NVIDIA Disables GeForce GTX 900M Mobile GPU Overclocking with Driver Update

SaltyFish · Feb 15, 2015

HumanSmoke said:
Kind of makes you wonder how much spare time people have if they're devoting some time every day to vote in a poll that even the site administrator says holds no significance.

I question the lack of significance part. After all, we have this shining example. The fun part I don't dispute though. It's always amusing to see which side manged to do a better job rigging the results, especially for a topic you didn't expect so many people so riled up over. Granted it's got NVIDIA on it and we're still fresh off the GTX 970 memory thing so the anti-NVIDIA (not the same thing as pro-AMD) camp is rallying to milk this. And likewise, the pro-NVIDIA (again, not the same thing as anti-AMD) camp is playing this whole thing down in a way they're not used to (laptops? who would've guessed?). See how fun this is?

Despite recent trends and all this, TPU probably isn't going down the gutter, so I'll likely go back to watching this thread with my bucket of popcorn.

Irish_PXzyan · Feb 15, 2015

I can't overclock my GTX 860m anymore

Pretty annoying really... I mean... on max load my GPU temps never go over 58c.
When I overclock the core clock to 325 and memory to 225 the temps only go up as far as 70-72c on max load.
It's perfectly safe! Does this truly mean that I will never be able to overclock again???? My laptop can handle this no problem so this is rather annoying :/

xfia · Feb 15, 2015

why cant you oc a 860m? its not a 900m..

Caring1 · Feb 15, 2015

Roll back the driver to a previous version, then you can overclock again.

Irish_PXzyan · Feb 15, 2015

Well overclocking on the 800m series also can no longer overclock just like the 900m series.

I will roll back for sure! but does this mean if I ever update my drivers, I won't be able to overclock again or is this gonna pass eventually?!

Mussels · Feb 15, 2015

Irish_PXzyan said:
Well overclocking on the 800m series also can no longer overclock just like the 900m series.

I will roll back for sure! but does this mean if I ever update my drivers, I won't be able to overclock again or is this gonna pass eventually?!

depends if Nvidia think its better to save on warranty returns from overclocking, or to avoid the bad press of disabling it.

Irish_PXzyan · Feb 15, 2015

Should this not be up to me to decide weather or not to overclock or not! But I suppose if a lot of people are overclocking and mess it up... I guess I understand.
But why do companies allow warranty to cover overclocking their laptops? I mean.. everyone knows that it's a risk! if you fry your lappy then that's your own damn fault and not the company right?!

I bought this laptop so I can overclock safely and now I can't update the drivers or there won't be overclocking! Fierce annoying

xfia · Feb 15, 2015

haha so they just x overclocking on all mobile gpu's I take it. maybe the title of the article should be changed.

ngreedia is really pushing it.. I hope they get rage from customers and manufactures.

Captain_Tom · Feb 15, 2015

xfia said:
haha so they just x overclocking on all mobile gpu's I take it. maybe the title of the article should be changed.

ngreedia is really pushing it.. I hope they get rage from customers and manufactures.

It's just Maxwell GPU's. My 765m overclocks just fine.

Mr. Fox · Feb 17, 2015

The anti-laptop-overclocking trolls are simply misinformed and out of touch with technology, or they wasted money on a cheap machine that wasn't engineered to be awesome and have no valid frame of reference to draw from.

In the spirit of sarcasm, here is another great example of why "notebooks should never be overclocked" LOL. In these runs my 980M cards temps peaked at 70°C.

Fire Strike Extreme run... http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/5921625

And, a "regular" Fire Strike run...

C'mon NVIDIA... knock it off with the God act and give us back our property ownership rights. You do not own my computers, and I don't appreciate your false pretenses. You do NOT have a right to decide what is best for me or my laptop.

danwat1234 · Jun 20, 2015

What the heck nVidia!? Let us overclock our video cards! Can Nibitor be used to modify the BIOS of the 980m mobile GPU to modify clocks?

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NVIDIA Disables GeForce GTX 900M Mobile GPU Overclocking with Driver Update

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