Originally posted by: BouZouki
Stop flashing your card, stop overclocking.
Be happy with your system, stop trying to overclock to gain a few fps because when your battery dies while flashing or the bios is corrupt, i'll be here laughing.
UGH People like you, I swear!Originally posted by: BouZouki
Stop flashing your card, stop overclocking.
Be happy with your system, stop trying to overclock to gain a few fps because when your battery dies while flashing or the bios is corrupt, i'll be here laughing.
Why do you care about 3dMark scores. They mean nothing!!
Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
Why do you care about 3dMark scores. They mean nothing!!
Just let it automatically overclock, or build a desktop PC.
What do you mean it wont let you manually OC. Does it just say tests failed, do you get artifacts, or is the option just not there (it is always there).
-Kevin
Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
#1, we dont need to know where your card stands. 3dMark is probably the most innacurate benchmark ever. The companies can optimize for it, and it doesn't accurately represent real gaming performance. For instance the Geforce FX series always beat the Radeons in 3dMark. However in games the Radeons slaughtered the FX's.
#2, how do you know 545 isn't stable. Have you ran through some real games with it. If/When you do that, if there are artifacts it is unstable. If not it is, obviously, fine.
#3, test doesn't change the clocks. Test merely tests those settings. You select the settings hit test, and then apply those changes.
Finally, if you are so hellbent on OCing this poor card, then in Riva Tuner there is an option to manually input clockspeeds (any clockspeeds). I haven't used it in a ~year so i cannot remember exactly where it is.
-Kevin
Oh yeah, it may not be changing because it is a mobile chip, and keeps throttling down everytime you change it since you are not in a 3d application.
Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
OK in that case
#1. Why in the hell are you complaining. YOu just scored near 100fps at high resolution widescreen with settings near maxed out.
#2. It freezes in what way. DOes it hard lock where you have to hit the reset button or is it "CTRL+ALT+DEL-able"
#3. The card cannot be locked from OCing. Explain how you think they would do this. Dont you think someone would have complained already if that were the case.
#4. How do you know it isn't throttling down? If it is in 2D mode why would it be running full tilt. Have a game up and running and then look at your clockspeeds.
#5. Why am i typing in numbers
-Kevin
Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
The card doesn't have that much more potential. Some people OC for fun, some for more performance. RIght now your games run fine, why put the extra strain on your components until you need to.
Seems like it overheats, and locks up. But could be too high of a clock.
They cannot simply lock it. Dell locks there computers by simply not giving you the OCing options in the bios. They dont lock it. You cannot lock a card from OCing. You can have a bad card, which has no headroom however.
Because that is what the Go series does. It runs at the minimum power and speed settings until needed. Im not saying it is throttling from being too hot, but it is a mobile chip and is conserving power in ever way possible. Run a 3d Game and look at the graphs while it is running. Probably clocks up to its full speed 3d clocks.
-Kevin
Do you think you could find it, I am not having any luck...Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
It must be something with the mobile version of the chipset.
Use the manual override in Riva tuner. Like i said, cant remember where it is, but you can manually go and type in the clockspeed you want.
-Kevin
Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
Open Riva Tuner and go to power user.
Scroll down to where it says Riva Tuner [Version]\Overclocking\Current Device
Under there input your desired clock under core clock or any of the defaults.
-Kevin
Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
The BIOS controls only the default clocks. OCing does not change the BIOS in anyway. Did you make sure to enable that option and hit apply.
-Kevin
Originally posted by: Ronin
Gamingphreek, the bioses are in fact locked, and currently the only way to OC them is via flash (before you ask, yes, I have one). There is no known direct modification that can be made to the bios (via hex) at this time that will remove this lock.
I dislike the fact that Dell sent them that way, but it's at their discretion, I suppose.
I'm running mine at 525/650 (as on Notebookforums, that is the highest preconfigured modified bios they have), and things are running fairly smoothly. I may take a run myself and start modifying bioses by request.