I found a neat thread explaing how to, through a vBIOS flash, to raise the clocks and voltages of my graphics card. It basically involved booting into DOS from a flash drive, ripping my vBIOS onto said flash drive, modifying it to raise clock speeds and voltages, then copying back over. It was such a pain in the ass, I tell you. Anyways, results.
Before:- Core Speed - 530 MHz
- Shader Speed - 1325 MHz
- Memory Speed - 800 MHz
After:- Core Speed - 600 MHz
- Shader Speed - 1500 MHz
- Memory Speed - 800 MHz
And I also raised my voltage from 1.05v to 1.11v, so basically I upgraded my GPU from a 9800m GS to a 9800m GTS.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-9800M-GS.12932.0.htmlhttp://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-9800M-GTS.9918.0.htmlThat gives me about a 14% increase in performance, and so far all stress tests are showing that it doesn't overheat.
Couple that with my CPU that I recently overclocked to 2.4GH/z from 2.13GH/z, and I'd say my laptop just got a good deal better.
Discuss e-peen and how unsafe it is to overclock on a laptop.
