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    Overclocking the 330M GT

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by E30kid, Jul 7, 2010.

  1. E30kid

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    Has anybody had any success with overclocking the 330M GT in Windows? I was wondering if anyone had gotten it up to 335M GT speeds.

    I was also wondering what the temps would be like compared to stock clockspeeds.

    To go along with this, I was wondering about fan utilities. Are these windows only, or are there tools that work in OS X?

    Thanks.
     
    E30kid, Jul 7, 2010
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  2. H.A.L. 9000

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    GT 330m won't be coming near the performance of the GT335m. The 335 has 72 Unified Shaders (or CUDA cores), whereas the 330m only has 48. Also the GT330m is just a faster clocked 230m which is based on the 240m. Gotta love NVIDIA's naming schemes. Though both of them are extremely overclockable, so someone might surprise me.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Jul 7, 2010
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  3. E30kid

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    Yeah, I guess that I had bad info. Now I know.
     
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    doh123, Jul 7, 2010
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    I just hope more of those 335m cores make it further than Alienware. I want to see other notebooks with that core, it's looks like a great graphics card.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Jul 7, 2010
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    i don't like the idea, macs get hot anyway, their ventilation is just sufficient for normal use , i think macs + overclocking = Fire
     
    beige, Jul 8, 2010
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    I think that a fan utility would solve most of that problem. I'm not too worried.
     
    E30kid, Jul 8, 2010
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    i already feel worried when i use parallels in OSX , the computer gets hot with fan running at 5k , furthermore i live in a hot country , temperatures range between 25-38 C , so laptops gets hotter more than in countries that they test them in
     
    beige, Jul 8, 2010
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