M6600 Owners Thread

I haven't bothered oc'ing a video card since the 90's, but I am going to try it b/c you guys are =D

I have always bought EVGA cards before, and I like their EVGA Precision software. I mostly use it to see my temp in the icon tray next to my RealTemp CPU temp. I also used it with shortcuts to control my fan %. Everything works except the fan control.

Confirmed with GPU-Z that the clocks did change.

Edit: Just did 5 minutes of FurMark 1280x720 non full screen. 620 Core / 1240 Shader / 1500 Memory. The highest it got was 68, and also the fastest I've ever seen the fans operate -- I'm assuming it was 100% or near it. I don't know of any software that actually lets you see the fan RPM, and the only software that lets you control is pretty shadey / may not work for this model. After the fans were on it came back down to 64-65. 1500 Memory is the highest that EVGA Precision will let me go, btw.

 

By using a combo of EVGA precision and MSI afterburner I can get 720 core 1625 memory. But still perfectly stable there, meaning there's room for more.

We need to find an OC tool without limits or at least much higher limits....

 

First step with MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision (Core + Shaders). Second step (RAM) with Nvidia Inspector, since it allows for higher memory clock. I think you can't maximize all at once with a single software.

Be very careful though!

 

Thanks!

Nvidia Inspector did the trick for both! Just adjust the shader speed for core speed!

This quadro 3000m does around 750 / 1900 it seems!
beats out a stock 6970M in benches so far..

 

I have been playing Portal 2 @ 1920x1200, 16xQ CSAA, everything on High.

Never dropped below 60fps. Anywhere from 57-60c. Used about 500m of ram, 50-60% of the GPU.

I was worried this wouldn't be good with games, because I played Witcher 2. I had 2GB of stock RAM, and the 250gb HDD. Now I have the OCZ and 16GB of Hyper-X.

It's handling perfectly right now.

All with 620 Core / 1240 Shader / 1500 Memory. Idk if I will ever OC it more, I'm happy with 580GTX scores =D

I do have a shortcut with Precision that puts it back to stock when I'm not gaming.

 

Careful?

Ive already emailed the maker of Nibitor to see if we can get a BIOS to increase the voltage.

0.94 is extremely low! It's no wonder it runs so cool...

 

Thanks for running that test, Bokeh.

Clockspeed by itself is (extremely) unlikely to damage anything. The worst that you'll likely encounter if you go too far is instability or graphics corruption. Overvolting is another issue entirely but if the voltages stay stock and the temperature remains in spec (and these things are probably rated to 90 or 100*C), simply upping the clockspeed shouldn't-in and of itself-cause problems.

You brought up an interesting point in your earlier post with the BIOS version thing. What BIOS versions are those of you that are running into problems with Optimus running?

 

That's good to know. I think mine came stock with A03.

 

Show me your scores on your OC's. I think my M8900 OC'ed to clock-to-clock Desktop 6850 can still decimate yours.

I accept your challenges! (Once my replacements comes in haha!)

 

My i7 desktop vs your replacement M6600.