CmdrEvil Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 Hi, After almost 5 years of quite heavy use my Radeon 7970m died. Therefore I'm stuck with Intel HD 4000 for the time being which is a real pain. I have done my research, checked all pros and cons, and decided to go ahead and get myself GTX 765m, as it seems to offer the best bang for your buck since you can get new cards off ebay for under 100$. My question is, did any of you have some negative feedback when it comes to above card? I would be happy enough if it lasted as long as my last card. Ps. I know this is not the most exciting topic ever and all, but I'm quite desperate to get full access so I can get my hands on unlocked bios for my m17xr4 in case I got stucked while installing this new hardware. Thanks in advance for your answers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naightmehr Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 (edited) Where do you want to use the 765m for? It has half of the performance of the HD7970m, so if you're just using it for applications, sticking with the Intel HD graphics would be better. Since the 765 is not officially supported by DELL it might require you to mod the nvidia drivers, more about that here: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=377158 and https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/4055-guide-modding-nvidia-oem-inf-files/ You don't need the unlocked BIOS. Edited June 10, 2017 by naightmehr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bios Modder Klem Posted June 10, 2017 Bios Modder Share Posted June 10, 2017 1 hour ago, naightmehr said: Since the 765 is not officially supported by DELL it might require you to mod the nvidia drivers It's not true. Dell officially supported GTX 765M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naightmehr Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 23 hours ago, Klem said: It's not true. Dell officially supported GTX 765M. Oh, I was misinformed then, my bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CmdrEvil Posted June 25, 2017 Author Share Posted June 25, 2017 Hey again, I would like to inform you all that I have managed to get aforementioned GTX 765M up and running. It was a lot easier than I thought, the system booted no problem with original A12 bios in Enduro mode enabled. I have disabled it afterwards for obvious reasons, then had to modify inf. file to install the nvidia driver. Now coming to actual performance - it's not too bad if I'm to be perfectly honest. In Firestrike with 7970m I was getting about 4700 and 5000 with OC. With 765m I'm getting 2550 stock and 3350 OC which is not too shabby for a card that was 75$ brand new! Any of you played with overvolting this GTX? I think my m17x should have plenty of headroom to keep it cool, who knows maybe with high voltage I could get it closer to 4000 in FS? Thanks for your replies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AleksR17x Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 The nice things with many 765 chips is their OC potential compared to 880 and 780s wich run pretty hot to begin with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CmdrEvil Posted July 22, 2017 Author Share Posted July 22, 2017 For some reason, whenever I try to use nvflash utility on prepared bootable usb stick I keep getting "this program cannot be run in dos" I'm not sure why this is happening, I have tried couple different versions of nvflash but I always get the same line, I've also tried changing files names so they are no longer than 8 letters, but that didn't make a difference. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AleksR17x Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 Had the exact same problem before i found out i had the Win version. Make sure you get nvflash 5.141 for Dos. Two files: CWSDPMI.exe (nvflash runs in protected mode) Nvflash.exe which should be 1.1mb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CmdrEvil Posted July 22, 2017 Author Share Posted July 22, 2017 Thanks for your message. I've downloaded the correct dos version. Now I get something different. When I type: "nvflash --list", here's what I get: Page fault cr2-10001800 at eip=3c5; flags=3a06 eax=00000300 ebx=00110021 ecx=00003c00 edx=bfeb00b7 esi=00000000 edi=00001800 ebp=00000912 esp=0000075a cs=87 ds=b7 es=af fs=0 gs=0 ss=8f error=0006 Any ideas? Also I'm not sure if this is related but when I launch GPU-Z I get this box each time saying "Query_External_2532504.exe has stopped working" after which I close the program opens normally and correctly displays my hardware info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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