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post #361 of 542
11/21/09 at 10:26am
Thank you NWguru, your overclock tutorial works for me with FSB 1280 and coef X10 (FSB 1300 faile, blue screan). 3d mark06 can not go to the end of test.I am under windows 7 64.Are you any
solution?
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post #362 of 542
11/21/09 at 10:35am
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Which doesn't complete 3DMark06 the 1280 or 1300? Can you tell me exactly which test (as in which scene) it is failing on and how it fails (BSOD, freeze, driver crash, etc).

Also check your temps when testing. Make sure something isn't wrong there.
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post #363 of 542
11/21/09 at 10:44am
It was at 1280 with 3DMARK cpu test 1 or 2-It's failed and program crash and return to windows and my office.At 1300 i have got blue screan directly when windows loading.

EDIT : After test my temps was 52° max, i d'ont think it was the problem

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/3397/captureoffice.png
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post #364 of 542
11/21/09 at 11:08am
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I'm doing a respawn with my original hard drives right now and I will test again. when I was testing before I had minimal apps loaded because I was just testing the CPU OC. I'll see if it crashes on me.

One word of advice if you haven't already, reapply the thermal paste on your processor and 9400M. Plus check the state of the heatsink. My last heatsink was horrible. I took a picture of it and it's earlier in this thread. I had to sand it down to fix it.
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post #365 of 542
11/21/09 at 11:29am
No i have not reapply the thermal paste and heatsink and i a little afraid to do that but if i have to, i do...
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post #366 of 542
11/21/09 at 11:33am
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Dell really uses crappy thermal material. It's more like plastic than anything else. I use OCZ freeze and seems to drop my temps by at least 5C. It is a step to do to get the most out of the system so it's up to you on how far you want to take it.
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post #367 of 542
11/21/09 at 12:05pm
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Let me list what is not stock with my system.

1. I'm using the Kingston HyperX 1333 CAS7 memory.
2. I'm using the Windows Bluetooth software instead of what Dell provides. My mouse seems to only work with the Windows software.
3. I have reapplied thermal paste to my CPU and 9400M. I haven't even touched my ATI cards yet.
4. I made the registry change as described in the original post and set my FSB and memory to 1280.
5. Plus my system is sitting on top of a Cryo cooler.

I attached the results of 3DMark06. The proc is the original proc that came with the system.
LL
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post #368 of 542
11/21/09 at 12:21pm
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Here's the results @1300

With some OS tweaks it will hit 17.5-17.7
LL
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post #369 of 542
11/21/09 at 2:00pm
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OK Major, since I have 2 systems here I was able to do more testing and I was able to duplicate the issue. The Kingston memory in combination with my Cryo cooler is keeping it stable.
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post #370 of 542
11/21/09 at 8:02pm
Ok NWGuru thanks for your support, give you some bench for my system with GPU stock
http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/2770/capturei.png

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/6628/capture29.png

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/9194/capture302.png

Whith your tuto It s the the first time i go to 3.2ghz and it is great but i can not play 3DMark06 in the end , i want to see 16000 whith my laptop...
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post #371 of 542
11/21/09 at 8:10pm
forgive me for my poor english and i thank you so much for your support...
Try to do 3Dmark bench I can do it, go
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post #372 of 542
11/21/09 at 8:27pm
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Do you have a notebook cooler?
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post #373 of 542
11/21/09 at 8:59pm
no i dont have.
here my last bench
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/721...re312final.png
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post #374 of 542
11/21/09 at 9:24pm
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When benchmarking and over-clocking, cooling is everything.
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post #375 of 542
11/21/09 at 9:27pm
ok keep going to buy a cryo lx lx
Thanks for your support $$$$$

EDIT : It 's for you Mandrake thanks a lot http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/9237/capture312.png

The last one http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/9642/capturefast.png
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post #376 of 542
11/22/09 at 1:53pm
@major81 - you can use the attach function within the post to upload the pics direct into it. An alternative to linking to the pics.

cheers ...
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post #377 of 542
11/23/09 at 7:46am
Golly gosh party started without me ....


Mandrake ..... the other 4850's have officially been unlocked and are hitting 18k in 3dmark and 11.5k in vantage
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post #378 of 542
11/23/09 at 9:49am
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Do you have a link? I saw someone with a W90 hit 18K already. They were still a couple hundred points away from me plus I never saw what res it was done at.

Edit: BTW, I hope you read every post and caught up.
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post #379 of 542
11/23/09 at 3:06pm
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I think it's time to sell my extra proc. Done testing processors for now. I'll take some pics and put it in the marketplace.
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post #380 of 542
11/23/09 at 7:18pm
your p8600?

also it would be the other sites owners lounge ....some one rewrte their bios and now it works correctly

i have not read everything just yet but i will very soon
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