An overclockable... DELL?!

[Geeky1]

Ok, so in the interest of putting off my anthro essay a little bit longer, I just ran ATi Tool on my Inspiron XPS.

The thing has a 9800m (crippled x800 Pro) in it with a stock clock of 350/300 (GPU/RAM). ATi Tool got it up to 456/441 before it started getting errors. So figure back off each one 6MHz for stability... that's 450/435. From 350/300. That's a ~29% overclock on the GPU and 45% on the RAM. What's the last <strike>video card</strike> laptop video card you've seen with memory that clocks 50% past its stock speed? :eek:

Now to run some benchmarks...

...right after I finish that essay. :Pwned:

[RWB]

And my MSI Radeon 9800 Pro w/ XT Core doesn't even want to run 410/378 :(

Why does God hate me? I have tons of fans in my system, I have a superb PSU, I have one of those side intake fans that blows directly onto the AGP/PCI area too..

[Geeky1]

Probably because your 9800 Pro is based on a 9800XT, and my 9800 is based on an X800 Pro. :p

[GrayFox]

my notebook has a rage 128 mobile it wont clock more then 5mhz without artifacting :rolleyes:

[Straight_Man]

XPS, both Dimension and Inspiron, are intended for gamers or intense graphic dev. XPS stands for eXtreme Power System (per Dell, I asked one of the Direct Solution Provider Account Execs to find out officially what it stood for and that was the reply). So, yeah, they should be OCable to a degree at least. But that amount is SWEET!!! Expect, of the Dells, only the XPSs to do that right now.

[Geeky1]

Benches:
http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22424

Ageek: You may be right, but I think it has more to do with the fact that the 9800m is a crippled x800 pro than anything else. That explains why the GPU clocks as high as it does... the RAM is just incredible tho. Unless the X800 won't run with regular DDR, in which case that would probably explain it (since the slowest DDR2 is like 400MHz anyhow afaik)