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    Overclock Acer 5920G

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by GeordieFella, Jan 16, 2008.

  1. GeordieFella

    GeordieFella Newbie

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    Hi All,

    First of all sorry if i am posting this in the wrong forum!

    Anyway i have an
    Acer Aspire 5920G
    T7300
    8600M GS
    2GB DDR2 667 Mhz
    250HDD

    I was wondering what i could do to improve the settings graphic capabilities and speed of this machine. Ive downloaded Rivatuner 2.06 and im just getting to grips with what its all about im fairly new to the overclocking thing but i have built a few desktops and have a bit of experiance there. I was wondering if i could upgrade the graphics card or anything like that and if someone knew where i would be able to get one from eg ebay, ebuyer something like that. Any help in improving my machine would be appreciated.

    Thanks for looking!
     
    GeordieFella, Jan 16, 2008
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  2. gino_lee

    gino_lee Notebook Evangelist

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    i doubt u could upgrade the video card. thats the story with most laptops.
    but you definitely should be able to overclock it. not sure what the tool if for nvidia to overclock.

    u could also try omega drivers, it can be used to overclock ATI cards.
     
    gino_lee, Jan 17, 2008
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  3. FuzzyL

    FuzzyL Notebook Guru

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    GeordieFella
    5920 supports MXM-I and MXM-II graphics cards. It means, that you can easly upgrade your video card. For example you can install 8600M GT DDR3 or 9500M GS...and future middle-class videocards.
     
    FuzzyL, Jan 20, 2008
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  4. GeordieFella

    GeordieFella Newbie

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    Excellent just the news i wanted to hear thanks for that mate. Do you know where i can pick up one of these cards? And are they just as easy to fit as a desktop card?
     
    GeordieFella, Jan 21, 2008
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    Shamtu Notebook Geek

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    9500m gs is the same card as 8600m GT so there is no point in changing 8600m GT (it's the same core with diffrent name, read "marketing") however there is a chence that 9600m GT will be MXM-II compatabile and its gpu core will have 64 shaders and it will be made in 65nm technology.

    It's not as easy as desktop cards, becouse You must have card from the same vendor as Your laptop, otherwise You will have to flash vbios with vendors vbios same as your laptop if only there will be such a card...
     
    Shamtu, Jan 21, 2008
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  6. GeordieFella

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    Hmmm. I have a 8600m gs so i suppose there would be no point in just upgrading it to a GT! I have already overclocked the 8600m gs to get a
    3dmark score of 3266 (2400 or something previous). That leads me to my question of wondering if i can pick up a better gpu cooling fan for this and where i would find that!
     
    GeordieFella, Jan 21, 2008
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