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    8600M GT Overclocked to speeds of 7950M GTX???

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by BradyGoruk, Oct 14, 2011.

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    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    It is possible to overclock it, and you may get close to 7950M GTX speeds. But I would make sure your temps are really low before you do that, because every 8600m GT is faulty, they eventually will die.
    Try to keep it under 70C max.

    There is no point in sharing more ram with it, you wont see any difference.
     
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    Thanks. And okay. I have applied AS5 to the GPU so that should lower my temps a little! And I have one more question. Would I be able to get the 8600M GT the work just as good as the 7950M GTX?
     
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    Well the 7950M gets around 10000 points in 3dmark05.
    If you overclock your 8600m GT to around 700mhz core and 900mhz vram, you should get around 10000 points (that's if your card has GDDR3 vram).
     
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    1720/1520 only had DDR2 8600M GT's. I think only later soldered G84M's and MXM 8600M GT's had GDDR3. Don't think any Dell's had DDR3 8600M GT's.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Oct 15, 2011
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