The MSI Overclocking Thread! (Stricly For OC)

I checked the memory when I got the card. It is assembled with 1.1 ns chips of Qimonda. This means that the memory is meant to work @ 909.090909 MHz. After this value forward is the real overclock. The thing that bothers me is that I can't put heatsinks on the memory on the back of the card and may be I won't push it after 900 MHz. Or at least not for 24/7

 

Hmm thats quite risky isn't it? unless its nots vram, maybe its worth you whipping up a copper shim for heat (Not a hs, but some copper thin enough to take some of the pain away), but yeah its rated at 909, and the AW is set to 800, after that, the qimonda chips can get pushed very hard, its impressive!

 

Enough chit chat ! Flash to the modded BIOS and get busy !

 

Hahaha, Did you not see that he has open aired ram dead! how risky is that haha.

 

Dead is talking about flashing with modded by Svet BIO0S.
i'll do this but on the weekend maybe ... when I have more free time.

 

Haha yeah, good old svet, modding bios like a pro as always, mind you atleast the cards working, thats great .

 

There is a lot more that it can show

 

Haha yeah, lets hope the memory chips dont randomly die in the mean time.

 

Now ... guys did any of you know a way to voltmod this beast. It seems to me that 1.05V are a lot for this core. I know that voltages here are hardware wired and there is only one voltage setting for all Power options. This is very strange though. Desktop models have at least 4 and where this is needed the most - there is only one!
My laptop was working on battery for 2-2 and a half hours with GF 9600M GT card (of course I'm not putting that thing back ) and with this one I barely go up to 1 and a half.

 

Awesome, I've been looking for a way to relock overdrive, but clicking on it like an epilectic didn't seem to work.
Registry editing seems more reliable, and it doesn't break my mouse.

 

Haha it works too, i did it when i sent my machine in for repairs lol.

 

hello guys
i'm new here;
have anybody tried to oc msi gt640 with core7 720qm and gts250m ?

 

There were reports that it was possible with setfsb also, finding the post may be hard though :')

 

throttlestop NEEDS to be included right NOW. I just used throttlestop to overclock my ES Q9100 from 2.26ghz all the way up to 3.06 ghz!

EDIT:
Increased voltage to 1.4, now I get 3.3Ghz @ 12x!

 

anyway to overclock gx640?

 

Hmmm the 640,

Throttlestops gone far and SETFSB,

Will start looking into bringing the tread up to speed.

Cheers
Cata.

 

do not know about the cpu but u can overclock the graphic card from catalyst control

 

Certain its do-able with throttle stop.

Using Memset to push my timings back to original values (USELESS ADVENT)

Back at 5-5-5-15 instead of 5-6-6-18 LOL, they gave me ram they found in an alley, maybe now my 4850 will remain more stable!

Need some proper OC ram, thinking of blasting on the q9000.

Do i also bother with flash upgrading my 4850 (Its outdate also )!

 

hello there im from the philippines and didn't read forums before buying my laptop. i bought a msi cx420 i5 with the standard 2gb ram and ati radeon hd 5470 vid card. i saw a post that it's not a good gaming laptop or not at all so I want to overclock. can i follow the steps you posted for the other model to my own laptop in terms of overclocking or do i need to do a different step in overclocking? hope for a swift reply thank you

 

Sorry guys, haven't been here a while, work has taken my life over! Quite drastically.

Trex, i know you'l never see this but i'ma post it anyway haha,

These steps should work, the GPU anyway should be overclockable, the I5 will probably need other OC steps however which could be bios related, TS related, FSB i don't think will cut it.

Any of the old members still around? How are your machines doing?? Advent 6555 is still functional! i spuilt brake fluid on it :S keyboard died but replaced it yesterday!

Also purchased a new M17Xr3, i know i know not MSI, but i don't like the direction and flashness of the new models, i just loved the discreteness of the older ones! so i thought if i were to go flashy (Like alot of gaming laptops) i'd go for one i'd always loved! .

Any newer machine members, i would encourage you guys to post your results here and the tools/methods you have used to achive, this thread really did show the best of our machines at the time!

- Cata

 

GT628: a powerhungry Q9200 and Throttlestop. I achieved [email protected] and [email protected]. Gaming is okay, but stress test is always make a BSOD nearly 98*C

This is the limit of the chassis as well, because when I stopped playing at 3.7GHz the notebook made some crackling noise while it cools down. Like the cars hood after you stop the engine. Crazy.

 

Core 2 Duos and Core 2 Quads can run hot or they can run fast but they aren't very happy when you are trying to do both at the same time. A BSOD and some crackling is usually a good sign that you have found the limits of your CPU. Good work!

 

These are some fantastic results for the Q9200, before i had my ram explode on me, i managed to lock in a q9000 @ 2.7 ghz by some freak accident of playing with IDA function at the stock voltage, boy i would have loved some better ram at that point, had the ATI 4850 running marathons too but it didn't show much performance (Which im sure was due to outdated vbios)

The cracking noise made me laugh though haha, must mean that your making full use of the heat transfer system!, You should build yourself a decent custom notebook blower for that temperature perhaps?

 

As for cooling I use a Spire cooler. BSODs and crackling only happened when my bottom cover is on. If I use my laptop without the cover it stays in the low 80'[email protected]. I usually use it with an external monitor so the opened bottom is not a big problem.

The funniest is the WEI score which is 7.4 7.4 6.9 6.9 5.9 with the quad at 3.2GHz. But its 7.5 7.5 for the cpu and the ram on 3.7GHz. Man this is the league of SandyBridge cpus.

 

Well it shows that even the older architecture is not obselete to be honest, i remember a year or so ago when Mandrake was pushing the QX9300, had it running at 4GHz on each core in an M17, was incredible seing a laptop processor that high, now though you see it more and more, c2d and c2q architecture really went a long way!