Vostro 1400 overclocking, its crazy.

I think, your game crash is most probably due to too much overclocking; unstable driver is not likely. I test my overclock first with ATItool for artifacts, then with 3DMark06 and Half Life 2 Lost Coast. 72 temperature is not a very high temperature, but this does not mean GPU has to be stable at every frequency when temperature is low, it can still be unstable at low temperature if you overclock above the stable frequency. I would reduce the GPU and mem frequencies until ATItool has no artifacts (do not only trust ATItool alerts, do visual inspection as well), and then 3DMark06 can run several times without any crash. If you still see crashes in Bioshock after this, you can reduce either GPU or MEM frequency further (find if it is GPU or mem with try and error) until crashes disappear. Hope this helps

By the way, do not disregard the possibility that Bioshock could be the problem by itself. If you make sure that every other stability test passes as described above, it is most probably a Bioshock (or Bioshock-driver interaction) problem. In that case, you should wait for a game and/or driver update

 

I have a question about nTune. Whenever I adjust the clock and memory settings and click apply, they revert to factory clock settings. What exactly do I need to do to enable overclocking? My system is in my sig.

 

Latest driver with enabled overclocking is 169.01

 

You have driver with disabled overclocking, download 158.45 or 169.01.. they are latest two driver with enablec OC.

 

Thanks. I've gotten a 3DMark05 score of 4749 (600/820)

 

Hi all
I've just installed 167.26 and it is overclocked enabled! this is the only driver besides the dell one that I could overclock with (before installing this driver I set coolbits to 1 in the inf so maybe this did the trick i haven't tried this with the other drivers). And with rivatuner 2.06 the shader clock can be adjusted independently. So here is my final oc on my Inspiron1520, atitool-stable-and-no-artifacts: 650/1620/510 for ROP/shader/memory (memory is ddr2 it seams ). I also set 3d gpu voltage to 1.2V in bios, it wouldn't be stable past 620MHz at default 1.15V. Note the shader clock, 1620MHz from the stock 800 .
And some scores:
3dm2k6 @ 1280x800 : 1937 ORB
3dm2k3 @ 1024x768 : 7396
I will now flash my card with the new settings they seem ok, the gpu temp only got to some 72C during 3dm2k6.

 

ORB: http://service.futuremark.com/orb/resultanalyzer.jsp?projectType=14&XLID=0&UID=12050507
3dm2k3 @ 1024x768 : 7396
I will now flash my card with the new settings they seem ok, the gpu temp only got to some 72C during 3dm2k6.

 

Hi, I am a newbie to overclocking. I have a 8400 GS also.

So, do I need just a driver and overclocking software? Also where do you download drivers and the software?

And what would you guys recommend for someone running a Vista 32bit processor?

Thanks in advance guys!

 

get your 163.67 for vista from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=14932
extract it to folder, replace the nv4_disp.inf with the modded one, run setup.exe to install it (be sure to remove the old driver and restart before).

For oc i use Rivatuner 2.06 and atitool026 to check for errors.

 

Just thought Id chime in here.

Using 169.09 on XP with 500 core/600 memory overclock, I got 4159 in 3dmark05. I believe this is really close to what my 8600 gt had in my Inspiron 1520. The vostro 1400 is tits!

BTW I was able to get a max memory clock using ati tool of 952 MHz. Max core of only about 630.

Temperatures peak at about 95 celsius running these OC's with 3dmark06.

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