HP DV5T 9600M GT Overclocking Guide

Flipfire. Do you have any other suggestions as to how the 9600m Gt on a dv7 can be overclocked?The most effective one may be...

 

Would this REALLY help out. I do not know what it would do to be honest...

 

Helping my issue?.mmm I don't really know, may be you can try talking a bit about the GPUs

 

I think that since we have the same board as the dv7t, it should work... But Im not sure if the BIOS will work with the dv7t so there is no guarantee. Maybe if someone knows the BIOS version for the dv7t where you can download the custom forceware 180.70 and also rivatuner 2.21 then it would work I think. You don't need any other programs.

 

I just bought one and reinstalled Robin15 and so far I'm quite happy. Vista installed a fair bit quicker but I'm interested in what the Vista score will be now. It was 5.2 previously. I'll run the benchmark again when I get home from work.

They are much much faster Robin15. Read time, write time, minimum/maximum speeds are much faster. As we all know your hard drive is almost always the limiting factor in a pc. Going from desktop to notebook a few months ago I can really see a difference.

Go to Toms hardware, click on charts then notebook drives and do a comparison between your drive and the 7200.3 Momentus. See for yourself the difference is quite phenomenal.

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2-5-hard-drive-charts/benchmarks,25.html

 

I have the same drive for my DV5T and boot times are noticeably faster and vista just responds a little quicker. Your computer will only run as fast as your slowest component, which is usually always the hard drive.

The only thing is the drive really heats up under load, like when writing large files due the the faster spindle speed, but when idle I believe its about 2-3 degrees cooler than my stock 5400rpm drive. Also, anyone serious about upgrading their hard drive read the article from toms hardware DV5-1055TX posted above -- its a fantastic comparison between similar drives. Overall, a good upgrade for me!

EDIT: Almost forgot, my WEI score for the hard drive transfer on the Seagate is now 5.8.

 

Mine went from 5.2 to 5.9 for the new HD and from 4.8 to 5.5 for graphics performance overclocked.



Just pushed my 9600m gt to 640/1500/570 and scored 5931 in 3dmark06

 

wow, u lot are getting high WEI scores with a 7200rpm hard disk, this is gud, i get 5.3 for Hard Disk as i have the stock 5400rpm, but rest i get all the same WEI scores as above. my clocks on gpu are 660.1600.570 and i get 5855 points with 3DMark06

 

hey guys, just overclocked my 9600m-gt to 640/1280/480, however if I push it anything over 480, 3dmark06 starts to stutter and games become pretty much unplayable. Can anyone think of a reason why I cant get anywhere near the 570 that you guys are getting?
At the minute I'm getting 4978 score or somewhere around that at those clocks, however I want to push it further.

 

Anyone gotten the 9600GT overclocking to work with the HDX16t? I set the clocks with EVGA precision or directly from Rivatuner, but the actual clocks reported by evga precision or GPUZ don't change from the default 500/1250, same with the memory.

 

Similar results as DV5-1055TX

WEI Score - Maybe defrag will get my hard drive score to 5.9



3DMark06 score (1280 x 1024)

 

Look earlier on in this forum. Someone did I believe... Ask him

 

Happy New Year Lol!

 

Sounds like you have slightly sensitive memory compared to the rest of us in your card Dansweet. There's really nothing you can do except change the card over for another one. $$$$.

 

@DV5-1055TX,can you please enlighten me a little about "sensitive GPU memory"? I had never heard of that before.

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL dv5t OVERCLOCKERS!!

 

thats the news i didnt want to hear
Is there any chance that its down to any software setting, or changes i may have made, are there any changes I could make in rivatuner to help with this?
Also, would keeping the notebook cooler prevent it from the stuttering etc. which I've experienced (i doubt this as have recorded min and max temps when gaming and its not topping 65C at the minute)

 

I have seen another user around here whose mem wasnt going beyond 480! I seriously dont understand the concept of "bad mem"!
Mine becomes unstable at 575...

 

tbh I'm pretty gutted, but saying that I was fairly happy with performance with the card as standard. Just kind of annoying that everyone is getting 560+

 

I cant go above 640/475! Not sure what it's all about as my temps get to 72C max...

 

I think that someone else had said not all 9600m GTs will have the exact same performance capacities. There are gonna be some unfortunate people out there that have the lower performance capabilities . I will look for a 9600m GT for you guys but I believe it is the whole board. As everyone knows almost every notebook GPU is part of the mother board...

 

Hey guys, this is what I found. I couldn't find anything from tigerdirect or newegg or other sites like those... But this is what I found. I don't know if its worth it and if it will even work... It looks as if its just a card you can snap on somewhere on the board. But wouldn't it be sweet if it would work since its DDR3!!!?!?! I wonder if someone who understands more about technology than me can explain a little further. These GDDR3 cards are significantly BETTER. Check out the pic... I was only able to get a 3dmark score of 5987 with my clock speeds at 1280x1024

http://cgi.ebay.com/Nvidia-MXM-Grap...ptop-9600_W0QQitemZ170284410479QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...s=algo=SI&its=I%2BIA&itu=IA%2BUCI&otn=4&ps=42

 

Swapping GPU's in notebooks in general is extremely difficult and the DV5T's GPU is soldered to the motherboard so no you can't swap for a DDR3 card -- but we can all dream.

 

just d/l the latest bios and rivatuner 2.21. set "enablePerfLefelForcing" to "1" in power user tab under "RivaTuner\NVIDIA\Overclocking" and you will also need to set MaxClockLimit to 100 under RivaTuner\Overclocking\Global.
then go to the Overclocking tab and set Force Constant Performance Level to performance 3D.

