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    overclocking to play games

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by ettehbrute, Sep 10, 2011.

  1. ettehbrute

    ettehbrute Notebook Consultant

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    As of right now, i have to actually over clock more and more to get somewhat decent fps, with the exception of having random fps drops and driver crashes, could it be the card that is pooping out on me?

    the temps about a day ago were fine staying in the mid 50's idle and around 80-89 on full load.
    help is all ways appreciated
     
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    jarvmeister Notebook Consultant

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    Tell us more. What games are you playing, what frame rates are you getting, what over clock settings are you using?
     
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    your idle should be between 40-50 and your temps shouldnt go past 80. u should repaste if youre worried bout your temps
     
    kurupt, Sep 10, 2011
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  4. ettehbrute

    ettehbrute Notebook Consultant

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    Games- Cod4 not mw2, Assassins creed brotherhood

    clocks are 750/1050 temps are about 85 -102 sometimes
    then the game lags terrible
    in cod 4 my old card at stock settings i had around 80-90 fps everywhere now its around 40-50fps with major shuddering with the fps then the screen turns black and my task bar says "your video driver has recovered from an error" constantly.
     
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  5. inap

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    seem to be throttle because of temps. look like a repaste and repad is in order.
     
    inap, Sep 10, 2011
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  6. ettehbrute

    ettehbrute Notebook Consultant

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    paste is enroute, pads, i have no clue or idea of where to get them from.
     
    ettehbrute, Sep 10, 2011
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    i recommend frozen cpu, but since your in isreal, shipping may be expensive.
     
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    And the existing pads may be fine. When I repasted my 5850M, the pads looked OK, so I wiped them off and continued to use them. They worked very well thereafter through a lot of hard benching. If the contact is good between the heatsink and the GPU die and the vram chips, the old pads will serve.
     
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  9. ettehbrute

    ettehbrute Notebook Consultant

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    I honestly have never heard of thermal pads before this laptop, the pads look as if i had removed the heatsink the first time. like a whitish colour, but they are not as tactile as they were before.
    I have some Arctic silver 5 on the way, so hopefully that will fix my issue.
    but about the games running at 20-40 fps at low settings, kinda worrying lol
    i was messing around to see if it would make a difference (its supposed to lol) ad it was even worse!

    but i hope that its just temp issues and not the card, i cant wait another 4 weeks to get the damnd thing lol
     
    ettehbrute, Sep 10, 2011
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