The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Overclocking not giving any performance boost...

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Aftermath91, Aug 16, 2010.

  1. Aftermath91

    Aftermath91 Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    8
    Messages:
    65
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    With OC disabled I was getting around 22 avg fps in the Mafia 2 demo on medium settings...thinking I would get an increase in fps, I OCed the cpu (i7) to 162. But when I started the game again I am roughly getting the same performance which is around 23 avg fps on med settings.

    I am running on the Nvidia 259.22 drivers. So any suggestions on what I can do to get better performance and why did overclocking the cpu make no difference? (I am a noob to PC gaming)

    thanx
     
    Aftermath91, Aug 16, 2010
    #1
  2. ACHlLLES

    ACHlLLES Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    303
    Messages:
    2,199
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    I gave up on OCing CPU after trying it once and saw no difference on 3dmark06.
     
    ACHlLLES, Aug 16, 2010
    #2
  3. Crazy J

    Crazy J Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    54
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Don't know anything about that game.

    Maybe graphics card is the bottleneck. Use GPU-Z to see what your graphics card load is, and task manager to see what your CPU load is... I would guess that if graphics card ~100% and CPU is < 100 percent, that the GPU is the bottleneck, and overclocking CPU won't help much.
     
    Crazy J, Aug 16, 2010
    #3
  4. ebondefender

    ebondefender Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    25
    Messages:
    385
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I also had terrible results. I even turned the PhysX off and all settings to low. I have an R1, so I probably don't have the same performance as those of you with the i5's or i7's etc.

    I ended up preordering it for PS3. That game looks sweet!
     
    ebondefender, Aug 16, 2010
    #4
  5. Aftermath91

    Aftermath91 Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    8
    Messages:
    65
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    ok I don't know what changed (i think I had AA enabled) but I am getting 25 fps avg on medium settings. Not bad but I would have loved it to have around 30 fps avg.
     
    Aftermath91, Aug 16, 2010
    #5
  6. TimeConsumer

    TimeConsumer Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    2
    Messages:
    59
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Just run everything on low. That game still looks good on low settings.
     
    TimeConsumer, Aug 16, 2010
    #6