485m overclocking results?

[hizzaah]

3D Mark 11 scores not the best though

3DMark 11 Results

Using Performance Presets
Total PCMarks: P2529
Graphics Score: 2662
Physics Score: 2296
Combined Score: 2074
Combined FPS: 9.64962
Graphics Test 1 FPS: 12.59500
Graphics Test 2 FPS: 12.44190
Graphics Test 3 FPS: 15.58766
Graphics Test 4 FPS: 8.22104
Physics Test FPS: 7.29083

PCMark Vantage Results

Total PCMarks: 11708
Memories Suite: 6631
TV and Movies Suite: 5959
Gaming Suite: 12222
Music Suite: 10887
Communications Suite: 11860
Productivity Suite: 10553
HDD Suite: 7433


Benchmark Completed at: 03-21-2011 @ 12:15

Some of the stock configs

posted in the 8150's owners lounge. Thanks for the results Windkull

[dodgehemi0]

I dont know about amd drivers, but with the ones i have now, i often get the driver kernel or smtn has stopped responding.
I need to shutdown pc, wait 5 minutes and turn it on again.

Hey man i got that message to so i called sager tech support and they said the gpu needed replacing. I have an x7200 with gtx 485.

[mwmorph]

I have the following specs
i7 2720qm
Single 485m
Sager NP8170/Clevo P170HM chasis
Verde 265.xx stock drivers

I can score 3569 on 3dmark11 at 700/1400/1800 stale but games dont run stable at that frequency. Battlefield Bad Company 2 will crash at even 679/1358/1700 after a while (15/30 min) Crysis/Warhead/Crysis 2 crashes at even 679/1358/1725 after 5-10 mniutes at 679/1358/1725. I use 665/1370/1700 now which are frankly fairly disappointing results.

The thing is these games don't artifact all all, they just go to a yellow checkerboard pattern on top of the rendered image followed by a system freeze and a need for power button hard reboot. There's no GPU recovery or anything so it is quite frustrating and I'm leaning towards power delivery issues than the chip hitting its limits. I just installed Beta 270.28 drivers and I'll see if the situation improves.

As a side note, I'm not very happy with the overclocking software on Nvidia's side. The last card I overclocked was a ATI HD4870 back in late 2008 with ATI Tray tools and that went much more smoothly than now when I use MSI Afterburner. I just set it to auto overclock and then backed off 15mhz on the core and 25mhz on the memory from max detected frequencies. Is there's a similar program for Nvidia cards? I really haven't used Nvidia overclocking tools since the coolbits and nTune days so I'm no longer an exert on this sort of thing.

That on top of Nvidia not supporting these GTX485m in official driver updates 2 months after release rather put me in a not very positive attitude about Nvidia software. I do rather miss monthly driver updates that actually support my top of the line graphics card.

[hizzaah]

Please do post back if your results change after updating drivers.. You monitoring temps during gaming?

[mwmorph]

Please do post back if your results change after updating drivers.. You monitoring temps during gaming?

I have the afterburner overlay on all the time monitoring frequencies, temps and FPS. Temps rarely exceed 71-73*C in a room with ambient about 23-25*C. The cooling system in this laptop seems quite good. I've seen some low 80s but only under furmark.

I just tried running 3Dmark11 again. At 700/1400/1800, it crashes on test 2, the underwater submarine one. Fortunately the gpu does recover so it wasn't a hard lock. At 700/1400/1750, it crashed on test 4 or so, the CPU physics test doesn't render at all and stays on a black screen. Maybe it's because I have 2 HDDs and 8 gigs of ram, but my theory is that the 185w power brick is struggling to push enough power through for a 45w cpu, 100w gpu and still running everything else for just a power budget of 40w.

I think I'll roll back to WHQL certified 267.76 drivers.

[uracoin]

so the gtx 485 does not overclock that well in the p150? have you tried to overvolt anything?

[hizzaah]

Maybe it's because I have 2 HDDs and 8 gigs of ram, but my theory is that the 185w power brick is struggling to push enough power through for a 45w cpu, 100w gpu and still running everything else for just a power budget of 40w.

If this is true, I probably won't be gettin to much out of an over clock either lol.

[Eivind]

It doesnt OC that well in terms of 3dmark06 score from 19xxx to 20xxx. But going from stock to 680/1360 core/shader, memory at stock, gave me around 15% increase in FPS running Crysis 2.

[Kevin]

If it is a power issue, the simplest solution is to buy one of the P170HM's 220W PSUs.

You guys should to keep in mind, that housing the GTX 485M in the P150HM is already quite the feat of engineering, so you need to temper your expectations on what qualifies as a good overclock.

Besides, what current games even necessitate the overclock?

[hizzaah]

If it is a power issue, the simplest solution is to buy one of the P170HM's 220W PSUs.

Do they have the same connectors? Would the bigger psu cause an issue if the p150 was left at stock settings (just want to know of the bigger psi will cause damage)..? Also, what's the size of the p170 brick vs the size of the p150's?

You guys should to keep in mind, that housing the GTX 485M in the P150HM is already quite the feat of engineering, so you need to temper your expectations on what qualifies as a good overclock.

Noted

Besides, what current games even necessitate the overclock?

Probably none really. Maybe Metro? Some people just enjoy the thrill of OC to get better scores then everyone else