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    Vbios Flash vs Soft Overclock

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by daverage, Jul 7, 2008.

  1. daverage

    daverage Notebook Guru

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    Ok here's one for you.
    Which is better and why, soft overclock of the GPU with the likes of nTune or a proper flashed bios job?
     
    daverage, Jul 7, 2008
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    emike09 Overclocking Champion

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    Personal preference. I prefer a hard OC because its running at the hardware level instead of a software level, I don't have to configure the clocks all the time, you can go to higher clocks on hardware, and you have control over voltages. But nTune is easy and convenient for experimenting with clocks.
     
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  3. MKang25

    MKang25 NBR Prisoner

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    Soft overclock does not work as well either. Many people had trouble getting soft oc's to work.
     
    MKang25, Jul 7, 2008
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  4. goke313

    goke313 Notebook Evangelist

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    how do you "Vbios flash" or "hard OC"?
     
    goke313, Jul 7, 2008
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    vbios flash = hardware OC
     
    Nirvana, Jul 7, 2008
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  6. MKang25

    MKang25 NBR Prisoner

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    You vbios flash by formatting your thumb drive to be a bootable usb stick. Put the vbios with the clocks you want , on it along with NVflash, and then use dos commands, go look up nvflash in search there was a thread on how to do it.
     
    MKang25, Jul 7, 2008
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  7. emike09

    emike09 Overclocking Champion

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    He already did that quite some time ago. He's just wanting to know what people thing about a soft OC versus a hard OC.
     
    emike09, Jul 7, 2008
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    sterben Notebook Consultant

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    Now that the new ntune works with 175.75 (which I've revered to, at least for the time being), I like to soft OC. That way I can just OC when I need to (ie while gaming) and keep it stock the rest of the time.

    It probably won't matter much in the long run, since the 600/900/1500 is pretty safe regardless as I understand it, but I prefer to stay stock unless I need extra.

    That's just me though.
     
    sterben, Jul 7, 2008
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  9. MKang25

    MKang25 NBR Prisoner

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    My explanation was for Goke :D
     
    MKang25, Jul 7, 2008
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  10. dazzyd

    dazzyd Notebook Evangelist

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    so with this ntune 2.06. i have hardware overclocked my card now to the 600/975/1500.. can i go further by software overclocking.??
     
    dazzyd, Jul 7, 2008
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  11. goke313

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    thanks for da explanation
     
    goke313, Jul 7, 2008
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  12. daverage

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    I actually found I count not get near 600 /1500 /950 with nTune i got o 525 / 1300 / 840 before it all went a bit haywire ;p
     
    daverage, Jul 8, 2008
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    That might be due to voltages or maybe heat. I haven't messed around with OC'ing my 9262 since it runs everything I play just fine stock, but as more games start coming out that require more juice I'll end up having to OC to keep up unless I can upgrade from the 8800M in the future. It's good to see these posts so I have the info needed to test out OC'ing if/when I need it. ;)
     
    Stroxuss, Jul 9, 2008
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