Who has OCd their 9600M GT?

How far have you guys been able to push it?

The most I got so far is 640 core/540 memory/1600 shader.

Haven't experimented much more than that. Has anyone gotten higher clocks?

 

Your shader clock should be able to go a little higher, myself and another individual managed to get the shader up to 1750 MHz without problems.

What driver and application are you using to overclock?

 

Are you using a cooler at all?

 

Not sure about the other guy, but I'm not.

 

I'm curious as to what the temperature increases are as a result of OC'ing vs. the standard clocks. Have you recorded the temps?

I'm hesitant to OC my 9600M-GT 512MB DDR2 since my HP gets hot as it is. 80-85*C without OC'ing is high enough.

As noted, could you also state what driver and application you are using to overclock?

 

I'm using the 180.42 drivers and I am OCing with Nvidia System Tools.

What were your core/mem clocks when you pushed your shader up to 1750? I think our cases are different though as I have the GDDR2 version of the 9600M GT. I haven't tested actual in game performance but I've run 3dmark06 and my temps have never gotten above 75C with the Zalman NC1000 cooler.

 

Sorry to tell you this but you can not overclock the hp.

 

He can but only if he risks damaging the notebook. Overclocking on a Pavilion model is extremely risky as the laptop itself is so thin that heat dissipation becomes a problem. And finally after a year or so, the OCed card fails.

 

It is not about heat. The BIOS converts the clocks back to the default what ever you try. Ntune, rivatuner, nvidia copntrol panel,... none worked. The software shows the overclocked values but in reality, (ie in a game or on 3dmark) the results are the same. As far as I know you have to flash the BIOS of mb and the gpu and put a custom bios to get overclocking work.

 

Are you talking about the dv5/dv7? I'll be getting an HDX16T soon and I want to be able to overclock it.

 

Knowing their OCing limitation inside their tiny chassis, HP might have disabled it intentionally.

 

I got 16t and 18t with the same issue so none of the HPs overclock at this moment. I don't think HP is doing this because of the heat issue. They just don't want you to change anything in their computers.

 

Thanks for the info. A shame no doubt, however it doesn't bother me too much since I haven't played games on my dv5t since I ran benchmarks on it for the review back in July.

In any case, for overclocking always watch those temperatures.

 

I think both 16t and 18t are awesome machines. Overclocked or not overclocked.

 

My core and memory speeds were stock, because System Tools did not allow me to adjust it. The other gentleman I mentioned really pushed his hard:



Apparently he still gets acceptable temperatures (~85C), and reading some of his responses, I will have to assume he isn't using a notebook cooler. By the way, he scored a hair over 7000 in 3DMark06 at 1280x1024 with that clock speed.

 

Does anyone else use 178.24 like this guy? Any results to report on performance boosts/temps?

 

I can't speak for 9600m GT, but the jump to 178.xx gave me a ~10-15% FPS boost in all games.

 

That's pretty crazy. My clocks won't go above 650/550 without being unstable so it's clear that the GDDR2 version of the card can't come close to that.

 

Now that is an impressive feat. A stock 9700mGT, coupled with a 2.53Ghz T9400, scores ~6k in XP.