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Rivatuner Safe?

Gypsy_of_Paradox

By Gypsy_of_Paradox,
Posted on: 2011-01-17 17:26 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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My laptop is running a Geforce 9800m GS and while I can run Ultra fine on low specs. I want to be able to play the game on slightly higher settings. Did some searching and found this program, I want to know others opinions on this program. I found conflicting info on its affects on my card. Thanks in advance.

 

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Originally Posted by Gypsy_of_Paradox View Post
My laptop is running a Geforce 9800m GS and while I can run Ultra fine on low specs. I want to be able to play the game on slightly higher settings. Did some searching and found this program, I want to know others opinions on this program. I found conflicting info on its affects on my card. Thanks in advance.
I'd highly suggest you look up the terms:
  • Nvidia
  • Overheating
  • Class-action
  • Lawsuit
  • Bumpgate
  • Geforce
  • EXPLODING
  • LAPTOPS
Nvidia is, to use the colloquialism, in deep-doo-doo with ODM's, OEM's, and consumers over a string of exploding laptops due to Nvidia lying about the actual thermal properties of their chips.

And you want to overclock a chipset known to be in exploding laptops.

... That's not a smart idea.

 

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Originally Posted by je_saist View Post
I'd highly suggest you look up the terms:
  • Nvidia
  • Overheating
  • Class-action
  • Lawsuit
  • Bumpgate
  • Geforce
  • EXPLODING
  • LAPTOPS
Nvidia is, to use the colloquialism, in deep-doo-doo with ODM's, OEM's, and consumers over a string of exploding laptops due to Nvidia lying about the actual thermal properties of their chips.

And you want to overclock a chipset known to be in exploding laptops.

... That's not a smart idea.
Nothing showed my card exploding anywhere, do you have links? I might add I have a g50vt-x1 which has a heatsink. It looks like those laptops with nvidia cards that are exploding do not have a heatsink.

Also I did not overclock my gpu yet, I came here first to see what people had to say. Wouldn't that be the smart idea, instead of blindly making changes?

 

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To answer the specific question about RivaTuner, I'd say that the program is safe and trustworthy.. but only as long as you know what you are doing.

Personally, I am not sure I'd try to overclock anything in a laptop though, just for the simple fact that I wouldn't be able to efficiently upgrade the cooling to compensate for the changes like I could in my desktop PC. Some laptops don't even handle heat well at all at the regular levels, let alone overclocking. Even if yours has a heatsink, it's most likely designed to handle only the load of it's default settings. If you overclock it, it might not be adequate.

Maybe I'm just being too cautious, but you asked for opinions. I'd leave it alone in this case... especially since you are already finding "conflicting info on its affects" on your card. Better to be safe than sorry.