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    >>> SetFSB Auto Tool v1.0 <<< - OC your CPU automatically -

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Audigy, May 13, 2008.

  1. MKang25

    MKang25 NBR Prisoner

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    Open up cpu z and try different ocs and see if cpu z reads them if it does then its right.
     
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    alexlm Notebook Consultant

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    I dond understand how to oc the cpu! there are two bars? help plz
     
  3. Gwiggles

    Gwiggles Notebook Guru

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    Top bar, increase it little by little. Each time you increase click "Set FSB"
     
  4. alexlm

    alexlm Notebook Consultant

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    when I do that automatically moves again??
     
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    davidreavis Newbie

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    is there an autotool available for the t5550? i hope so if there is please let me know
     
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    Nirvana Notebook Prophet

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    @davidreavis, this auto tool won't work on your computer.
     
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    zx81 Notebook Consultant

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    I tried all the PLL choices against my M6300 and didnt get a hit, bummer

    I'll have a look at the motherboard and see if I can ID the PLL chip, something to go on at least
     
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    alexlm Notebook Consultant

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    I have the same core 2 duo, wy it wont work???
     
  9. theriko

    theriko Ronin

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    The tool depends on the motherboard, so unless you can get setfsb working on your system, the auto tool won't work. You can try downloading setfsb and trying out all the different pll's in it to see if you get a hit.
     
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    mirage_bg Notebook Deity

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    Is there anyone who has had a success with cpu overclock of XPS M1530? I've tried all generators without success... :((
     
  11. leonyeo1001

    leonyeo1001 Notebook Evangelist

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    are you creating one for E8400 desktop processor in a D901C? please tell me you are :D
     
  12. Garandhero

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    Will the new procs. that just came out get support? jw :)
     
  13. Arinox

    Arinox Newbie

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    Hello, after hours of searching it appears i have a Quanta motherboard , my laptop is a HP dv9870, it's not supported right?tried the list down and didn't had any fsb match mine
     
  14. twEEker

    twEEker Notebook Enthusiast

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    Is it even possible?

    Would like to know that too...
     
  15. D3X

    D3X the robo know it all

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    awesome job audigy on finding the right PLL and creating the auto tool. Although you may need to create the T8100 processor as well. I found that the T7300 versions work fine on my T8100 but are 100mhz faster than the T7300 settings.

    my current T8100 on my F8SN is stable at 2.63ghz. I'm totally satisfied with the overclock, my full load temperature never goes beyond 60degrees celsius.
     
  16. mechguy

    mechguy Notebook Geek

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    wow, this program is freakin awesome. I just took my t9300 to 3.1ghz and so far it seems rock solid at this speed. I'm going to continue to stress test using orthos to ensure it is fully stable. unfortunately, 3.2ghz was not stable but 3.1ghz for a 14inch laptop is nothing to scoff at.

    my F8Sn-C1 just turned into a mini DTR monster. OC'd the 9500m GS full 100mhz for both core and memory and it is fully stable with no artifacting.

    CPU temp currently at 65c at 3.1ghz running orthos(small fft's). room temp at 27c. notebook cooler is also being used to assist in cooling. idle temp is 42c.

    just scored 5.4 using windows experience index.
    Processor: 5.6
    Memory: 5.9
    Graphics: 5.7
    Gaming: 5.4
    Primay HDD: 5.4

    not bad at all for a 14 incher!

    Oh yeah, I'm digging the auto launcher as well. Good stuff man.
     
  17. sujinge9

    sujinge9 Notebook Evangelist

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    what kind of memory do you have mechguy? the ddr3 in the 570tus are only getting 5.1s or so which is weird.
     
  18. D3X

    D3X the robo know it all

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    I'm getting 5.2 without video overclocking.
    I wouldn't worry about WEI scores, just run 3Dmark and you'll likely beat mechguys benches.
     
