Overclock Geforce GT540m

Been reading a little about overclocking the 540m processor and wonder who all has done it, and how you went about it.

I recently updated to nvidia drive ver. 296.10, and notice that this driver doesn't say anything about supporting overclock with Nvidia system tools.

While browsing today, I musta been a day early updating my drivers because Nvidia has a new driver ver. 301.42 out as of the 22nd of May.

Again, the new driver doesn't say anything about supporting the Nvidia tools or over clocking.

Searching brought up driver ver. 285.62, from Oct. 24th 2011. This driver says it supports overclocking using the Nvidia System tools.

Here's a link to the various Nvidia drivers as well as a link to the Nvidia System tools

Has anyone on here used the earlier drivers and tools to overclock, or have you tried the tools with the newer drivers?

Anyone run benchmarks after trying out the various drivers to see if a particular version has performed better than another?

 

Not sure what laptop you have. Esp if you have Optimus, I have no idea what method you can use to overclock your nVidia GPU.

For my Z1, I was able to overclock using MSI Afterburner. Not much use to me now as I don't really play computer games.

 

I did install both EVGA Precision and MSI afterburner. Settled on MSI.

I haven't tried the Nvidia tools, It's a rather large file and am not sure what it would do that MSI doesn't do.

I did some over clock around 800/1000 and tried out World of Tanks. Prior to over clock, I was getting a little less than ~30 fps on high settings, after over clock it was upper 30's, usually around 38, sometimes hitting a little over 40 fps.

Temps weren't but one or two degrees C higher than using stock settings. I noticed they usually run around 68 C normally when playing, maybe 69 C when overclocked. Idle is usually 38-41 C.

I have the VPCF233FX. That's about the only game I play at the moment, my oldest son got me in to it and I was curious to see what overclocking would do. It's nice to be able to overclock, play the game and then go back to stock settings.

 

Well, for the heck of it I installed the Nvidia System Tools. They are pretty much a joke, not worth the time to download. Just my opinion, but thought I'd pass it along.

 

Either Precision or Afterburner, both essentially have the same base of Rivatuner anyways. Although if you're on the desktop I'd suggest Afterburner as they have the guy who used to do Rivatuner working on Afterburner and because their betas usually allow voltage unlock, but that's a moot point on a laptop.