Overclock help for x205

I've read a few threads here and at Laptopvideo2go, but can't seem to get any driver to let me overclock.

Currently, I have 158.45. I've tried ATItool, Rivatuner, and nTune, and all of them just reset back to factory as soon as I move the slider or set a new clock.

I've also tried the stock drivers from June and they won't let me overclock either.

I think it may have something to do with the fact that I've installed every other 163.xx driver out there. I've tried driver cleaner and that didn't seem to clean very much.

Aside from fresh installing windows... does anyone have a full proof method to getting 158.45 or stock drivers to install and allow overclock?

 

Its official... I'm retarded.

1. drink some Jack N Coke.
2. Open device manager
3. Uninstall display adapter
4. Run driver cleaner
5. Restart
6. Drink more Jack N Coke.
7. Install 158.45 with modded inf from device manager
8. ATItool works!

Result 5104 3dmark 06 (725/885)!
(775/938) settings took a poop everytime. I think its the Vmemory thats holdin me back.

 

Well, individual results may vary.
Did you try 750/900?

I actually started (and games run) at 800/1000 with stock drivers... I just see minor glitches... 3dmark06 crashed and I backed it down a few steps for stability.

As long as I run stock drivers, it overclocks like a champ...

Since you know 725/885 works, inch it up a bit and see what happens.

 

Did you keep it OC'ed all the time? how to?
Anyway to get it above 6000+ 3Dmarks06 stable?

 

6000+ at 1280x1024 is not realistic with a T7100 or T7300 and an 8700 as far as I can tell.

Keep in mind that 3dmark06 is a DX9 application and the 8x00 series are not optimized for DX9.

I might be able to squeeze 5400 or perhaps slightly higher with the T7100 with 163.xx drives and a BIOS 775/938 OC.

A T7300 would likely get around 5600 under the same conditions.

Perhaps the 8700 OC'd to 775/938 and a T7700 might approach 6000...

 

Well I went back and gave it a couple higher settings. If the drivers are Overclockable, ATI tool will hold them until a restart. You can also set the settings to load that profile at startup and exit ATItool like it was never there.

Personally, I think the 725/885 is the best safe OC. It yeilds no artifacts whatsoever and gets 700 more marks for free. I took it up to 737/913 after a fresh restart and got a little more, but in game, the artifacts started popping up. At that point I tuned for 0 artifacts in ATI tool and checked 3dmark with my eyes. Honestly, 725/885 is safe, fast, and plenty performance for me.

 

So what about the bios overclocking options? Is that possible on the X205's? Read the guide in the other area here, but came away confused... Do we or don't we have the right kind of video bios to be reflashed?

 

Nibitor wasn't reading the bios from our card. I think thats where most people got stuck. Running ATItool at startup gets the same job done anyway.

 

ATItool allows overclocking even with the newest drivers?

 

nope... latest support is 158.45. 163.xx does not support OC.

 

Nibitor reads it, (if run via a winXP live boot CD) but the BIOS looks wonky.

I haven't had the guts to change the fields and save the BIOS over the current one as they don't quite look right. (the numbers in the fields have 7 digits and thus are WAY too high when you pull the BIOS.

Pretty much Nibitor doesn't understand the 8700's BIOS as far as I can tell.
Thus, it porbably doesn't know WHERE to put the new core and memory (and shader) timings.

Also, pretty sure nvflash isn't quite happy with our BIOS either.

 

No need for it now, cause with 167.23 driver you can overclock shader and get like me 6161 in 3dmark06.... hehe (Toshiba x200-15k)

 

I've been trying to OC my x205-s9349 with no luck.

I've got the newest drivers installed (163.75) correctly I think.

First I uninstalled the device through device manager, then I ran Driver Cleaner. Now I've never used this program before but I think I used it correctly, I pulled "Nvidia display" to the right box of the program then hit "clean."

Then I restarted, installed the driver's with the modded .inf file and restarted again.

Whenever I try to OC, Rivatuner just resets the speeds each time I close it.

What am I doing wrong here, or is what I am doing impossible?

 

the 163.75's don't overclock, they do exactly what you describe... that series disabled overclocking... try the 169.04's and you'll be good to go

 

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=15825

There's a link in case you couldn't find em, good luck!

 

Quick response, thanks for the help!

 

OK, tried those drivers with no change in Rivatuner.

I thought this process was a relatively simple one but I can't quite seem to get it to work for me.

Is there some step I'm missing in all this?

Any help is appreciated....

 

I amusing these drivers on XP and rivatuner 2.06 and I am able to overclock my 8700MGT with no problems at all, right now I am running my at 700/900. You simply tell rivatuner uder drivers detected that you want enable overclocking and tell it to detect the current speed without rebooting, set the oveclock you want save the new speed as your startup settings, then go to the settings tab and make sure rivatuner is set to stertup with windows as well.

 

Jesse you seem to have the same computer except for processor speed so could you let me know exactly how you got it to work?

I understand how to use RivaTuner, setting the clock speed and all that, so that's not really the problem.

When I change the clock speed out of the default setting, save it and then hit "Apply," everything is fine. When I click "OK" and go back to the main RivaTuner screen, all clock speeds reset themselves.

Should I go back to 158.xx drivers and see if those work or would that just be a waste of time?

 

Sorry, figured it out.

I had to reset the factory defaults on the card through RivaTuner, then reboot and attempt to OC then.

So I got it working, now I just have to learn my limits.

Thanks for all your help guys.

 

hey, good deal... glad ya got it working!

 

Hey guys i just got my X 205 not a long ago and now i am using a driver 169.09 with Rivatuner
Without overclocking the program says that my default clock is
625/1250/700 but actually when i play games it jumps up to 625/1350/700 and i didn't touch it
is it normal ?
How high can I go with the Temperature ? now when i play Cod4 it goes up to 63C .

 

63C? Mine hit's 90C at times.... so you're golden if that's all you get.... mine idles around 63C.... as a note, I'm assuming you've got a single 8700GT as opposed to the SLI setup with 2 8600's I've got, so that's why you get such cooler temps, which is a good thing

 

can someone tell me the best way to monitor the graphics after oc'ing? should i just play a game and watch for artifacts or should i run 3dmark06?

also - if im using rivatuner, how do i disable the OC when i dont want to use it? does it automatically go back to default clocks?