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    awesome gf 8600gt o/c on xps 1530

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by mirage_bg, Jul 13, 2008.

  1. mirage_bg

    mirage_bg Notebook Deity

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    I've gust bought this laptop yesterday and today I tried with gpu o/c and was surprised a lot...take a look..:

    475/950/700 by default @ 700/1400/1050
     

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    Nirvana Notebook Prophet

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    what resolution?
     
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    David NBR Random Reviewer NBR Reviewer

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    just curious, what's your resolution?
     
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  4. mirage_bg

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    1280x854 :)
     
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    did you track temps? have you ran the test multable times or played a game at those settings? nice score.
     
    tangent, Jul 13, 2008
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    ScifiMike12 Drinking the good stuff

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    ^^ Hahaha!

    1310720 pixels vs. 1093120 pixels

    Thus, your score should be around ~5000 or so points if you used the default (supported) resolution.

    Oh well. Pretty good overclock though. :)
     
    ScifiMike12, Jul 13, 2008
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    Tusin Notebook Evangelist

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    Mike, no need to laugh at him. It is not like he is saying "oooh looking at my amazing 3dmark score, I am better then all of you, and my epeen is amazing" or anything. I would go on a hunch that he just does not know that the default resolution for 3dmark06 is 1280x1024.

    And @ the default resolution his score will be around 55-5700, not 5k.

    With that being said. Dude, I hope you are ok with probably frying your brand new laptop. Monitor those temps! AND, if you do not know, there is no thermal monitor for the ram on the video card. When GPU-Z (or whatever thermal monitoring program you are using) reports, it is only reporting the core.
     
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    It's because he uses Opera.

    yay opera.
     
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    xystus Notebook Consultant

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    That's a pretty brutal OC.. what's your core temp? Does it exceed 85 degrees?
     
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    No, I am using cooling pad and with it doesn't reach 77-78C, without it the temp is about 81-82C

    tangent, yes these settings are for playing, for test I can pass above 720Mhz for core and about 1075-80Mhz for memory. I think if I had enough time for tests ~7K is not so big deal...but anyway it's new machine for me and I still have mercy :)
     
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    try using 1280x1024 so it's easier to compare with others. nice machine btw :cool:
     
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    Most people on these forums tend not to use x1024.

    Just because that requires external monitors.

    The x800 scores I think are fine for comparing laptop to laptop though.
     
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    OP, did you read my post?

    Seriously, I will not be shocked that within a week we will see another post from you saying "Oh Noes, my GPU is Hosed".
     
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    I already achieved 6700 pts on 3DMark06- res- 1280x800 gave me exactly 6781 pts. The card is clocked on 725MHz for the core, 1450MHz for shaders and 2100 (1050MHz DDR) for the memory. I believe when I try with external monitor I will recieve arround 6100-6200 pts. As I said before- if I find a way to clock my CPU on my XPS as ones I had before on my old laptop ([email protected]) and push my system memory on 866MHz together with FSB, 7K are for sure on 1280x800... ;) aaaaalmost like 8800M GTX, but not exactly.. ;PPPP
     
    mirage_bg, Jul 22, 2008
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