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Overclocking and normal work

post #1 of 3
11/12/06 at 2:14am
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Hello,

I was just wondering; I have been testing about several clock/mem speeds for my 7900gs with the bootdisk for a bit now.. (well, a bit; all night long ) Anyways, it'll reduce your battery time, right? Is it that much, not really huh?

I'm using my notebook for school too so I need some portablitity too, but i sure like gaming. Would you guys overclock to vxxxxxx.rom (extra voltage)? That WILL reduce my battery time by much, right? I guess I have to pick the highest mem/clock speed i can get w/o artifacts? So my question; does the higher voltage reduce my battery that much?

Thanks!

PS. I haven't found a general thread for overclocking so I decided to post a new thread
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post #2 of 3
11/12/06 at 2:21am
I'm overclocked to 600/1600 and I just undocked to battery and with brightness turned all the way up, all power savings off, processor @ 2.0Ghz (no speedstep) and my battery reads 1:33. I dont have NHC installed yet as i just reformatted so I cannot give throttled down results yet, but I usually get in the 2 - 2.5 hour range depending on what I turn off.
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post #3 of 3
11/12/06 at 2:27am
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Great result actually; so you can get about 2,5hrs with wifi enabled? Just doing some browsing/word etc.. At brightness 3-4/7 (bios setting)? If that's true i'll overclock right away.. You really don't notice it, that it is oc'ed in battery time?

Nice Thanks for your reply!

The maximum i can get w/o overvolting is 480/600(1200). This is a 3DMark05 score of about 7000, i guess (3dmark05 is running atm)
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