22 replies to this topic

[MonsterHunterMaster]

Yeah, I stopped it. Well, I have to say, while playing Battlefield I had the media player open and Battlefield set to high settings, but though I don't want to overclock it now...it reached 80 degrees with overclocking the Gpu from 609 to 620 Mhz...I better stop it right now. Maybe it will get better a bit if I use GameBooster too.

Or I put the laptop into the fridge..hmm..The Gpus temperature is about 10 degrees then..Hehe, gotta try it out *just joking*

[Illiad86]

lol I used to have a box fan blowing right next to me when I played games on the old laptop lol Thing was terrible though...cheap Dell Like I said...that won't kill it, it's just not safe to me IMO.

[Thor.]

depends...anything above 70C on a CPU is a no no for AMD...Intel's can go a heck of a lot higher.

GPUs...well supposedly they cook themselves at 100C or some range like that...but the hotter it gets the less the performance is. I'd make sure it doesn't go above 75-80C...but I'm not entirely sure on a laptop. Everything is all crammed in there nice and snug and if it doesn't have heatpipes it'll get hot very fast. I had to make feet for mine out of clay to keep it elevated because it ran hot as heck...but it was a mid 2000 laptop...sure they have better cooling these days.

Just be carefull, most invidia cards can go around 80c on load, but anything higher is not a good idea, my card runs around 68c to 70c during games and never goes any higher .

Even when OC'ed

In idle runs around 39c for some reason, used to run around the 35c mark at one point, lol probably do to overclocking i guess.

[Sinophile]

I didn't even know they had programs for overclocking. I had a Gateway that wasn't overclocked, but used to play Second Life(a very resource intensive program). I burnt out the Power supply in less than a year. All in all, overclocking a laptop sounds like a bad idea. How long is your usual gaming session?

Or I put the laptop into the fridge..hmm..The Gpus temperature is about 10 degrees then..Hehe, gotta try it out *just joking*

Joking aside, the fridge shouldn't do any harm to your laptop, the freezer will. Either way, be sure to keep it in a plastic bag to keep out moisture.

[Thor.]

In Crysis i Played for a good 3 hours once, never went over 70c.


Getting a decent 60fps in that game now

[Sinophile]

So I downloaded this program out of curiosity, and I can't really make sense of it, since everything seems uber-technical.

[MonsterHunterMaster]

I dunno really why I should overclock my memory.
What is it good for? Any explanations?

[Thor.]

Faster memory meaning better performance, for instants ddr2 at 400mhz vs the one at ghz makes a Huge difference.

Especially in games like Oblivion.

[MonsterHunterMaster]

Can the memory overheat just like the gpu?
If not, I could push that thing to it's limit, or is that wrong?

[Illiad86]

Do you have AMD CPU? The RAM goes up when you increase the bus speed of the CPU. Mine was at 800MHz. My CPU was at 2.6GHz. I turned my CPU up to 3.2GHz and my RAM went up to 891MHz. Intel's, I believe on the older chips (Core 2, Pentium) you can turn them up individually..and on the new Core i5, i7 processors the memory controller is like how AMDs is...don't take my word for it...haven't used Intel chips since Pentium IV

RAM can't really overheat...not that I know of. It has a certain voltage limit it can run at. The most I could get out of mine is maybe 925MHz...and that's if my motherboard could handle a 125W CPU...which it can't lol. I could easily get this chip to 3.5GHz but the MOSFET would go poof. Too much voltage will fry them.

But lol...another thing I wouldn't do on a laptop...and if it's a Dell, HP, Gateway...you can't unless you do what we had to do on our Inspiron 6000 (got a thread in here about it), but you have to have that specific socket to do so. They lock the BIOS on those so you can't do all the goodies lol.