help OC a laptop

[b0ngLord]

Hi guys , I actually don't need help to OC but I need some advice.

I have an Acer Aspire 5741G since June 2011 but i haven't used it as much as i do now because i'm away from home where is my desktop PC, I never had any problems with it , but lately I needed to increase it's performance.

I mainly play wow on the lowest settings.

Ok these are the max temps on default settings.

GPU: 61 max CPU: 77 max

This laptop has a geforce GT 320m

You can see the default settings and OC settings that i've done.

I've run many tests in 3dmark06 and it's stable , i even played wow so everything is nice and smooth , i got like 5-10 more fps so it's really nice.

The temperatures are kinda the same as when it was on default settings , GPU: 67 , let's say maybe a max 70 after hours of playing. Keep in mind that i have a cooling pad so that helps a lot. I think these temps for a laptop are pretty nice.

My question is , i maxed the core clock from 500 to a max of 650mhz , the memory clock from 790 to 950mhz, will this harm my GPU or my laptop in any way? Temperature wise it's almost the same.

Should i leave these OC settings like this if everything is stable and ok temperature wise?

 

[Rroff]

Can you afford to replace it?

That said I've run a couple of laptop GPUs with considerable overclocks for quite awhile with no problems so far (one of them being the 675 in my sig).

 

[Stuen4y]

My question is , i maxed the core clock from 500 to a max of 650mhz , the memory clock from 790 to 950mhz, will this harm my GPU or my laptop in any way? Temperature wise it's almost the same.

Should i leave these OC settings like this if everything is stable and ok temperature wise?

The simple answer is no, considering you even haven't raised the voltages. Keep it cool enough and you will have no trouble. You can open the laptop or hunt for pictures of the motherboard and see if the memory has any cooling. It has no thermal sensors and if it does not have any cooling I would suggest you to back down a bit the memory frequencies, just to be safe as they might overheat and degrade faster with time. You did not do anything major OC wise so it might be ok even like that.

 

[b0ngLord]

Ok , so I lowered the memory clock from 950 to 900 just to be safe , 950 seemed a bit too high from 790 , like I said , the temperatures are quite low for the OC settings that i made and it's not much difference between the default temps and OC temps , like 5-6 degrees C , from GPU 61 max to a 67 max.

Here are my exact temps of the laptop , so if anyone is having suspicions about these temps , pls tell me.

Browsing the internet , watching streams , youtube vids. GPU 45-50 and CPU: 45-50- with a 55 max
Playing WoW and with a stream in the background on high quality: GPU 65 CPU 71 with a 77 max

thx for the answers , i'll leave the settings like this then, coreclock 650 and memory clock at 900.

I have one more question that is not related to the OC and it has nothing to do with it.

Since the last update gpu driver , i keep getting display driver error , the laptop freezes and the image goes black and after that it restarts. I read on some forums that it might be the version driver , it's bugged or something like that so i downgraded to the previous driver , still the same problem and now as a last hope i downgraded to the version 314.22 which i read from forums that is a stable version , i'm still testing it and hope that i won't get the display driver error again.

Btw this has nothing to do with the OC because i got this error before i did the OC and i even formated the laptop.

So if anyone knows a fix to this problem or some advice it would be helpful . ty