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Did I overclocking 6800ultra without reflashing bios?

post #1 of 6
Thread Starter 
Hi,
I've been reading through this forum on overclocking the geforce go 6800 ultra and the most 'current' thread from 06 said that you still cannot overclock this card with rivatuner and that the only way to OC was to do the bios flash. I was wondering if its still required to reflash the bios. I am using xtreme-g 190.62 forceware drivers. I downloaded rivatuner and here are my results with 3dmark05.
core/ram = score gpu temp
570/1300 crash
550/1300= 6328 75*
540/1300= 6281 ??*
530/1300 = 6171 75* ????
530/1248 = 6136 73*
530/1200 = 6079 70*
450/1060= 5291

So am i properly overclocking the GPU? Or do i still need to flash the bios?

thanks
post #2 of 6
Looks fine to me. But if you can get a newer version of BIOS then go for it - never hurt. Ever heard about Coolbits?

cheers ...
post #3 of 6
Past drivers 129 I think, nvidia made overclocking standard again even on locked bioses.
post #4 of 6
Thread Starter 
How hot can the card go before it starts to downgrade performance?

Also My cdrom drive isnt working. How do i upgrade the bios using USB?

thanks
post #5 of 6
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How hot can the card go before it starts to downgrade performance?

Also My cdrom drive isnt working. How do i upgrade the bios using USB?

thanks
The major problem isn't downgrading performance, it's frying your GPU and / or memory. These cards already run extremely hot by default. Raise the temp too high then the attachment balls between the GPU and card can separate shorting your card. Some have had to resort to different hacks to save their cards like baking in an oven or under infrared lamps.

If that doesn't kill it, the GPU itself can short as the silicon wears out and the gates fail. There are hundreds of burned out Nvidia Go cards on the market precisely because of such abuse. Most on eBay now are refurbs / repairs from those units that failed in the field not from working pulls.

If you think I'm kidding do a search. You'll see hundreds of horror stories of failed nvidia laptop cards. So many in fact that there have been several attempted class action suits. Nvidia thus far has been successful fighting them of because they've been able to show most failures are self inflicted (do to overclocking).

In fact, a small cottage industry has arisen on eBay and elsewhere on the net by folks who charge $75-150 just repairing Nvidia laptop cards. The better more reputable places have high-tech machines to do the repairs. Unfortunately, others are just fly-by-night and just use lamps or bake them. So the quality of the repairs vary greatly.

Why have I gone through this long spiel? To inform you that unless you've got money to burn or plan on replacing your laptop soon anyway, it's not worth overclocking at all with these cards. The slight performance gained isn't worth killing your card. Get a newer machine with a faster GPU instead.

Learn from the others who've screwed up their rigs.

I hope this helps.

Ciao.
post #6 of 6
Worst case scenario you need to bake one day and then you just keep it downclocked forever till you get a new card / lappy. Never overclock long term an integrated vcard unless u dont care about the lappy.
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