GeForce FX Go5200

[juiceten]

Just got a 1711 in 3DMark03, up from a 1337 w/o overclocking. Using 66.32 for a driver, with modded INF of course. I clocked to 261/527 with no problems as of yet, but I don't really play games often (never).

I was wondering, is it O.K. to keep clocked this high? I know that overclocking add more stress/heat/wear & tear and all that, and there is always that risk. But does it make any difference if I am not pushing it to the limits by running games and such, the most CPU and graphic intensive stuff I do on a regular basis is Photoshop and video editing/encoding.

Thanx

[Guest cleber]

Not bad!

Read my post, I got up to 1700 points in 3DMark03, but your P4 is obviously much faster than my Centrino CPU (so one more person on my side, hope no one`s thinking of me lying, greetz to "remanence").

Guess there's no risk if you're laptop is running stable for a few ours without crashing, but I guess audio/video encoding and Photoshop stuff is more CPU intense than Gaming stuff, meaning: your graphics card is not fully stressed, so try keeping it that way.

But I have a questio: When you are gaming, is your fan also getting into a new even louder mode? Although my card doesn't crash, this is the only thing that worries me.

cleber

[fame]

why overclocking if u dont play games? photoshop dont need a good graphic card.. so why taking the risk to crush your graphic card if u dont have to?

[juiceten]

It is hard to tell if my fan is running louder because my fan runs LOUD as is. I'm not sure if you've ever seen the cooling system on a P-20 (or P-25, depending on the country), but I know I've never seen a larger one on a laptop. If you ever come across one in a store or something, check it out. Massive.

Anyway, it runs at three distinct volume levels, low, medium and high, if you will. I would say that it runs on the "high" or loud level more often now, but it could be all in my head as I never really paid attention to, or more so tried to block out the fan noise before.

As to why overclock if I don't game, I just want to get the most out of my system, the biggest bang for my buck. And after reading all the "sh**y" reviews of the GeForce FX Go5200, how "underclocked" Toshiba sets it (although they probably do have their reasons), I couldn't resist. That's why I'm wondering if the added risk is as high, or if it even warrants worry because I'm not stressing it to the extreme.

[Cleber]

Nice word.

I've never opened my laptop, so I guess haven't seen any fan yet. Seems that your modes are equal to mine, I stay constantly in the second one, from time to time it gets a bit louder.

Despite the graphics card which is now "middle section" you have a hell of a machine, it seems, with lots of space on the hard drive, so get yourself far cry, play it for a few hours, and you'll see, if overclocking is stable. It's definetely right to get EVERYTHING out of your system; you didn't pay a couple of bucks to get a game boy :)

By the way, try the 65.73, runs a bit better on my system.

cleber

(Try to find some article by adrian wong in the internet, I guess it's called "Maxxing out the fx 5200go" or something like that, as far as I remember, he has nearly the same results (the frequencies, I mean) as you have). Interesting article, though with a "sh**y" remarks about the 5200go as well :) )

Here, found it already for you:

http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?locat...&var1=76&var2=0 :P