670M Overclocking

So I have my 670M running at 650/1575 and it maxes out at 74degrees when playing Skyrim. I don't think that is really to bad of a temperature and I am likely going to push the card even further. However, before I do I just wanted to see what other 670M users have their cards clocked at and what their max temps are.

 

Mine (570M) ran fine at 840mhz pushing the temps up into the 80s (with the voltage mod).

 

what program did you use to overclock your 670m?

 

Svets vbios modder and nvidia inspector.

 

wow typical doesnt support 485m.

 

MSI never used it thats why, he works for them.

MVKtech.net one works i think.

 

Just to update I am now running at 700/1625 and I hit a max temp of 78 degrees on skyrim and that is after a couple of hours of playing. I am probably going to repaste at some point but for now I am fine with that temp. I might push the card a little further in the future but for right now I am content. Anyone else care to share their overclock values and temps?

 

Been running my GT60 at 640 and 650 MHz, temperatures of 65 at 640 66-67 at 650. Ambient temperatures at 21 degrees. Those are running battlefield 3 at low settings 1680x1050 (external display) getting 75 avg fps with 98-100% GPU load.

 

I'm at 770/1775, max temp of 74, whichI'm happy with. I've done a repaste and foil mod, for the record.

 

Sager NP9130 / Clevo P151EM1
- 15.6" Full HD Matte-Type Screen with 95% NTSC Color Gamut (1920x1080)
- 3rd Generation Intel Ivy Bridge i7 Quad-Core 3610QM
- NVidia GeForce GTX 670M (1.5GB GDDR5 RAM)
- 16GB DDR3 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory
- 240GB Intel 520 Series Solid State Drive
- Optical Drive Bay: 750GB 7200RPM Hard Drive
- Bigfoot Networks Killer™ Wireless-N 1202 + Bluetooth 4.0 (Dual Band)
- Extra Cooling Copper Heatsinks
- IC Diamond Thermal Compound

My current best 3DMark Vantage score
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P151EMx score: P15647 3DMarks


My current best 3DMark 11 score


All that was used for GPU overclocking and CPU max turbo boost was MSI Afterburner v2.2.4 and ThrottleStop v5

I spent a lot of time getting these max scores while making sure to avoid ever getting GPU Artifacts and or errors while doing benchmark and stress tests. And most importantly to not hit temperatures above 80-85°c.

I recommend using OCCT v4.3.1 for error and artifact testing.

Also the best way to get best results and benchmark scores is by using the Fn+1 feature to use max fan speeds.

 

Don't turn on physX, you had to of deliberately done that and it's cheating.

The ONLY thing it does is artificially inflate your score, obfuscate possible performance issues with the CPU and gives no valid information.

So don't. Seriously.

My highest:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2720QM Processor,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16F2 score: P4149 3DMarks

and

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2720QM Processor,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16F2 score: P16592 3DMarks

 

Oh hay well thanks, this is my first time using 3DMark and did not know the issues with physX. But yea after looking into it I see that physX needs to be set to CPU in the Nvidia Control Panel or disable PPU in the 3DMark Vantage settings to get an accurate score. My physX was on the default setting Auto-select.
My 3DMark 11 score is fine since physX is not an issue within it but I had to redo my Vantage one:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P151EMx score: P15647 3DMarks


With your flashed bios allowing you full XTU access as well as the voltage mod, is GPU Artifacts ever an issue for you? With this 670m anytime I go over Core 750MHz I tend to get benchmark errors or added artifacts while in games. I rather just use less overclocking and continue to have low temps but would be nice to know that having a unlocked bios and using a voltage mod can allow me to go beyond 750MHz without artifacts.

 

It would help yes, stable frequency is directly related to voltage.

 

Wait a sec...

There's a flashed bios for full XTU access??? If so, where can I get it?

I fiddled around a bit with the thermal pads the other day, reapplied thermal paste. I got 830MHz core with 1600MHz memory stable, no voltage mod, got over 90FPS in BF3 at 1680x1050, core temps at 65c. Ambient temps were around 16-17c. I am running an unusual cooling setup with a 120mm fan pulling air away from the exhausts through Lego ducts and the laptop raised 80mm over the desk. I had my fan blowing in cold air from outside underneath the laptop, so the intake temps were probably closer to 12-14c.
I did a 3dmark06 test with the CPU at 2.66GHz and the core at 820MHz with these results which were surprisingly lower in SM2.0 than my previous results at 730/1600MHz and the CPU at 2.94GHz.