Hi guys,

Recently I decided to carefully try overclocking my laptop's GPU. I started looking for some on-line help and found a goop forum post from someone who did the exact thing I was going to do, with basically the same laptop I have.

I have a Dell Inspiron 1720, 2gHz Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB RAM and an Nvidia GeForce 8600m GT.

The overclocking worked like a charm, I used RivaTuner to set core clock to 610 mHz, the shader clock is at 1220 mHz and the memory clock at 505 mHz.

Also, I used RivaTuner's NVstrap tool to let my Dell think it has an 8600 GTS instead of a mobile version of the card so that I can use regular forceware without needing a modded .inf file, or use the drivers Dell provides.

However, when I monitored the GPU performance with RivaTuner's built-in hardware monitor (mostly to see if the card wasn't getting too hot), I noticed the log file claims my "Core clock \ ROP Domain" stuck at 100 mHz. It didn't go a Hertz under or over, even when I was running Crysis.

Does anyone know if this is normal behaviour, or perhaps if the monitoring software isn't registring activity properly?

Kind regards,

David