AviatorX Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 so my 675m died and i bought a 680m pulled from another clevo off of ebay. i have a few ?s 1st) do i have to flash the vbios when i get it because i read u had to flash it when u install it.2nd) i dont have enough time in windows to uninstall the 675m drivers so if i put the new card in will it allow me to uninstall the 675m drivers and install the 680m drivers without it wrecking my new card? thx for answering my ?sEDIT i have a np9150 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 The vBIOS should not be a problem on this system, only P-HM require certain revisions.Windows may complain and maybe crash because of the driver, but that's a minor issue.Try to boot the system with your current card to uninstall the driver, safe mode (Shift+F8 during boot) should work as it runs on iGPU... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepsecr Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 i recommend to do so:1. Unplug ur faulty GTX675M2. Boot into the windows with ur GMA and fully uninstall ur driver3. Plug in ur new GC, and isntall driver(however i think it's not really necessary as NV should b smart enough to accept new nvidia display card) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 He can't uninstall the driver without dGPU as this system will do a thermal shutdown after a few seconds without sensor readings... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AviatorX Posted February 24, 2014 Author Share Posted February 24, 2014 My 675m had a part of it burn so I don't really want to reinstall it. So if I installed the 680m and went into safe mode could I uninstall the 675m drivers and install the 680m drivers without windows complaining? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 That should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepsecr Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 really? sorry maybe i don't know much about the lappy he used.The method i tried works with the Clevo unit i had on hand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AviatorX Posted February 26, 2014 Author Share Posted February 26, 2014 Thanks guys for your help. I got the 680m installed and everything went smoothly. I replaced the stock thermal pads with some fujipoly ones i bought from frozencpu. Im gna be watching the temps when i game , just to be sure i applied the thermal pads and paste the right way. I dont want to have this expensive card turn into an overpriced paper weight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWNinja Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 The GTX680M was a hell of an upgrade for me. In your case I think (once you become more comfortable with the Overclocking aspect) you can use the MSI vBios' without a hitch. For the P170HM users (like myself) We're limited to the 80.00.03.29 bios from svl7 or stock flash from our reseller. I recently acquired one from Eurocom and so far so good. Stock clocks SUCK but temps are amazing. ~55 degrees in Guild Wars 2 with the mild OC of +135/+450 in MSI Afterburner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFK Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Is there any way to underclock these cards. I will temporarily run this with a 75w heatsink so I was wondering if I can do anything about it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWNinja Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 You can underclock it to a limited degree using nvinspector. run the program and click the bottom right button for clocks. in there you can underclock it by I think 135mhz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P370SM3 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 The GTX680M was a hell of an upgrade for me. In your case I think (once you become more comfortable with the Overclocking aspect) you can use the MSI vBios' without a hitch. For the P170HM users (like myself) We're limited to the 80.00.03.29 bios from svl7 or stock flash from our reseller. I recently acquired one from Eurocom and so far so good. Stock clocks SUCK but temps are amazing. ~55 degrees in Guild Wars 2 with the mild OC of +135/+450 in MSI Afterburner2c : nvidia inspector is all you really need for under clocking or overclocking, Just use stock Vbios and create a couple of shortcuts on the desktop to your preferred GPU settings. MSI Afterburner is all you need for monitoring Temps and clocks and anything else you would want to monitor.That's my 2c...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hybridfive Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Nvidia Inspector or MSI Afterburner, would solve the underclocking question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acrensis Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Should you oc with nvidia inspector or with msi ab? Reason I ask is msi ab won't oc my gpu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWNinja Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Should you oc with nvidia inspector or with msi ab? Reason I ask is msi ab won't oc my gpu.Odd. MSI AB worked for me, but it's an artificial clock of only +135 core. You can use NVInspector to OC, but ensure you don't have them both vying for the control over the clock rate. I've used them both, and so far I enjoy both. If you want to go above the 135+ on the core, you'll need a flashed vbios. If it's a Clevo GTX card, you need to find the Kepler Vbios mods and download the 80.0.29.0.0.1 OC edition for Clevo cards. The MSI ones work as well, and I've used a couple...but the MSI vBios still has some glitches with the Clevo boards.If you really don't care too much to overclock, I've also noticed that the MSI GTX 680M vbios has a stock clock rate of 771MHz over the Clevo rated @ 719MHz. Power consumption is a bit greater since it runs at about 1.020 volts over the .987v @ full load. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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