The GTX 280M Overclocking and Benchmarking Results Thread

Nvidia Tools 6.05 but be careful and do in small increments.

 

A few benchmarks from last night.

 

Very nice scores.

Try to also get a vantage score without PhysX.

 

he knows all about running without physx....lol

 

for vantage to finish with physx on overclocked speaks.....

 

pretty much so don....pretty much so...

 

I'm with you there...I often said the hwbot guys have it easy without physx!

Here's my non-physx run from last night.

 

anything special that you did to achieve this overclock? since 700/1700 for core/shader is higher than anything else i saw here so far.
temps from furmark would be interesting

 

Nice score.

 

Yea, Dondadah offered me his vbios...I said yes, then I took it from there. His bios was not overclocked, but came from another 280m. I think those clocks have been done before. Dondadah said he reached those levels.

I have yet to add cooling to the mix....then it should get interesting!

 

Ran a few more tonight.

Don't let the score throw you...it is physx-off.




And 3dmark06

 

Here's a little better one with mem @ 1225.. !

 

woah woah woah. stop. just stop. stop. stop....
you can't come in here just killing everyone's hopes and dreams of trying to be a benchmarker. you just killed every's scores. you are just a benchmarking havoc.....

lol


now i have to do some runs.

 

lol

that's how we do it.

 

i haven't gone that high but i have reached some good numbers.
http://i49.tinypic.com/21l7q7r.jpg
of course this is with sli....

 

i think q56 has the highest memory over clock todate. by quite a large margin at that...

 

His scores are insane ). I had to rep him. Excellent job over there.

 

here is mines stock cpu.
http://i42.tinypic.com/2hdnxbl.jpg

i cant past 1088 on the memory unless i flash the bios.

 

That 1225 MHz on the memory is crazy. Samsung makes the memories to work at 1000 MHz and no more. He has a very very lucky card to manage those scores. Not to mention that he can also get it permanently damage his card at those clocks. All in all, the clocks he manages to reach are just... well he shouldn't be able to reach them but he does... which is what makes it all so awesome.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5992182&postcount=257

 

Thanks guys....next step....a/c chilling. Gotta figure out how I'm going to physically do that. Probably won't do it right away though...

don, flash away!

 

I've never permanently damaged any vid card, and I push 'em all pretty hard.

Well, I shouldn't say that...I think I burned out my 7900gtx go on my dell xps lappy after having it permanently overclocked for almost 4 years, lol. That was when you had to do a hard flash and cards didn't downclock on 2d apps.

I did have to bump the voltage to 1.03 (extra) to get those 280m clocks though.

 

Dismantle the top half of your PSU and put a fan near it. You can also put a few heatsinks you have lying around ontop of the large aluminium plate. Just be careful to not touch it with ungrounded hands when it is operating. High voltage will put you on the floor, but high current will kill you.

 

What will cooling the power brick do for me, Soviet? I don't understand. I was thinking of channeling cold a/c air to the bottom of the notebook so the fan intakes cool down the gpu.

 

To be honest with you, I don't know how I managed to interpret your post as referring to the power adapter. Maybe I read too fast and the word "A/C" threw me off. Mornings without hot chocolate screws up my thinking sometimes. Disregard my last post.

 

lol, np...I need my morning "drink" too!

 

I didn't think it would be fair if i didn't give 3dm06 a chance at mem of 1230




Then i bumped mem up to 1235 for a vantage run.

 

he is right...cooling the power supply down helps it keep a stable current and helps the psu last longer.
if you run the ac...just put it under with the laptop and it will do both.

 

I ran one with physx just to see if it held with the high memory. OK, I'm done now....I won't bore you guys anymore.....back to desktop benching .

Hey why'd Soviet Sunrise get "Banned"?

 

no one knows. but no one gets bored with benchmarking. lol.

nice runs. you should buy my m17x so you can benchmark crossfire 4870's.

 

Lol, I didn't even want to buy this one, but my 'ol Dell XPS M1710 crapped out on me. But I am a lot happier with the productivity of the Sager. Things that would take the Dell 5 minutes, the Sager does in 20 seconds...Thank you i7!

....I am a sucker for multiple vcards though......if only they made a quad-fire

 

umm, CrossFireX?

 

he means just that riko...
4 gpus in a laptop...lol
just like his desktop.

 

yep, that's what I meant...someday (or should I say some"year")

 

Time to ease back on the memory, Q56_Monster. The desktop 9800 GTX+'s memory is rated for 1200MHz and you have cranked yours above that.

 

It's interesting to see these scores compared to desktop cards.

Overall Score



GPU Score



3dMark06



The CPU used was a QX9770 @ 3.852Ghz.

 

Yes, but those card reviews never really push the cards hard. I have a desktop 9800GTX (not even a "+"), and I go over 9,200 in performance vantage, but that is with an i7 @ 4.5Ghz.

The QX9770 yorkie @ 3.8Ghz I would say is roughly equivalent to an i7 desktop proc at 3.4ghz.

I don't know, if I somehow OC'd a desktop proc to 3.8Ghz and ran it with a 280M, I seem to think it would still not reach the synthetic bench performance of the desktop 9800......we may never know!!!

 

Hey Man, you're back!! Good deal.

I only ran that mem for those bench runs...the 280m now sits running stock clocks and idle 99.99999% of the time, lol.

BTW, I bench my desktop 9800 gtx @ 1285 mem.

 

For desktop cards, it's okay to run a bit over the rated max as the cooling is much stronger. Also, 1285MHz is only ~7% over the rated max so that's not exactly a lot. On the GTX 280M though, over 1200MHz is a big jump.

 

considering.....no one else can do it.
lol

 

Hi everybody.. sorry to resurrect this thread again, but I'm trying to overclock my 280m gtx on my clevo.. I just downloaded nvtools 6.05 and nibitor 5.5, but guess what? I'm running windows 7 64bit and it looks like nibitor doesn't work on this version? how did you guys managed to mod the bios on win7? is it even possible? any other solutions? thanks..

 

Welcome to the forum

Remember, you don`t need nibitor to OC your GTX 280M, nvtools will work just fine, but your max OC will be limited because you can`t increase voltage without flashing the card.

 

if you want to bios mod, you need to use GPU-Z to extract the bios, then modify it with nibitor

 

thank you for the reply.. i'll try with gpu-z.. i already oced without raising the voltage, but i'm stuck at 680/950/1500 with temps in the 50s while playing bf bad company 2..

 

..so far i got 700/950/1650 stable, with temps around 56 degrees while playing bad company 2.. i'm still adjusting while trying to keep the temp below 60.. using gpu-z and nibitor i was able to up the voltage only to 1.03.. how did you guys managed 1.05v using nibitor? that option isn't present in my configuration, i can only go to 1.03v...

 

hi guys,i'm also new around here, i know a few stuff about hardware but i have a question! i have SLi GTX 280M can somebody please tell me some steps to OC? and having two should i flash both cards bios? thanks in advance!
ps: this forum helped a lot! thanks to you all

 

I'm settling for 700/960/1700.. if i push it higher i get random flashes of black screens.. no crashes, but it's still annoying when you're trying to shoot someone and the screen goes black.. thank you all for the help..

 

can anyone post a link to nvtools please,thank you!

 

Here, though I`m not sure it`s the latest version.

 

6.03 is for up to and including the 18x.xx series drivers, 6.05 is for newer drivers