Overclocking M9000

Jaden

Hello everyone. I have been trying to get a little extra performance from this M9000 until I can afford to buy the Quadro4 for my Inspiron 8200. I was just curious if anyone has any good suggestions. And my main question is regarding overclocking.

Does anyone know what is the max (safe) clock rates I can use for my M9000 in my Dell I8200? The manufacturer's standards on my card are:

Core - 238.50 Memory - 194.63

I have them clocked at this right now:

Core - 249.75 Memory - 229.50

If you don't know safe max rates for my combo of hardware, then what GPU temperature would be too hot? I have a proggie to detect the GPU temp sensor, so I can monitor it that way and keep upping the rate till I get close to too hot a temp.

Any help will be appreciated, thanx again.

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Jaden

Oh, and I forgot to mention..

PLZ take into consideration I swapped out my Mobile Pentium 4-m 1.6Ghz CPU for a desktop Pentium 4 2.8Ghz chip. So there is already some excess heat (not too much though, runs at an average 130 degrees F), not too sure if that'll make a big difference, but the CPU and video adapter are pretty close to each other. Don't want to fry anything you understand

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Randomness

Hello:

Some notebook manufactures disable overclocking features because heat dissipation is limited in notebook chassis design, and may not always allow sufficient cooling required for overclocking.

Take care.

Jaden

I have overclocked the card a bit more, and resulted in artifacts on the screen during gameplay but not system shutdown or other failure. So from here I figure I'll bring the rates down until I don't see any more artifacts and assume that to be the best settings. I will also be picking up an external cooling pad and see if that will help as one of the two fans will be almost directly below the M9000 (And the other fan almost directly below my CPU). I cross my fingers that my tinkering doesn't fry the card Thanks for the reply.

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