  19. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    Audigy has not been heard off for quite some time.
    So whatever shape the program took so far... is what you`ll see :)
     
  20. mechguy

    mechguy Notebook Geek

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    The notebook came with DDR2 667 memory. But due to the OC, it's running at 830mhz. Your notebook should smoke mine... weird. Do you have any anti-virus or some kind of security software running in the background? Might want to disable that before running windows experience index. I had tons of background apps running (64 processes) except an anti-virus software. It may help... or not.

    Notebook is fully stable right now at 3.1ghz. Unfortunately, I had to bring down my gpu OC from 594 to 540. I was getting artifacting, which wasn't happening before I OC'd the cpu. So my gpu OC is now at 540/1180/540 (stock 513/1026/400). It is fully stable at this OC, I've tested for last 2 hours.

    Scored 4834 in 3dmark06 @ 1280x1024 resolution (got external monitor hooked up to the notebook). Not bad I think.
     
  21. D3X

    D3X the robo know it all

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    Seriously who cares about WEI scores? Score based on your lowest subscore... and the fact that it fluctuates even on idle shows that the bench is a bunch of bull... it's useless.

    Just stick with the 3Dmark06 comparisons.

    Are you on a F8 as well? My GPU is 475 stock, how is it that yours is 515 stock? I'm getting an X9000 processor for dirt cheap, so I'll revisit this page with my SetFSB results.
     
  22. mechguy

    mechguy Notebook Geek

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    WEI still is a type of benchmark. Never fluctuated on me unless I did some tweaking to the system. Just because you feel that it is useless, doesn't mean it is.

    On the other hand, 3dmark06 is not always 100% reliable either. The scores can vary by a few hundred points at times. I've personally have seen this happen between restarts of the system I ran the app on.

    My notebook is a F8Sn-C1. I learned while back ago to never trust the slider numbers on any GPU OC program, especially when dealing with the nvidia cards since 8000 series. For instance, if you run rivatuner, it will show that my gpu at stock is running at 475/950/400.

    [​IMG]

    But, if you run the program's hardware monitor, it paints a different picture.

    [​IMG]

    Now, which number do you go by? Now it could be that the hardware monitor is incorrectly reporting the clocked values. But no one seems to be certain of this.

    What I did find is that there are clocked values that will not change unless you go above a specific values on the sliders. For example, when I set rivatuner to 494/988/540 it is reported on the hardware monitor as 540/1080/540. If I start to OC the core a little more, there are no changes to the numbers reported on the hardware monitor until I set the slider to 507/1014 (core/shader). Only then do I get a reading of 553/1107 on the hardware monitor. So any changes between 494 to 507 (core) is not reported nor does it appear to affect the actual performance of the card.

    One simple test I've done recently further cemented this finding. My card runs perfectly stable at 494/988/540 (slider value). When I raise the core and shader to any value higher than 494/988 but lower than 507/1014, there are no apparent performance increase nor does the value on the hardware monitor change (stays same at 540/1080). However, once the slider is moved to 507/1014, the hardware monitor moves up to 553/1107 then voila, I get artifacts.

    More testing needs to be done to be sure of this though but from what I've seen (owned 3 different 8800 series desktop cards plus this 9500m), the values on the hardware monitor seems to be more accurate.

    Anyway, didn't mean to hijack the thread, lol.

    SetFSB is a great program! :p
     
  23. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The fact that WEI makes a useful longitudinal proxy for you is very nice, but totally irrelevant to its usefulness as a cross-system benchmarking tool, which was the issue at hand.

    Think of it this way - I could quite easily draw a new face for the speedometer in my car such that it had 650 divisions, each called a holy-moses, so that my top speed was 650 holey-moses.

    Now, if my custom speedo were to go from 300 holey-moses to 150 holey-moses, I would always know reliably that I had cut my speed in half.

    However, if I walked into the local hot-rod shop and said, "Look, guys, I can only get my car up to 467 holey-moses, is that as fast as I can go, or is there anyway to go faster?" do you really think I'm going to get anything useful out of the guys behind the counter? If pulled up to an idling GTO at a stoplight, looked over at the driver, and said, "this thing can hit 500 holey-moses in 60 seconds, can you beat that?" do you think the GTO driver is going to have any frame of reference for what just came out of my mouth?

