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Geek Squad Manuals

geeknoobsIf you’ve ever wondered just what costs $200/h when you hire Geek Squad, find out. These 11 manuals, which you should learn for yourself, are a source of Geek Squad expertise.

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Overclocking laptop, Mobility Radeon

Studio 15 laptopNot only unsupported, Mobility Radeons are further crippled by their drivers. Laptop distributors (HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc) limit the clocks on the bundled video cards and restrict access to the GPU BIOS. There are a number of logical reasons behind this, namely warranty overheating issues.

There are a number of ways to work around these restrictions, the best likely being a BIOS mod, as it would allow fluent clock changing through ATT, or other programs. However, some GPUs have their BIOS read and write protected, making the process rather futile.

Another, simpler, method is using a specific driver version. 8.9 and 8.10 Catalysts allow you to overclock when used in conjunction with AMD GPU Clock Tool.

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Ati Tray Tools with Win7 64bit

Mobility Radeon As stated earlier, Windows 7 requires digitally signed drivers. This is a bummer if you want to run an awesome application like ATT rather than crappy CCC. The fix, as you may have guessed, relies on DSEO. Download it, run it, agree to prompts, enable TEST MODE, and reboot.

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