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    EVGA or MSI to change overclock based on program?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by DeeVu, Jul 22, 2011.

  1. DeeVu

    DeeVu That Compsci/Psych Major

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    Is there a way to change the overclock based on which program I am using? The reason I ask is that normally my GPU can hold an overclock of 585/1404/900 on every game. The only game that won't is WoW and it will hard lock unless its 450/980/790 (underclocked). THIS IS NOT A THREAD ON HOW TO FIX THAT... unless you know the reason there are plenty of threads on it already and none of those solutions worked. I want to know if there is an option to change it automatically?
     
  2. DeeVu

    DeeVu That Compsci/Psych Major

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    bump, any thoughts?
     
  3. potentiality

    potentiality Notebook Consultant

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    Could you make a batch file that only starts the evga program (presetup to auto start at the lower voltage) when you run WOW and closes it when you stop?
     
  4. DeeVu

    DeeVu That Compsci/Psych Major

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    I don't know enough about the coding. I guess that would work. I'll look around and report back if I find anything
     
  5. ToxicYuGreen

    ToxicYuGreen Notebook Enthusiast

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    First of all, very jealous of your clock speed. My stable clock for every game right now is 548/1315/843.

    Second, screw wow, sell ur account and save the $20 a month? :D
     
  6. DeeVu

    DeeVu That Compsci/Psych Major

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    I would if I didn't have 21 friends from my dorm playing and I didn't actually do well in it. But alas this is not the case.
     
  7. hermitmaster

    hermitmaster Notebook Consultant

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    Use nTune, profit.
     
  8. some guy

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    Evga presicion has profiles you can set up for different clocks/games. you just manually select what profiles you wnat to use too, if you want a easy way to do it.

    just pick the stable clocks for wow, then hit apply, then right click on one of the preset numbers at the bottom of the presicion window/widget. then any time you go to play wow just click on the wow preset and hit apply. its that easy. then after your done with wow hit the other preset with the higher clocks and hit apply and your good to go for the other games.
     
  9. DeeVu

    DeeVu That Compsci/Psych Major

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    Yes I've seen that, its just a hassle hahaha. Guess I'm lazy and sometimes forget to change and the downside to forgetting to change is an instant blue screen upon opening WoW. Which can add 3-4minutes of waiting between start up and logging back in. Ill look at nTune.

    edit: Well scratch nTune off the list - it gives a BSOD referring to the nvidia clock system file. Not worth the trouble of debugging that. I guess I'll just make do and go to manually switching profiles like I have been doing. Thanks for all the input.