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You definitely should not do it. They shipped new GPUs to people but those GPUs will get into laptops after everything else is gone. Dell has no reason to throw away chips that it can sell at 95% of the market has no clue the chips fail early. By OCing, even with a notebook cooler, you are still stressing the chip. Since a laptop gets turned on and off a lot more than a desktop you'll just be stressing it more than the average user does and a notebook cooler won't help with that initial stress.
As with any OCing you should generally not just jump to a clock. All chips are different and your chip may not even boot if the mhz is bumped 1 or it might OC 50%. Generally you can bump stuff up in 10 mhz increments and see the max you can get. I'm pretty sure 10 mhz is the increments you would use for a GPU although after Nvidia's multiple claims on the story to the NVision event along with the fact that dell has known these chips were messed up since November of last year you are just asking for your GPU to die.
no, you shoudl definitely do it. i odnt know what everyone else is talking about..it wont die for at least a few months.. but when it does, the 8600m gt's will probably not be in production anymore. thus, when dell services it, you may get an upgrade to a 9xxx series gpu
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