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post #81 of 115
9/6/08 at 3:30pm
Are you sure your overclock didn't trigger an event? It sounds as if you may have pushed it too far and the card throttled down to Low-3D settings. Make sure you are using the right clocks with rivatuner or another program. Now if you are sure your card was running in 3D mode then you can just ignore this.
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post #82 of 115
9/7/08 at 12:27pm
That could be it, I don't know. Thing is, after using Diskeeper, frames shot up to 40 in the same area. Funny since I used both the basic Vista defrag and Auslogics defrag numerous times before hand and they only helped a little. You could be right though because my clocks reverted to stock after rebooting and the card may have corrected itself.

I still have the same problem though in towns and stuff and no amount of overclocking will work. I think my videocard is doing all it can possibly do. I believe the problem is my processor. Vista simply requires more resources and playing an older game not optimized for it will result in more CPU usage. The biggest reason I came to that conclusion is an article I read on some site. They tested the core 2 duo against the core duo and testing them with visual settings set to max in several games they said that their average videocard was preventing the games from achieving higher frames. Couldn't the opposite be true here? Could the weaker processor simply be holding my graphics card back?
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post #83 of 115
9/9/08 at 12:54pm
Hey thanks for all those tips. I am a 9400 owner. Can you please tell me am I able to upgrade my hard drive beyond 100gb? I hear so many different opinions I don't know who to believe.

Thanks
Mark
theilluminator@gmail.com
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post #84 of 115
9/9/08 at 5:29pm
Yes, you can.
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post #85 of 115
9/10/08 at 12:38am
zzpulp,

Is there anything special i have to do or do i just install a 500 gb hard drive? any tweaks i need to perform? am i able to go to unlimited hard drive space>? thanks, mark
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post #86 of 115
9/17/08 at 10:32am
Thread Starter 
I can't even find a 500GB notebook HDD. But if you've managed to find one, and it's the same form factor and interface, you just slap it right in.
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post #87 of 115
11/5/08 at 6:47pm
Very informative thread. I have a couple of questions as I am looking to upgrade my E1705, though it's well out of warranty.

How much of an improvement I'd see in encoding/decoding H.264 if I replace my T2300 @1.66GHz with T7200 or T7400 ? Do I need to worry about any extra heat? I think they are all within the same heat envelope (34W).

I don't really use my laptop for encoding these days as I have a quad core desktop, but I can find these T7x00s on Ebay for < $150 and getting tempted. Can these processors play newer Blu-Ray titles with 40+Mbps? That could be a good use. My T2300 stutters for any 1080p content even @8-10Mbps.

Thanks.
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post #88 of 115
12/12/08 at 10:27pm
I'm sorry....I don't really know the answers of those questions off the top of my head. I imagine the T7200 would be a very noticeable upgrade with respect to encoding time. Just look in my signature to see an example encoding time for Barbershop. Anyway, I forgot to say I was actually cleaning up my sig getting ready to move to the 8 series so just refer to my next post under "Mini Comparison" if you want to see that example encoding time. I will soon add a M6300 comparison to that same list.
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post #89 of 115
12/12/08 at 10:28pm
zzpulp old signature ID 65536
6 and 7 series interesting facts:
6800 Series

Few Driver Fixes

Bootable recovery

Nvidia Delta Clock

Mini Bench

Dell Rom's

GPU Lock

9300 to XPS2 hacked BIOS


Edit: Add link
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post #90 of 115
12/18/08 at 3:06am
Reading thread > me
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post #91 of 115
12/24/08 at 5:14pm
I'll visit this sticky more than once
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post #92 of 115
12/29/08 at 10:50pm
I've seen some magic OC for nVidia Go 7900GS and yet the maximum i could get on my card with ATITool 0.26 (used it for finding artifacts, which are yellow pixels, by the way?) and RivaTuner v2.22 (for overclocking) were 443/555. If i remember correctly, if I raise core frequency above 465 Windows freezes.
I do not game and I'm a complete noob in overclocking, but I would still love to know how I can OC my card properly. For the heck of it

Info:
Dual-pipe heatsink mod.
BIOS version: 5.71.22.28.01
In device manager it says: PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0298&SUBSYS019B1028&REV_A1
Driver I'm using is 175.32 (from nvidia.com website) on WinXP Pro SP3 32-bit.
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post #93 of 115
3/23/09 at 11:48am
Well I think its about time this thread got an update and since Turbo went to the AW darkside (who turned out to be our brother and not our father ) I guess I will try to get to updating this thread (and make good on some other obligations).
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post #94 of 115
3/24/09 at 2:36pm
Thread Starter 
I'm still around, but my E1705 took a shit on me. That 7950GTX I had overclocked to the gills finally gave up it's ghost. When I went on Ebay to buy another, they still want $450 for them. So I said screw it.

BTW, don't pay any attention to ATI Tool's little yellow artifacts. OC the card and then boot up whatever game you're currently playing. If you see artifacts or other weird shit while IN GAME, then lower the OC. Remember to always use a real-world application to test your OC.
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post #95 of 115
3/24/09 at 2:46pm
unfortunately there seems to be a very high failure rate with the 79xx cards, and a known defect in the GPU, but of course Dells not going to do anything
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post #96 of 115
3/24/09 at 11:56pm
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Originally Posted by dave-p View Post
unfortunately there seems to be a very high failure rate with the 79xx cards, and a known defect in the GPU, but of cuorse Dells not going to do anything

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post #97 of 115
4/2/09 at 8:05am
allright buds,

Anyone know where I can buy a 512mb ddr3 nvidia geforce go 7950 gtx for my xpx m1710? Can't seem to find them anywhere.

Cheers
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post #98 of 115
4/2/09 at 9:25am
eBay... Thats pretty much it! They are expensive too!
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post #99 of 115
4/2/09 at 11:08am
IMO get a x 1400 and sell the laptop, With the lack of GPUs and the high price of the used ones out there, spells end of line for this laptop

Or get the integrated GPU motherboard and sell the laptop

It's sad, the E1705/9400 was a awesome laptop - while under warranty anyways.
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post #100 of 115
4/2/09 at 11:53am
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Originally Posted by dave-p View Post
IMO get a x 1400 and sell the laptop, With the lack of GPUs and the high price of the used ones out there, spells end of line for this laptop

Or get the integrated GPU motherboard and sell the laptop

It's sad, the E1705/9400 was a awesome laptop - while under warranty anyways.

I just managed to get out from under mine and three dead GPU's. Well said Dave! Awesome laptop, not worth it though.
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