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Vostro 1400 overclocking, its crazy.

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by Zer0N1nja, Aug 9, 2007.

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  1. ChaosKye

    ChaosKye Notebook Consultant

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    I highly doubt its actually at 24c. Thats almost 75F. I don't think a cooling fan and max settings on fan will lower the temperature THAT much. Unless perhaps you keep your room around 18c.

    Also, I'd still be wary on the accuracy of any of these temperature readings. They haven't been tested with any of these new laptops and there may be some "compensations" to the readings that need to be made to give you accurate numbers.
     
    ChaosKye, Aug 14, 2007
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    are the 158.36 better then the 101.28??
     
    devilsnight, Aug 14, 2007
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    I got a higher base Windows Experience score w/ the 158.36 than w/ the stock drivers but I didn't bother w/ any benches.
     
    ChaosKye, Aug 15, 2007
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    pattertj Notebook Enthusiast

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    I had my card at 600/750 and was playing BF2 last night no problem. Then this morning it won't clock past the low power 3d speeds of 275/300. I tried re-booting and reinstalling the 158.36 drivers. Any chance that my 8400M GS is fried???
     
    pattertj, Aug 15, 2007
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    No, pattertj, i think what happened to you is what happened to me. You may have clocked it too far.....what you should do is.


    download Driver cleaner pro 1.5
    install Driver cleaner
    uninstall the nvidia video driver, in the control panel.
    uninstall Rivatuner (if you are using it)
    restart your computer once its uninstalled.
    boot your computer into safe mode.
    Run Driver cleaner, select clean nvidia.
    once it finishes cleaning, restart the computer and install the drivers again.
    and install rivatuner (if you use it)


    its not fried dont worry.
     
    devilsnight, Aug 15, 2007
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    Hi devilsknight, what do you mean by 'clocking it too far'? Does this happen each time you guys overclock? I am just curious. I am on a D630 with a Quadro 135m...and thinking about overclocking as well, but after each reboot we have to do everything above ?
     
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    Well I tried that tip out Devilsnight and that didn't do it...

    What did fix it was changing out of vistas power saver mode... :eek:

    Well that had me worried for a bit...

    Anyone know what temperature monitor is the best choice, or what the safe temps are for the 8400m gs?
     
    pattertj, Aug 15, 2007
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    Okay, I think we have to really clean up this thread a bit. What we've concluded...


    We aren't SURE what temperature monitoring tool is accurate since none of them have been officially tested w/ the new inspirons. Some of them are giving temperatures that are extremely high and some that are extremely low. The best temperature monitor.. an infrared thermometer.

    The cooling on the 1420/1400 sucks. Stock cooling doesn't get airflow to the GPU so overclocking high as 600/750 is definitely not safe.

    If you read a bit you'll see that even mild overclocking was raising the temperature quite a bit above stock using temperatures from Rivatuner/ntune/atitools.

    Devilsnight did some personal adjustments to his laptop so everyone plz know that before you try to clock crazy high.
     
    ChaosKye, Aug 15, 2007
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    plwarrior Notebook Enthusiast

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    XPS M1330 3DMarks:

    [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]


    Now after oc: GPU 554 MEM 839

    [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]


    Temp GPU 97!!!!!
     
    plwarrior, Aug 15, 2007
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  10. ChaosKye

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    What did you use to read your GPU temperature?
     
    ChaosKye, Aug 15, 2007
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