Overclocking Laptop

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Tim

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Hey, I have a Inspiron 8500 with a Nvidia Geforce 4 4200 Go 64MB and i love to game and was wondering if there was a way to overclock my card? my computer of course is a laptop and im sure the main concern is overheating, i have this fan control where i can control my fans and turn them hight or low so i dont think that would be much of a problem, if it is let me know, and BTW i don't even know how to overclock so i would love some help if i can safely in the first place


thx
 
Nvidia has a nice OCing program hidden called coolbits, to get there:

Start>Run Type "regedit" (no qoutes) This will bring you to the windows regestry editer. Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak

Once inside that folder, right-click, and choose new>DWORD value

Name the value Coolbits

Right-click on Coolbits, choose modify

Change the data value to 3, and click OK

You should have to reboot...
 
Then, right-click on the desktop, choose properties>settings>advanced

Click the tab that has your display adapter listed, and take a screenshot of it (ctrl>alt>prt scr-above the delete key on my desktop, I dunno where it is on a laptop)

Post that screen for me to see, from there I will tell you what to do...

btw, I just OCed my fx5200 using this same program.....worked for me, I dunno if it will work for you. Never tried it on a laptop

P.S. My name is Tim too
 
Tim said:
Hey Tim, thx for the help, how do i post my screenshot?


thx for helping!
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I guess you have the screenshot....go into some picture editing program (ie Paint), and hit paste. Then, save it as whatever, and attach it in your reply. Below the reply box is the button "manage attachments" click, that, then "upload," and your screenshot will appear in your reply

From that screenshot, I can tell you if you can OC, and how to go about doing so.
 
uh oh, the file is too large, i put it as a Jpeg but still, what should i do?

edit: and so i do the screenshot of the tab? should i click on my vid cards tab to go into it?
 
Tim said:
uh oh, the file is too large, i put it as a Jpeg but still, what should i do?
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Figured

You would have to lower the quality somehow, I dunno how with Paint, I use Irfanview, which lets you change the quality of jpegs, you should download it:

http://www.irfanview.com/

very fast download, very nice free program.

Just paste it in there, click save as, jpeg if it isn't the default, then there should be a menu that pops up on the right. 50% should be sufficient
 
Tim said:
uh oh, the file is too large, i put it as a Jpeg but still, what should i do?

edit: and so i do the screenshot of the tab? should i click on my vid cards tab to go into it?
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yes
 
oops, u cant read that i guess uhhh,

Adapter Information

Processor: Geforce 4200 Go

Bus: AGP 4x

Memory: 64mb

System information

System Processor: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00Ghz

DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0 or better

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is that enough info?
 
Ick!

On the tab on the right, go to clock frequency settings. Switch it to manual OCing, then take the core speed up by 5MHz or so, checking games to see if they lag, freeze, etc. Once you get to the point where they do so, lower it 10 MHz, then do the same with the RAM speed. If you get a message saying that the card can't go any higher, like I did when I reached the limit, that is as far as it will go. BE CAREFUL Don't do big jumps in speed, that is a good way to blow up your card.

BTW, make sure you click the apply at startup button (if applicable) otherwise, it won't be OCing when you turn it off/on

Have fun!
 
Tim said:
oops, u cant read that i guess uhhh,

Adapter Information

Processor: Geforce 4200 Go

Bus: AGP 4x

Memory: 64mb

System information

System Processor: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00Ghz

DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0 or better

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is that enough info?
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I could read it good enough....I really didn't need that info, I just needed to know what your specific menus llooked like, they are all different
 
well after tinkering with it for a while i have increased it quite a bit and i can notice a change for the better in performence, thanks alot for helping me! and my temp seems fine, i have not noticed any change in it.


thx again!
 
Tim said:
well after tinkering with it for a while i have increased it quite a bit and i can notice a change for the better in performence, thanks alot for helping me! and my temp seems fine, i have not noticed any change in it.


thx again!
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Did you reach the limit of the card, or did the games get choppy? (just curiosity)
 
Figured You would have to lower the quality somehow
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I have no idea why people have such hard time fitting images within 39K and still be readable

I could read it good enough....I really didn't need that info, I just needed to know what your specific menus llooked like, they are all different
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The nice thing about nVidia (and also to a degree, ATI) drivers now is that they are essentially the same. With the Coolbits2 thingy there really essentyially the same :)

These are essentially the two screenies you'll be lookin at:
 

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Praetor said:
I have no idea why people have such hard time fitting images within 39K and still be readable
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I think it was because he got the whole desktop in his screenie, not just the screen
 
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