unable to overclock 940mx?

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edward_elric64

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Hi guys, I have an interesting little problem right now that I can't seem to figure out. When I first got my laptop I had been able to overclock my 940MX with no problems, I'd give it a slight 30Mhz boost just to smooth out frames and give a little better performance. But I just reinstalled windows yesterday to fix a corrupt update that left my games causing my computer to black screen, and when I installed nTune again every time I try loading the nvidia control panel and load up the device settings tab, I'm unable to change anything with it now. I've tried to reload the control panel with it giving me the options back, but whenever I try to boost it it gives me a warning saying these settings are invalid and will not be applied, even though I'm only trying to boost it by 10Mhz each time.
 
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Roland Of Gilead
You could try rolling back to a previous driver, and using something like MSI afterburner.

With that said, there is practically no point in trying OC that GPU. For a number of reasons. Firstly it's not designed to go much beyond thermal specs, and being in a laptop really doesn't allow thermal headroom. Secondly, the increase in performance would be almost minimal. That level GPU, within thermal specs will yield, 'maybe' 1-2 fps difference.

Having been OC it already, it could be starting to fail, after all it's a soldered piece of silicon and you have pushing it beyond spec. You can try the driver rollback/MSI Afterburner. Other than that there is little you can do. You could also try the Display Driver from manufacturer website...
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You could try rolling back to a previous driver, and using something like MSI afterburner.

With that said, there is practically no point in trying OC that GPU. For a number of reasons. Firstly it's not designed to go much beyond thermal specs, and being in a laptop really doesn't allow thermal headroom. Secondly, the increase in performance would be almost minimal. That level GPU, within thermal specs will yield, 'maybe' 1-2 fps difference.

Having been OC it already, it could be starting to fail, after all it's a soldered piece of silicon and you have pushing it beyond spec. You can try the driver rollback/MSI Afterburner. Other than that there is little you can do. You could also try the Display Driver from manufacturer website rather than an Nvidia one.

You've voided any warranty (if there still was one) by OC'ing the GPU. So getting it fixed under warranty probably isn't an option.
 
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