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Playing with OC'ing my laptop..

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Chix4mat

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I am mainly interested in just OC'ing my video card a little bit, since I can't immediately see anyway to overclock the CPU. I hope this is in the right forum.. maybe it should go in Video cards, I am not sure :|

At any rate, my 3DMark 2001 score was 6,450 when it was new. Since then I updated the drivers, upped the engine clock 32 mhz, and the memory clock 33 mhz. I now get a score of 7,310.

My main question is.. how far should I go? Should it even be that high.. am I risking anything? I am a relative OC'ing newb. 860+ 3dmarks over stock seems to be a healthy increase, especially when we are talking 6k's. Just want to know if this is safe or not.

Thanks for any help!
 
Chix4mat said:
I am mainly interested in just OC'ing my video card a little bit, since I can't immediately see anyway to overclock the CPU. I hope this is in the right forum.. maybe it should go in Video cards, I am not sure :|

At any rate, my 3DMark 2001 score was 6,450 when it was new. Since then I updated the drivers, upped the engine clock 32 mhz, and the memory clock 33 mhz. I now get a score of 7,310.

My main question is.. how far should I go? Should it even be that high.. am I risking anything? I am a relative OC'ing newb. 860+ 3dmarks over stock seems to be a healthy increase, especially when we are talking 6k's. Just want to know if this is safe or not.

Thanks for any help!
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what video card do you have? what laptop do you have?

as far as OCing the video card, just keep going untill you get artifacts then after that back off a little on the OC untill you dont get any artifacts


as for OCing the CPU, im pretty sure you cant do it. its a prebuilt computer and prebuilts dont allow for overclocking
 
The laptops in my sig.

Geforce 5200 FX Go

Aye, I will try that. Just wanted to know if I could break it, hehe. Thanks!
 
Chix4mat said:
The laptops in my sig.

Geforce 5200 FX Go

Aye, I will try that. Just wanted to know if I could break it, hehe. Thanks!
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What sig?:confused:

EDIT: ME = total n00b here. Didn't have sigs turned on.
 
Laptop + overclocking = bad news. Laptops underclock themselves when heat becomes a problem. Forcing it to run higher = bad news.
 
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