    WEI may be rocksolid on your system, but it is unreliable across systems in just the same manner - it is effectively a custom speedo scale.
     
  24. mechguy

    mechguy Notebook Geek

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    I see what you're saying. When it is put in this "way", it makes more sense than someone just outright saying that it is useless.

    But why did you quote my whole post? Only the first paragraph was related to WEI. The rest was completely something else. Holey moses!
     
  25. DRTH_STi

    DRTH_STi can't.stop.buying.laptops

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    Any modification for the M860TU - with T9600? ;)

    -maybe soon?
     
  26. Gotei 13

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    Any clock mods for the T9400?
     
  27. D3X

    D3X the robo know it all

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    Well it's not that simple either! LOL

    It is useless; and here's the biggest reason with the "holy moses" analogy. If infact the WEI was only measuring a line in the gauge then there would be some substantial comparison between the next machine that would score 560 Hole moses. But the thing with the WEI is that it scores multiple subscores for each of the sub components of the computer, just imagine that "HOLY MOSES" was rated for each part of a car: Engine: 450 , Suspension: 378, Brakes: 302, Interior: 210, Styling:412 of our make believe GTO . Your overall Holy moses score is 210 based on your lowest score! Who rates a car like that? How can you tell how fast that car is? So for example a GTO would be 210 Holy moses because it has a crappy interior and a Honda Civic is 300 holy moses because allround it did ok, so a Civic is better than the GTO? To the average joe, that might be what they would conclude with the WEI system.

    The other thing I'm against the WEI is how long it actually takes to benchmark scores. It literally takes like 1-2 minutes tops, now I don't know of any benchmark that can thoroughly bench a system that fast. Sisoft sandra takes about 3-5 minutes per CPU test and 3Dmark takes a good 20 minutes for all the tests. Just imagine running a car on a dyno for a minute rather than the whole thing and see how accurate those results are...

    That's exactly why the WEI system fails, and it's useless as a rate of measure and it doesn't show how fast a computer is. I don't know how you can completely ignore that.
     
  28. D3X

    D3X the robo know it all

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    No. Not until SetFSB supports the PM45 chipset.
     
  29. plasma.

    plasma. herpyderpy

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    sweet, nice app!
     
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    Hi, does anyone knows if the support for the p45m is on it's way?

    i have the 9600m gs working at 9700m gt clocks except fot the mem... that is ddr2 so dont go over 466 on mine =/ but i'm happy with my m50m-a1 doing over 5200 3dmark 2006.

    But some cpu ocing would help me get to 5500, since never got the cpu over 52c, and was stressing the oced gpu and the cpu.

    unn wanna support for my cpu on SetFSB
     
  31. tringham

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    Dear Audigy
    I Have Acer Aspire 5920G With T7300
    Why My Notebook Cannot Overclocked With Your Software,I Doesnt Happen.My Cpu Keep Running In 2,0GHZ. :(
     
  32. Macpod

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    does anyone know the clock generator for a vostro 1500 t7250?
     
  33. checkmait

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    Hold on... can you overclock a CPU on the np9262 with Set FSB???
     
  34. D3X

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    maybe, if you can find a compatible SetFSB that can control the chipset clock PLL. http://www13.plala.or.jp/setfsb/
     
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    hi! someone knows if they managed to find the pll ong the gateway fx??
     
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    The links don't seem to be working!!? :confused: (at least not for me! :( )

    Pls can someone Re-up the T9300 Files as well as the OC off tool on any file hosting site?!(rapidshare etc.) :)

    Thanks! any help will be appreciated! :)
     
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    How safe is this? I'm gonna overclock my t9300, and what's the stable one for you guys?
    And which one should I do for my dell xps m1730? the only info is for the gateway something which is the clock gen. Which one should i choose for dell xps m1730?
     
