overclocking X205-S9349

I got crysis and I want to overclock the laptop so I can get better performance out of the game. Everywhere I look online though only shows overclocking for desktops. has anyone tried to overclock their toshiba?

 

Riva Tuner; Google it.

You don't need to OC your processor, just your video card. OC'ing most laptop processors is difficult and in my experience not worth it, especially sith all of the power these core 2's run with.

The video card is your bottleneck.

Hope that helps!

PS how do you like your s9349? I get mine today!

 

thanks for the help

Its a good computer. I really like the speakers. It just pisses me off cause my HD drive just went out on me and the computer is acting like I dont have a dang cd drive at all.

Also it came with too much crap installed on it. It took me forever to get all of that crap uninstalled.

 

That is not good about the HD drive, hope that is resolved.

About the crap installed...I am contemplating just throwing on a fresh copy of XP Pro...Ive been hearing it increases your 3Dmark06 score by over a thousand, that has to show for something.

Or maybe i will wait for the Vista SP1 to see if anything is fixed there.

 

I've been trying to fix the HD drive for a couple of weeks now. I dont know how it just dissapeared off the computer like that. Ive tried reinstalling the driver and rollback but none of its is bringing the drive back.

 

Have you contacted Toshiba?

 

Im in Iraq so its kind of hard to contact them. Besides I dont want them to tell me to send it in.. haha

 

Try contacting your friendly local Iraqi Toshiba dealer and see what they can do.

But seriously, maybe you can find a cheap external cd/dvd drive on ebay, or if there are any computer stores around...atleast until you have the means to fix the HD drive.

 

naw we dont have any shops around here to buy all that crap

 

Vista->XP Increase your 3dmark06 by 1000? no way... not at any resolution.

I think you listened to someone who didn't check their testing resolutions.

XP does result in better game performance over Vista at this time... but figure 5-10%.

I haven't found a reliable way to OC the CPU yet.
(If anyone has a way, please post it, more than likely the 7100 will indeed run faster...)

OCing the 8700m is pretty easy and works very well... and very cool and comfy as well. (check sig)

 

Yep, I agree on the overclocking.... push the GPU's a bit, but don't worry about the CPU... Chosin, a member here tried and to the best of my knowledge never got anything to work right with the Toshiba bios....

There's also some pretty good guides online to help tweak Crysis performance, and incrysis.com has some good info and setup files as well.... check em out. But, Rivatuner will let you bump up the GPU core and memory speeds to help some.

 

And a clean reinstall of Vista does wonders for general performance, but don't really see any reason to go back to XP.... so far nothing I've tried under vista with this machine has been an issue, works good

 

what exactly do you tweak in rivatuner?

 

It has a ton of options, but mainly I use it to overclock the gpu's, and monitor their temps, along with the CPU temp (seperate plugin, but works great)

 

what do you overclock your gpu's to?

 

Mine is stable in almost everything at 776 core, 1552 shader, 938(x2) memory...

I have gotten almost stable results (crysis demo and 3dmark06 crash, everything else works) at 800 core, 1600 shader, 1000(x2) memory!


Please do NOT start at that level of overclock.
Start low and work upward running benchmarks/timedemos the whole time.
(3dmark06 works, so does a looping timedemo)

Example:

Start with a warm-up overclock of 10% or so
688core, 1376 shader, 880(x2) memory
I have very little doubt that will work just fine for the 8700m.
Test it for an hour or so with 3-5 runthroughs of 3dmark06 or your favorite timedemo... or even just playing a more intensive game for 30 minutes or so...


Then up it in 5% increments, testing as you go.

Sooner or later you will encounter artifacts, crashes, or instability, then stop and find out what component (core/shader/ram) has reached it limit with trial and error. (my bet is RAM first)

I'd consider the 800/1600/1000(x2) near the top of the hardware's capability, but who knows, maybe you got really lucky...

DO NOT be tempted to use larger numbers when you aren't stable...
Getting slightly faster and creating instability is not helpful.

Once you reach the top of your capability, back it down one notch from where you thought it was perfectly stable (as people tend to be one notch too optimistic...)

 

riva tuner is wierd... how do you get it to save the changed settings

 

Just wondering (im new at this) is there any way to flash a new BIOS for the Toshiba one to be able to enable CPU overclocking? It would be nice to be able to get a little more out of my CPU since dont want to upgrade my T7250.
If not then how difficult is it to upgrade CPU and will this void the warranty?

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Toshiba X205-Sli1

 

No real way to overclock the CPU that anybody's found, and a guy named Chosin on here tried fairly hard. As far as replacement, it is a fairly involved process, requiring essentially taking apart the entire laptop... doable, but will void the warranty, and if you aren't over comfortable with this stuff, I wouldn't recommend it. But, there is a guide you can find on here that shows the process of dissasembly, which will help ya out if you do go that route.

 

maybe ill wait a while then... crysis seems to run fine for me and with all the new drivers and what not seems theres no real need for me to void the warranty.... yet. I just wish Toshiba would realize that people buying their gaming laptops would like to have more options for tweeking. Thanks for the help!