Rivatuner with 9700m GT

[Revolver]

OK, so i was havng the heating issue and i discovered rivatuner. I installed it and used this "force constant performance" option, which somehow according to what HWMonitor was reading, stopped the GPU from sitting at 85+ and lowered it down to 50degrees.

The thing is it gives you some slider bars to tweak the core and memory speeds (there is another bar possibly shader speed but i just ticked the match speeds button so it slides with the core frequency). These bars though, the core speed on goes up to 600mhz and the memory to 500mhz (not sure on memory, its summit like that i cant remember till i get home).

Then i looked at http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeF ... 454.0.html and saw:

Manufacturer NVIDIA
Series GeForce 9M
Codename NB9E-GE
Pipelines 32 - unified
Core Speed * 625 MHz
Shader Speed * 1550 MHz
Memory Speed * 800 MHz

So, what the fuck? Am i actually underclocking it when i put the sliders to max?

Performance still isnt bad, get 100FPS in CS on high with AA. But the fact the GPU is staying a lot cooler now just makes me wonder.

[skeletor]

The specified clock rates are only guidelines for the manufacturer and can be altered by them.

Up to the manufacturer. If they think it may overheat they will ship it underclocked.

[Revolver]

I thought it was with the drivers as well though? And the fact that the maximum rivatuner will let me go to is 600, if 625 is guideline surely there must be leverage to go a little bit up and down?

[skeletor]

Not down to the drivers, it is down to the BIOS on the graphics card itself.