Overclocked 9860 3dmark03 scores - Page 2

wow nice score

how hot do your laptops get when oc'ed?
thought the sager clones where getting pretty hot in stock config already.

Mine does not get hot at all... The cpu cooling system in the 9860 is completely effective. I have no doubt that it will take care of any future processor as well. I run full time at just over 4ghz, at first I did not, I just figured 3.8 was fine, then I ran so many tests to find out more about the machine, it's capabilities and video card vs cpu overclocking, that I finally just left it at 4ghz. This is the 3.8 prescott cpu and there is no difference in cpu temp running at 4ghz vs 3.8. Honestly, this makes good sense to me too, sure it's 200mhz more, but there is no voltage increase and come on, lets be realistic here, all intel cpu's are famous for great overclocks, and this is because they are pretty high quality. So... While I do not want to start a huge overclock'ing parade and run the risk of some super rare occurance happening and someone's machine stop working, I see absolutely nothing wrong with finding your machines sweet spot and leaving it there.
I just took a break from Eq2 (extremely intensive on any machine) to type this and browse some forums, and hitting mobile meter shows a lowly 47deg C. I have seen it at like 53deg C during gaming before, but this is VERY good for a laptop. I have had a crapload of laptops dating back to passive matrix screens and simple pentium 90s, and I must say, this is the most promising laptop yet! I like the look of the new Dell xps2, but I'll bet a pile of money, what you order is what your stuck with. With this 9860, there is a lot of room for improvement in the video card slot. The heatsink does not even take up 100% of this area underneath. You could theoretically make a large heatsink with a large single or dual small fan to remove a lot more heat. Would just require a simple reworking and a new bottom panel to allow more air to be sucked up. I would love to see an aftermarket heatsink/fan/cover to replace the "workable" one that comes installed. Think of an overclocked 6800ultra with an all copper largish quiet fan and new cover installed in an overclocked 6xx series extreme edition, it would be a wet dream! I thought about making my own, but it would take some time to mill out all the crap to fit and bolt on properly. Maybe I will start working on one sometime here and have it ready for the new line of video cards... Hopefully ATI will come out with a mobile R520..

just heard a lot of rumors that these clevos get very hot and thought overclocking would hardly be possible... is this not true?

Correct, it isn't true, a lot of people have made way too much fuss about how hot the 9860 supposedly gets, most of these people don't even own one or have never owned a high performance laptop before.

Do they get hotter than a mid-range Sony Vaio - off course they do, do they offer 2-4 times the performance overall - you betcha! The 9860 does not get nearly as hot as you'd expect, it has a very sophisticated, quiet and efficient cooling system for all of the components, obviously though it does help to have additional air-flow underneath the notebook (which is why I use a Lapramp to prop up the back of the notebook by about 2.5 inches), this enables me to achieve very stable extreme overclocks.

Some people have also lauded the use of devices like Lapcool to provide additional fans and airflow to the underside of the 9860, in my experience though, just propping it up significantly improves the performance of the already superb cooling system built into the 9860 (a poorly configured/positioned Lapcool device may actually impede cooling rather than improve it).

Don't forget that the 9860 employs a sophisticated thermal design for it's proprietary components (like the video card), people shouldn't assume that it draws the exact same wattage or produces the same amount of heat as a comparable desktop device - it doesn't, it comes close (sucking a massive 180W through it's mobile power adapter) but it's not a desktop - it's still more efficient than most desktops.

I've hit 10050 now, but I think I can reach higher, cos atm it crashes on me. Specs in my sign.

thanks for information on this andrepeterhill.
i tried to ask similar questions in the aw forum... but never got an answer

10330 @376/1070 Go me

Good score James, you can probably go higher.

Coolbits says its unsafe if I try at a higher core/memory speed.

It's your choice and I don't want to encourage you to do anything that's dangerous to your system, but my experience with the Go 6800 DDR2 card was that Coolbits recommended I not go higher than a 295MHz core clock (default is 250MHz) whereas I've been running at a constant 346-361MHz for months with absolute stability even during gaming sessions as long as 14 hours straight. Your Go 6800 DDR3 card runs cooler due to the DDR3 memory and should be able to run at even higher clock speeds quite stabily, others have clocked the core of the DDR3 card as high as 396Mhz.