Overclocking HGL30 7600?

I was reading how Donald was overclocking the 7600 in the HEL80. I am ordering the HGL30 on monday and I was wondering if the same should be done on the HGL30. Given there is a smaller space, there is going to be more heat but I should be able to overclock the video card if I am going to be running intensive games, correct? I will most certainly go back to default clocks once I am done and back on battery. Thanks.

-iSkylla

 

Overclocking voids the warranty,You surely aren't going to void the warranty just for a bit of extra performance?

 

It voids the entire 3 year warrenty from powernotebooks?

 

Donald has stated that overclocking will not void the warranty unless it frys your video card (so don't go overboard!). I can overclock my 7600 in my HGL30 to the same as those with HEL80s without too many problems.

 

Okay, well, the only way you really can fry it is either by a static discharge or increasing the voltage through the card (which isn't going to happen in my case). Thanks Quix.

 

Is there any data that correlates the overclocked states with the extra drain on the battery?

 

You will have less battery while overclocked. That's why it is best to have profiles. On my other laptop I had 3 profiles. Defualt, Overclocked and Underclocked. I got more battery life while underclocked. It is a MBP 15".

 

442/369 gets me extra 400 3dmark05 points and 10 fps on cs source. thats just ocing the 3d memory. 2d is unaffected, so battery is not drained more unless you play games while off of the ac. some have taken it to 480/369 but 442 is good enough for me.

 

Yay. First post ever.

I ordered a HGL30 from powernotebooks (who by the way, have been awesome so far. I have a great feeling about them.) I absolutely cannot wait for it to arrive--this would be first laptop ever. Oh, I like babbling so I'll highlight the relevant questions for those who'd like to bypass the rest lol..

Specs: 2ghz dual core, 2gigs mem, 7600 nvidia.. (It also has that arctic silver stuff, which I'm going to guess is relevant since it helps reduce heat.)

I'll mostly be using it for school & programming & whatnot. However, I have had my heart set on playing Oblivion for sometime now. I was hoping maybe someone could give me a link on making these overclock/underclock 'profiles' since half the time I use the laptop I'll be in class lectures & not wanting the battery to drain.

Thought this thread would be a good place to ask this since it's title is 'overclocking the hgl30'. What steps do I need to take to make the playing experiance for Oblivion as good as possible? Are stock settings good enough or will I have to alter things in the bios? (I'm guessing that is what over-clocking is?) I definately don't want to do anything remotely harmful to my new laptop.. (or void the warranty).

It's probably a simple question but this is one area of computing I have not ventured into (yet). Any info is appreciated.

Last but not least, is this a notebook that this forum needs a review for? I would absolutely love to conduct one if anyone would be so kind as to point me in the right direction on how to actually do all those benchmark 'thingies'. And I would take such pretty pictures

 

I would suggest getting rivatuner to use for ocing, it is a great utility and allows you to setup profiles, you can pick it up at www.guru3d.com and with obilivion you just won't be able to play the game with all max setting, it will play and you will have to find the spot between playability and eyecandy. Good luck and welcome to the forums.

 

This is not an ASUS Ensemble, so the rules that ASUS applies to voiding their warranty do not apply here.

 

krystina:

i have not personally tried it myself, but people have reported seeing fps gains when they set the "Max frames to render ahead" from default 3 to 0.

 

anyone know a source that lists adjustments already deemed to be safe for the hgl30? i dont feel comfortable experimenting. I checked out the riva app, is it an alternative to altering things in the bios startup? or must i do both?

i have to admit, figuring this out is a little confusing, i can't begin to express the plethora of useless information that i end up reading from typing 'overclock' into google lol.

so overclocking the gpu and the cpu are two different things?

 

yes, overclocking you CPU for game with the core duo isn't needed, you much more restricted by the GPU, which is just a CPU used for video rendering. Ocing the GPU is pretty easy, just use a utlity to bring up the core or GPU clock up by 5% at a time to be safe, the memory if it is anything like the HEL80 isn't going to OC much, maybe 10mhz if your lucky. If you have any questions post them and will do our best to answer them, don't search google for this liable to end up with a fried laptop

 

Anyone who has their HGL-30, does the temperature spike too much if you run the graphics chip at the "standard" 400MHz, rather than the 350 that it ships at from Compal? I'd like to get at least "normal" performance out of my machine, even if actual overclocking isn't happening... heh.

Edit: Fixed the value according to what paladin44 said below

 

Just read the Sticky at the top of this forum about overclocking the HEL80. You do it the same way, using the same numbers, for the HGL30. It is as easy as unlocking the Contol Panel in the registry (as described in the thread), and then type in the speeds you want...using our numbers as your guide.

 

well i can't wait until it gets here to try it out

despite the fact that they have the same graphics card, i just figured the scenarios would be different since the gpu in the hgl30 will be in a (somewhat) smaller enclosure than the hel80.

so upping it isnt even considered overclocking since its already 'underclocked' 25%?

does anyone happen to have any experiances getting oblivion to run decently with it 'normally' clocked? (upping it 25% to "normal") ? or have you found that you need to go a bit beyond that?

 

I actually haven't even tried to run Oblivion on my HEL80 yet, did run fear and have to say at stock speeds it is ok on med settings, maybe when I find my Oblivion DVD I will get it loaded up and try it out.

 

Just curious Pitabred, where did you get the 375 from? I thought it shipped at 350/350 from Compal, like the HEL80. Anyways, I've never seen my HGL30 go above 52 degrees and the gpa above ~60-70, even overclocked...but that may be because I don't have any really demanding games to push it (yet... )

 

The Compal specifications sheet shows the HGL30 at 375/400 (and that is what we used on our Specifications pages) but in reality it is shipping at 350/350

 

I don't know that you would want to overclock to the settings of the HEL80. When I tried i had some serious artifacting on the screen and had to revert to 453/365. I havent experimented with it higher yet but that seemed to be stable when playing FEAR maxed out.