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    fx1600m/8700GT overclock only show idle clock speed

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by reidy-, Jul 19, 2008.

  1. reidy-

    reidy- Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi I have just bought a dell preceision m6300 with a t8300, 2GB RAM 160GB 7200RPM drive & with the fx1600M graphics card.

    I wish to overclock the graphics card, but in rivatuner it only display's idle clock speeds (100Mhz mem 170core 340 shader) and obviously I have no need to overclock the idle speeds :rolleyes:

    I have tried loading the card (using ATI tools 3d view thing) then checking the core clocks but nothing has moved.

    my question is this: how do I overclock the card?
    I am using omegas 169.25 drivers.


    on a side note the GPU tends to get quite toasty with the fan's only kicking in at 80deg. C is there anyway I can lower the temperature that the fans kick in at to say 65/70
     
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    Change "2D" to " performance 3D" in the window
     
    JCMS, Jul 19, 2008
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    some drivers won't allow you OC.
     
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    hey that that worked and I think the driver overclocks, as the clocks don't reset to there norm values.

    now what about lowering the fan cut in temp?
     
    reidy-, Jul 19, 2008
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