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    Overclocking 7950m (envy 15' 3200)?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by SpaceCaseSixtyTen, Jul 30, 2012.

  1. SpaceCaseSixtyTen

    SpaceCaseSixtyTen Notebook Enthusiast

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    How do i do it? What programs/files do i need? What speeds have you guys been able to set it to without having it crash/artifact?
     
    SpaceCaseSixtyTen, Jul 30, 2012
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    Follow his Instructions and you should be good...
     
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    I'm guessing Afterburner 2.23 will work/
     
    sabot00, Jul 31, 2012
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    It should it's pretty much the same thing... I don't personally use it so I'm not sure...
     
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    Hmm... using Afterburner 2.23, the monitoring works fine (all temps and clocks), but the input for setting clocks reads 0 and whenever I press Enter after typing in a clock it goes back to 0.

    Just to make sure, when I extract the ATIDrivers into the Afterburner directory, do I extract the folder or just the two .dll's?
     
    sabot00, Jul 31, 2012
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    I'm pretty sure you just put the 2 files in the MSI folder. I've only tried this once so I'm pretty sure that's what I did...

    Oh and I'm pretty sure you have to run a program on High Performance to get the AMD Card going then open MSI Afterburner. So just run a game before you try to overclock...
     
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    Ahh... I see, I had the folder in there. Interestingly, I use Minecraft to get the 7850M going as minecraft starts very fast and alt-tabs fast as well.
     
    sabot00, Jul 31, 2012
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    yeah 2.23 didn't work for me. I read the patch info for 2.23 and there is nothing new that is necessary for our card.

    As for overclocking, i got it to 650 and 1100 and it increased frames from about 32 to allmost 40 fps in battlefield 3 on medium high settings. I didn't try going higher even though i'm sure it can.
     
    SpaceCaseSixtyTen, Jul 31, 2012
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    I'm pretty sure the stock is 625Mhz, that's a 25Mhz (4%) OC you have.
     
    sabot00, Jul 31, 2012
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    SpaceCaseSixtyTen, Aug 1, 2012
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    for benchmark ocing i got it to 670/1000 on my orignial, 696/1000 on replacement (but i returned it). gonna try tonight and c how well my 2nd replacement can oc
     
    PaKii94, Aug 2, 2012
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    Ahh, I forgot you were on an Envy-15, the stock clock of a 7850M is 625.

    Btw you should prob change the "7950m" in your title.


    I've gotten my 7850m up from a stock of 625Mhz to 780Mhz so far, temps GPU-wise haven't peaked 75C, and the CPU hasn't peaked 84C.
     
    sabot00, Aug 3, 2012
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    ok i think i have officially finished it, my max oc has been 740/1175 with gpu topping at 69 and idk cpu (not gonna be much tho) i gotta find the result link but it was p2352, with gpu of 2063 or something like that not bad i guess... if i could OV it alittle more, we would have the desktop 7750 @800/1125 lol
     
    PaKii94, Aug 3, 2012
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  14. SpaceCaseSixtyTen

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    Nice, i'll test mine out later if i can go that high as well and if it is stable. I'll do it later today....
     
    SpaceCaseSixtyTen, Aug 6, 2012
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    haha mine isnt very stable besides 3dmark11. but im awaiting ur results lol
     
    PaKii94, Aug 6, 2012
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