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    I'm so noob .. pls help?

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by ochie927, Jul 2, 2009.

  1. ochie927

    ochie927 Newbie

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    Hi! I just purchased a GX620 from newegg and just got it today. I have been reading around that it's easy to overclock this notebook since it all it takes is just a press of a button (turbo button). Well I did that and looking at my system, it showed 2.26GHz .. after pressing the turbo button, I checked again and it didn't change, it's still 2.26GHz. I restarted notebook, went to bios and changed it to 20% (or at least I think that's what it was) and nothing changed after pressing the turbo button. Am I doing something wrong here? The notebook is plugged in ..

    Help? :(
     
    ochie927, Jul 2, 2009
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  2. neilnat

    neilnat Notebook Evangelist

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    How are you checking the speed? Are you just looking at system properties in windows or using RMclock or some other utility?
     
    neilnat, Jul 2, 2009
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  3. Fragilexx

    Fragilexx Get'cha head in the game

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    Are you putting it under load whilst checking it? Try running something like Orthos and then checking.
     
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    nacr05 Extreme Overclocker

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    nacr05, Jul 2, 2009
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