thinking about giving the x300 a slight nudge (OC). any advice?

hey guys, i was wondering if any of you OCed your x300 and what is a safe speed to keep it at consistently and play games on and such. thanks guys.

 

OC'ing a x300 probably won't give you any significant performance boost, but if you want to experiment with it get ATI Tray Tools by Ray Adams. You can get it here: http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/

Once installed right click on the icon in the system tray and pick Hardware->Overclocking Settings. In the window that pops up click on Show 3D Renderer and then click on Find Max for GPU then do the same for MEM. You can keep the settings that the program found for you, but I'd suggest backing it off from the max by a little bit, maybe 10%. If you do this, I'd also suggest you download a program that monitors your computer's temperatures. Something like SpeedFan by Alfredo Milani Comparetti will do. Sorry, I don't have a link to a dl for that, but I'm sure you can find it pretty easy on the web.

 

let us know if that make a big deal or not I might be interested. thanks

 

I've done mine - I've read in a few places how the x300 comes fairly underclocked by default, some people massively overclock them.
I used the omega drivers and the ATI tools - I've got 3 settings, the default one, an underclocked one if I fancy running anything oldish/simple off battery and an overclocked setting of about an extra 100 on both gpu and memory. I ran the 'detect artifacts' check for a good hour without problems. To be honest I never really use the overclocked setting, but I mainly play old rts and rpg games anyway. It did appear to squeeze out a few extra fps on medal of honour, and it might be handy if I do play a few newer games.

 

Advise: Don't overclock... ever.

Overclocking is just for those who don't want to dish out the money for a faster chip. I suppose some people want to have the "fastest processor possible", but give me a break. Is it really worth risking your investment for a few extra cycles? You may not know this, but even if your chip seems "stable", long term overclocking can reduce the life of your processor. I love the way people measure their computer being stable. "If you can run Burn-In wizard for 2-3 hours then your machine is stable." This is from overclockers.com. My definition of stable: If the maching runs for 2-3 months without feezing, then it is stable.

 

You are all incorrect, sorry to say

There were a handful of articles, which were hard to come by, that dealt with overclocking an x300 mobility.

Results were terrific.

Just google it.

I remember the results to be similar to that of a default x600.

So by all means overclock the hell out of it, but please do be careful.

Cheers,
Mike

 

Definately do it. I downloaded the ATI Tray Tools. It is a really nice piece of software. I would reccomend running at 380 core and 270 memory. i did it today and the results are great. The Dell i6000 doesn't generate any more heat than it usual does under gaming!