Nvidia power usage.

guitarman · Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 4:50 am Post subject: Nvidia power usage.

Just wondering if there's any settings for the mobile nvidia card like in windows where you can select a mode for longer battery life or for better performance. I saw the ati driver had tan option like 'Option "DynamicClocks"' so figurd nvidia might have something similar.

chrismortimore · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 3:35 pm Post subject:

You can use nvclock to change the frequencies of the chipset. For my FX 5200Go, I need to use nvclock-0.8b and the "--force" switch. I can't say I've noticed much difference in battery life though.
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guitarman · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 8:57 pm Post subject:

Tried nvclock but it doesnt seem to support mine at all. Attempting to change it even slighty causes lockups, and for soem reason it dectects it running as 8mhz...weird.

chrismortimore · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject:

What card are you using?
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guitarman · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 10:44 pm Post subject:

Im using an nvidia geforce go 7400 maybe it not supported yet.

chrismortimore · Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 8:45 am Post subject:

guitarman · Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject:

Yup

guitarman · Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject:

Here's the output from nvclock -i -f

chrismortimore · Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject:

My Geforce FX 5200 Go is supported. I guess its just cos yours is new...
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guitarman · Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:02 am Post subject:

Probably, maybe its the 7xxx series of the geforce go gpus not supported yet. not to big of a concern I guess since I hear it doesnt seem to save that much battery life anyways and temperature doesnt seem to be that much of an issue as this one seems to keep pretty cool. Just wondering though, since you can already underclock yours, have you ever tried overclocking with nvclock? I thought I saw somewhere that the geforce go cards were "locked" at a certain speed so was wondering if overclocking one of these is even possable.

chrismortimore · Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:32 am Post subject: