aspire 6920....please let me know if you have found the latest update for it.. i think its: 178.24

 

New drivers are being released on an almost-daily basis. Are you looking for released by Acer with WHQL certificates (so it won't break your Blu-ray playback)? If so, 176.37 is the latest release.
Otherwise, the newest driver that's causing a hubbub is 180.43, a.k.a. Big Bang II.

 

no BR but, i can't find where to dl them, all i can find is the ones from the nvidia site, but they don't work

 

go on laptopvideogo.com

 

That's laptopvideo2go.com, mat.
Follow the guide too, to make sure everything goes according to plan.

 

i tried that but it didn't have any drivers =-(

 

Try this link:
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/drivers?dev=0405&sub=01461025&whql=0&lang=0&orderby=version&dir=desc

Also, no one responded me yet on my other question. Is there a way to overclock past rivatuner limit?

 

thanks i'll try that