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    Hi Audigy,
    whats about an m860tu with a t9400? is it possible to overclock the cpu?

    greetz
     
  41. Wintersdark

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    Two methods. One, open up your case and look - you're looking for the number printed on the clock generator which should be near your cpu but not on it. Or, two, just pick each in turn, hit "Get FSB" and see if it works. If it works and returns your FSB speeds etc, you've got the right one. Or, search for others with a similar system and see what they used.

    As to safety, it's fine. As with any overclocking, run a stress testing program like Orthos and a temperature monitor of course to be safe.

    My M570RU-U's t9300 will run stable at 2.9, some have hit 3.0. Personally, I run 24/7 at 2.8. While I'm stable at 2.9, I wanted some "wriggle room", and 2.8 is a pretty decent speed.

    The best part of this is that in overclocking the FSB it's also overclocking the PCI bus, resulting in better responsiveness over your whole system, including the graphics card (so don't try to overclock the GPU as well.)
     
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    I feel we’re working with the same system LOL!

    Funny thing is, you can actually use the system running at 3.1 just don’t try to game or use 3dmark06. I’m thinking with a little added voltage, you can run the T9300 @ 3.1GHz without any problems. Like you, 2.9 seem to be the sweet spot for this CPU at its current voltage. I was able to game for a few hours without any problems with the CPU being overclocked to 2.95, but anything over that is a no go. So I’m sure with some added voltage, the CPU has 3.2 in it. Considering that the CPU temperature barely reaches mid 50’s during high resolution gaming overclocked, heat is not a factor.
     
  43. Wintersdark

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    Well, being unable to use processor intensive apps kind of defeats the purpose of an overclock ;) My system downclocks when not under load (I undervolt with RMClock) so the overclock is pretty much entirely wasted in that case.

    My goal is to have maximum performance on demand, and minimal power consumption otherwise. The overclock coupled with undervolting and rmclock power management is working extremely well for this, both for high end gaming and for unplugged web browsing/email/etc.

    Added CPU voltage may help, but may not. The cause of your instability may be elsewhere because this is an FSB overclock. It's overclocking everything, not just your CPU. The northbridge heat is a major issue here. I'm not sure how things are for the xps, but for my clevo improving the heatsink mounting and replacing the thermal paste with AS5 made a significant difference.
     
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    Of course overclocking the unit to 3.1 and not having it use intensive applications would be a waste, the point was made that it does run at 3.1 with no voltage change. Seeing that’s a 600MHz overclock with no voltage change, leads me to believe the processor is more than capable of running at that speed with a higher voltage. I was running the 3.1 at the same FSB I run at 2.95 stable, so I know everything else will handle the 3.1GHz. With everything, YMMV.

    42 idle, with CPU overclocked. 44 idle, with HDD overclocked. 51 idle, with GPU overclocked gives me no reason to under volt seeing heat is not a factor. Even playing Crysis for a few hours at 2.95 only raised the CPU to 55c, HDD 48c and the GPU took the full beating coming out at 67c. Seeing that the FSB was raised and the temps for all the parts of the system stayed well below their thresh hold, gives me hope that 3.1GHz stable is not a problem. Not like I will do that now, but later it’s something to look forward to. Especially seeing what can be achieved with the processor running at 2.9GHz. 3DMARK06 doesn’t tell the full story; gaming is more impressive than that score could indicate. ;)
     
  45. Flotho

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    Whats with an M860TU? Is there any possibility to overclock?
     
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    That question needs to be directed to the right people, audigy being one of them. Even if it were possible, wouldn’t you be concerned about the heat it will cause that unit?
     
  47. gavinh

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    Nope! Bring it on.
     
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    I tried all of the PLLs. None of them work on my PM965 chipset motherboard.
     
  49. kobe_24

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    Are you sure you've tried them all?
     
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    Yeah, i tried them all. Is it possible to add the pm965 chipset to the plls?
     
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