How to determine how much I need to adjust my voltage when overclocking?

UbuntuFTW · 05-15-2012, 05:45 PM

I have a geforce 540M 2 gb vram and I use msi afterburner to overclock it to the max settings. I read that it's a good idea to raise the voltage to the appropriate level to avoid any possible blue screen of deaths. How can I determine the correct voltage I should use?

ungh it seems my voltages are locked, is it bad if my card doesn't get enough voltage? I s there a way to unlock it?

pokeymans · 05-15-2012, 06:02 PM

You're doing a software OC so you don't need to raise the voltage. Should you encounter any problems just turn the notch down a bit and don't mess with things you don't understand, it's not worth wrecking your card for a slight performance boost.

caveman26 · 05-15-2012, 06:34 PM

If its a laptop I would not oc to much as it will not have the ability to cool and will over heat

General Jameson · 05-15-2012, 06:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pokeymans

You're doing a software OC so you don't need to raise the voltage. Should you encounter any problems just turn the notch down a bit and don't mess with things you don't understand, it's not worth wrecking your card for a slight performance boost.

Everyone basically overclocks through software for their GPU, it would be a really long time consuming process to flash a card every time. Voltage increased are necessary sometimes to reach and make a high overclock stable. It is not recommended without proper cooling and done at the risk of frying the VRMs.

seseorang · 05-15-2012, 07:12 PM

It's a laptop model, it's the 540 and not anywhere near the desktop version of the 540. Not worth doing anything with in my personal opinion.

A-spase · 05-15-2012, 07:20 PM

all things wort doing if u now how to check result, like benchmark the thing.cause find road to do the same, its hard ar sometimes imposable .

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UbuntuFTW Join Date: Feb 2012 Reputation: 0 Posts: 303	How to determine how much I need to adjust my voltage when overclocking? I have a geforce 540M 2 gb vram and I use msi afterburner to overclock it to the max settings. I read that it's a good idea to raise the voltage to the appropriate level to avoid any possible blue screen of deaths. How can I determine the correct voltage I should use? ungh it seems my voltages are locked, is it bad if my card doesn't get enough voltage? I s there a way to unlock it?

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05-15-2012, 06:02 PM	#2
pokeymans Join Date: Mar 2010 Reputation: 4 Posts: 106	You're doing a software OC so you don't need to raise the voltage. Should you encounter any problems just turn the notch down a bit and don't mess with things you don't understand, it's not worth wrecking your card for a slight performance boost.

05-15-2012, 06:34 PM	#3
caveman26 Join Date: Apr 2009 Reputation: 1643 Posts: 4,142	If its a laptop I would not oc to much as it will not have the ability to cool and will over heat

05-15-2012, 07:12 PM	#5
seseorang Join Date: Feb 2010 Reputation: 683 Posts: 7,228	It's a laptop model, it's the 540 and not anywhere near the desktop version of the 540. Not worth doing anything with in my personal opinion.

05-15-2012, 07:20 PM	#6
A-spase Join Date: Oct 2011 Reputation: 15 Posts: 387	all things wort doing if u now how to check result, like benchmark the thing.cause find road to do the same, its hard ar sometimes imposable .