 

the temps drop a couple of degrees C, so i would have to assume it does. heat is proportional to power...

i do wonder if the voltages change??? that i can't answer, maybe someone knows how to check gpu voltage and memory voltage.

 

what video driver are you using?

running nvidia's lappy beta drivers, 179.2x, i got bsod...

 

It was some Vista related problem I think. Reinstalled Vista and problem has not resurfaced. For OC I was using Dox 180.70 and the first ever BIOS for the dv5t...

 

I've noticed the same thing, my temps are much lower, around 4 degrees.

 

Drew, shouldn't you have a higher 3dmark score with those clocks?! Is it because you used 180.84?

 

Nope, looks good to me because I am on a higher resolution (1280 x 1024) rather than 1280 x 800. I have got higher scores on 180.84 than 187.70, and the stock HP driver.

Standard clocks (500/400/1250)

180.84 - 4030
187.70 - 3970
HP Stock Driver - 4011

So an increase from 4030 to 5315 on 180.84 is roughly a 30% increase, which is similar to everyone else. Anyways gaming is the real benchmark, and all my games are silky smooth on 180.84.

 

I get super high temps without OCing, why/how could I even try to OC?

 

The problem is that now the game is locked to 30 fps and isn't smooth.

 

Uhm, I just realized you cant test 1280x800 on 3dmark06, so Ive been testing on 1280x1024 also. I guess Ill use your driver also.

 

Well, if your native display resolution on your laptop is 1280 x 800 (in your sig) you can't go higher than that. You would probably have to hook up to an external monitor with a higher resolution to force 3dmark06 to a higher resolution, which I think on the free version will only go as high as 1280 x 1024. Although the 9600m gt in the DV5t will support up to 1920 x 1200.

EDIT: I just got GTA IV today and it runs about how expected -- not great but playable at least (jaggies and dithering are worse than I expected). Right now without much tweaking OC'd on medium-low settings at 1280 x 800 I am getting about 22-27 frames on average with occasional dips (especially rain!). Maybe tomorrow I will post some benchmarks with and without overclocking to show the difference.

 

When the ram is tested in the factory it passes if it achieves the clock it was supposed to achieve. In this case 500mhz. Obviously it's not possible to make ram that just runs at this speed. Because of the amount of chips they make they are run in batches just like everything else. 1 batch might have a highest stable clock at 570mhz, another batch at 480mhz. It's all down to the manufacturing process. The same thing happens with CPU's. In the past Celerons were just slowed down P4's that failed at the desired P4 speed Intel wanted them to run at.

It has nothing to do with any software. The ram doesn't heat up that much to begin with so you probably won't notice much difference. I've run mine at 570 with and without my cooler no issues. 575mhz and bang, 3dmark06 jitters/artifacts etc.

 

man thank u so much ive been workin on this the whole night to overclock my dv5t to the max n iturns out i had to buy the 64bit vista or xp 2 do that so i went n baught vista utimate 64bit n downloaded everything u said n it works gr8

i maximized everything in FarCry 2 except the shadows n geometry r set 2 medium n the lag wuz zero

call of duty 4 wuz all set to max even the res 1280x800 n the multiplayer ping wuz 13-17 26 at big explosions

dv5t 4GB RAM 9600M GT T9400 2.53GHZ 6MB L2 CACHE

 

ok heres how:
go to C:\ then look 4 SwSetup then go to drivers n there it is the BIOS folder rar it n upload

 

Well even after my GPU memory issues, I'm still getting at least 10fps extra on cod4 and 5 (average around 40), and with 1440x900 res on my external 19inch HP monitor I'm getting average 24-25, so not too fussed about my lack of overclocking on my card. 3dmark score is 5215 as well.

 

does 179.28 allow OC?

 

Can any one help me with my question?

I see ppl pushing the shader clock really high, but when i am in rivatuner it only lets my shader clock go to 1200. Is there a way to increase this?

Thanks!

 

Hi guys, i'v got p8400@ 2.26ghz, 9600m gt 512 mo, 3Go ddr3 in a fujitsu siemens amilo xi 3650.

I overclocked my card from 500 - 1250 - 800 (core - shader - memory) to 660 - 1650 - 970.

My 3d mark 06 score was 5200 before o/c and now 6970 ! Wow!

Your scores are under 6000 pts, but why? we have for someone else the same hardware

 

You have GDDR3 memory on your 9600 whereas we have GDDR2 Memory which is slower

 

ok, I didn't know the memory speed had a so important task in game performance

 

anyone think rivatuner will release a version that allows overclock of the "extra mode" so we don't have to force 3d performance?

 

I was messing aruond with RivaTuner one day and it didnt so i stopped trying. But now, when i check GPU-Z, it says the core clock is 400MHz... I want the clock speed to be at the default 500MHz. I dont know how to make it back to default speeds.. ):

 

any help please =[

 

I would suggest setting up a GPU monitor feature and then start a game to see if it jumps up to the default 500Mhz while in a game.

I noticed this as well where my clock would default to 400 but when I started a game it jumped back up to 500.

I have finally been able to get RIVATuner 2.22 to work with driver version 181.22 (this is with the latest system BIOS version from HP).

 

it says at 400 even when playing games :l.

 

GPU-Z will not display the right clocks for some reason -- I had the same question a while back and found it online somewhere, but I can't remember where.

I usually check them with EVGA Precision, if I am not sure they are set right.

Don't worry your clocks are probably right, but GPU-Z just won't read them.

 

Rivatuner shows it as 400mhz i think...

 

Hmm...could you post a screenshot?

You also have to go into RivaTuner and mess with the Power User tab to make it display the correct clocks. I believe its in this guide, or a couple of pages into the guide.