am i killing my Laptop (GPU/CPU) or are these normal lvls for G50vt OC?

hey everyone, ive been poking around quite a lot over this and many other forums (lurking mostly, until recently surfacing here) sucking up info and after finally getting all the bits i wanted ive been OCing my G50vt x5. anyways, ive read most threads talking about OCing this lappy's 9800m gs to GTs speeds? IE - 600/1500/800? i believe? i don't know if thats the standard or if its safe to push past that but using Set FSB and MSI Afterburn i am happily playing Wildstar with 30-40 FPS average (Having a BLAST btw, never looking back @ OLD/endoftheroad mmos) and currently i Clock at about 2400ghz and i max the sliders my GPU is allowed via MSI which is 690/1725/825 (aside from the memory slider - im scared to play too much with the memory slider as i read they don't have a way to ping their own temps/ one should assume they match whatever the GPU is at?) would bumping the Memory up on the GPU increase performance much or should i leave it be?

are those numbers higher than they should be? (or will they burn my lappy up perty fast if i keep playing OCed like this? i have not flashed bios, GPU-z shows my video card hits 1.11? volts but it never let me mess with voltage in MSI or anywhere else (GPU or otherwise) and as for temps i stick around 40's- high 50s idle (depending on room temp) and usually around 60s- 70s while playing WS. 85 has been the highest ive seen once i cleaned out the fan where everyone else owning this model seems to miss ( i did until the 4th or so diss-assembly) and normally WS puts both of my 2 cores usage at 98% and the GPU 80-98 as well depending.

soo.. any advice or responses would be fantastic, i have yet to crash or BSOD in game and have played for entire nights on end with no issue. HOWEVER i DO and have just recently even BSOD AFTER playing WS and not bringing the OC back down before doing average tasks/ browsing on firefox. seems like i can be poking around desktop with no issues and randomly BSOD when i mess with or open something lappy doesn't feel like doing atm. but not once during 8 hours or more steady in game?


but yeah.. i don't know is this unusual? ( if not is there a not so terrible way to keep SetFSB from also ocing my ram? or maybe UC my ram so the OC on CPU brings ram to norm/just above so i can push the processor a bit more?)

Thanks for anyone who responds/ and their time. i can post pictures i suppose if this IS odd and so requires some

 

Monitor your temps for both CPU and GPU. If you have had your laptop since its release date, it has lasted quite a while already. Just keep it well ventilated and free of dust and dirt.

Personally, I would dial back the overclock a bit, but that's just me. Some GPUs can really take it, but others might die a horrible death suddenly. I have had both experiences, so I tend to be a bit more conservative. First I find my max OC stable then I dial it back down to ensure proper functionality.

I don't think it is unusual, I do remember using my Asus G50 at very similar OC levels. It ran cool enough.

 

thanks for the info, and yeah its never to far past 80 tops (after heavy use, so i think its fine temp wise) but i suppose its time to dig deeper into blue screens so i can narrow down the cause of the odd balls and see what lappy's trying to tell me/ which parts are hurting.
if anyone comes back to this, is under clocking ram an ok idea/safe way to go about being able to push the CPU faster? (again if temps are fine can i keep pushing?)

ps is there anything i can use to get past MSI afterburners slider cap for my GPU cause it seems like he's good for some more imo

 

The G50vt chassis is an owen! Watch your temps and enjoy it until the gs burns out.

 

owen? (forgive me if thats not a typo, if not the meaning escapes me ) also if the temps are so low IE - usually 50-70 and it likes to hang around 50-60 more often than not, should i still expect it to be burning out anyway- even when its as stable as me on a tight rope with a bottle at the opposite end?

also i was really wondering if theres any reason for me to flash to the GTs bios for this 9800m gs when im getting 690/1725/825 just fine? or is there no point. what exactly does flashing the bios do/allow if not to clock higher and volt to 1.11 which for whatever reason i already get on this card?

last questions- what does the memory clock slider do in terms of performance in an OC? is it worth bumping up? i mean would it be better to keep it low because the performance boost isn't much because i don't see many going past 800 with it and cant find much about it other than Vram having no temp sensors so it scares people. could i go higher than 690/1725 with another program? rivia tuner maybe or should i just stop while im ahead

 

I OC'ed a 9800M gs in a hp dv 5 laptop. From factory, the gpu did NOT have thermal paste on it, but a thermalpad(OMG). I replaced the thermalpad with thick ICD7 thermalpaste and made sure the heatsink made proper contact. The result was that a heavy OC, about 700-750 on thr gpu speed would only get the temp to 60 max.
However setFSB burnt something on the motherboard and the laptop no longer boots anything(not from hdd, disk or usb flash - screen just stays black when I want to boot).
In conclusion: you can OC the card even higher, until the point where you get artifacts on the screen, but watch the temp. Don't OC the memory too much cuz you will not get much performance improvements, but it could ruin your card.

EDIT: my bad, it was actually a 9200M GS the one I had, forget what I said above that's a lot lower power consumption card so it's normal to get more temp


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I used to have a G50vt myself. One motherboard and three gpu's fried in the laptop. Temps never reached 80. Never overclocked, even the cpu was undervolted. Maybe bad luck... One of my friends had the same problem, with the G51.

 

85C is not too much to be honest unless u game like 5-6 hours without break. Just repaste and clean the vents, also using a cooling pad never hurts!

 

The G50/G51/G71/G72 were all ovens and a massive fail by Asus.. The overheating issues were only fixed with the G73JH/G53...

 

To be honest, the G50 since it had lower end parts it didn't run remotely as hot as their following incarnations. As soon as they dropped the higher end 260m and upwards, they even reached 100Cs! I remember my GTX260m ran at like 97 degrees..... toasty.

But with my G50 9800m GS, never had an issue. But it seems the quality of those machines was spotty. I do remember a couple of friends having different versions of that G50 and theirs did die, and mine didn't. Weird.