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Overclocking GTx 660m not happening

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xander89

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Ok lads and ladies

i bought an MSI GE 60 recently because it was a killer deal (usually around the 800 mark and i got it for 630).

One of the appeals of the laptop was that the gtx 660m was a pretty nice overclocker. A lot of people saying they have got near the 1000mhz mark ( usually its at 835mhz boost on the core, i think). It is sitting pretty cool when on the cooling pad i have for it and has a lot more headroom on stock.

Currently I cant seem to make the core boost budge with either MSI afterburner or EVGA precision. I can change the memory clock though, which to me is rather odd. I slap 135+ mhz on the core and say + 200 mhz on the memory and the core just wont budge when ingame but the memory will. Not only that it sometimes refuses to boost at all ( locked on 400mhz core and 800 mhz mem) in games when i attempt to OC it.

I cant seem to see a power target in either of the programs like when i OC my 780 and voltage control is ofc not available. I might just be missing a trick here,any ideas? :shrug:
 
sometimes chips just dont oc very well...it happens to everyone my first fx8350 only got too 4.4 before getting unstable and i actually had a 780 burn up at +200. not everyone gets a great overclocking chip...it happens
 
sometimes chips just dont oc very well...it happens to everyone my first fx8350 only got too 4.4 before getting unstable and i actually had a 780 burn up at +200. not everyone gets a great overclocking chip...it happens


the gtx 660m is a gpu and isnt OCing at all the core wont move but the memory will. it isnt about it being a bad ocer because the core clockw ont move at all. I did figure out it was due to the factory shipped driver version sometimes stops you from ocing properly. Switched up the drivers, and bang it worked,.
 
The guessing is painful... :p

To add to that, perhaps with a bit more relevance, LOL, Any laptop gpu I have overclocked I have done it through the bios...that said, they were integrated so that not be helpful.
 
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