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If you in LOL while using SteelSeries Siberia V2 on 7.1 sound you can hear the left and right surround sound , Eg ; if you in 5v5 map middle line you can heard your team mate jungling with weap/skills sound.(but you must stand on middle of turret to heard that sound) Also for Bad Company 2 , you will notice when enemy is coming , with their food step. But for Battlefield 3 , its not that good , because of the background sound it really to tell enemy are close to you. SteelSeries Siberia V2 Pink <object width="560" height="315"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp2Kah8MLy8?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp2Kah8MLy8?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>

I definately got a kick out of this thread. Agree with much of it too. If I were a mod over at NBR, I'd be a MOD that got banned. I'd be deleting posts left and right, and swinging my ban hammer like Sammy Sosa!.

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AMDs professional mobile GPUs (FirePro M Series) use the same hardware as their gaming equivalent (Mobility Radeon HD Series) The difference lies in the VBIOS and in the specialized driver. This allows to simply change a 6970m into a FirePro M8900 by simply flashing the appropriate VBIOS and installing the corresponding driver: (UPDATE: This also works with the 6990m, see the update at the end of the post) The advantage of the FirePro card lies in the better CAD and DCC performance, optimized OpenGL support, OpenCL features and AMD Eyefinity technology. In short: The card gets optimized for professional applications instead of games. A 6970m is very well capable of CAD work and a M8900 can still play games, but their performance is optimized for other tasks, and this can make quite a difference. A game uses a GPU differently than CAD software. For example you don't need a high frame rate when designing something with CAD software, but it's crucial that the rendering of your work is accurate and detailed. So if you have a 6970m and need to use professional software once in a while you might want to give this a try. I haven't installed any CAD software on my system at the moment, but the driver seems to work properly, haven't seen any issues so far.The procedure doesn't take long, you only need to flash the VBIOS, uninstall your gaming driver and install the professional one. You can use the M8900 driver of the Dell Precision M6600 workstation, you'll find it at the Dell drivers page. Maybe you find a more recent driver on the AMD homepage. Here are some screenshots of the Catalyst Pro Control Center, you'll probably notice some features which aren't available with the Radeon HD cards: I've done this with my Sapphire 6970m, it'll definitely work with the Dell 6970m as well and it's save to assume that this is true for the Clevo/Eurocom version too. Since there are some changes in hardware IDs you'll need to force the flash. NOTE: This should work just as well when your system has a FirePro M8900 and you want to optimize the gaming performance - simply flash the 6970m VBIOS and install the regular driver and you're done. The Dell 6970m VBIOS can be found in this post. Also a big thanks to @Star Forge for providing the VBIOS of the FirePro M8900!! Here's a 3dMark Vantage run with after applying the soft mod to the 6970m, everything at stock, also in the CPCC. Not too bad imo, same pretty much the same as the stock run I did when I got the 6970m in April. Would be interesting to see some gaming comparisions... but I haven't installed any games atm. EDIT: For M17x r3 users: You need to modify the driver, otherwise it won't install here the instruction, a big thanks goes to @devillucifer for investigating this problem and finding a solution. When I come around to do so I'll post a link to a modified driver so you don't have to modify them yourself. Detailed guide for flashing the VBIOS: UPDATE: This also works with the 6990m. Note that the M8900 VBIOS has the same clock speeds as the 6970m, so the 6990m is actually underclocked with this VBIOS. You can easily overclock it with software or modify the clocks of the VBIOS before flashing, so that you're back at 6990m speeds. But even at standard clocks the 6990m performs better than the M8900 or 6970m, the card has 120 additional shaders which will bring a little performance boost as you can see in the screenshot below, I about 1000 points more on the GPU score compared to the 6970m flashed with the M8900 VBIOS (at the same clocks). UPDATE 1/17/16 DOWNLOAD FOR AMD FIREPRO M8900.ZIP HERE:

Mine is different, it's two of those units combined with some other stuff. Phase change - Single compressor ~ -45C Cascade - Multiple compressors ~ -110C Plus mine is hand built by the guy that built almost all the world record holding coolers, it's on another level to coolerexpress (they're good too though).

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But..... but.......... I am an overclocking god..... :77: Stick with the 2720, whoever it was that posted almost no difference is 100% right, there is NO WAY it added 10-15fps unless his previous CPU was a 486DX2. EDIT: Just realised my score remains unbeaten, despite my GPUs not clocking very high (compared to some). :D

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Hmm, I'm no expert when it comes to Mac OS or generally spoken unix-like systems. Driver compatibility is still a common issue. There should be Linux drivers for the FirePro Series, but I never heard about Mac OS drivers. Did you already try the mod with the Apple 6970m? The regular 6970m have the same hardware ID as the FirePro M8900, this means it might be possible to use a regular Radeon HD driver with a M8900. I haven't tried this yet, my 6970m isn't in my system at the moment. Can you check the hardware ID of your card? Post a GPU-Z screenshot, or a copy of your VBIOS. In case the hardware ID is the same and the Apple driver works with the M8900 VBIOS there wouldn't be any need to flash the card all the time. Otherwise I can't really help, the only other way I can think of would be reflashing the card everytime you boot to another OS. Flashing is a quick process, but there's always a slight chance of failure... I never had issues with it, but there's no warranty that you never get any corruption while programming the VBIOS chip. Another option would be a hardware mod, but you probably don't really want to do this. You could simply install a second VBIOS chip with another VBIOS on it and modify your card in a way that you have a switch which lets you choose between the two chips. Yeah, it's a driver related problem, probably because of the integrated Intel GPU and related drivers. You need to modify the drivers and it should work, @devillucifer apparently found out how to mod it, hope he can pass some information about the process EDIT: Check the post below for details... great work devillucifer! Added this to the first post!

CPU only for now. GPU later when I have more time. IC Diamond 24 Carrat Thermal Compount Survey CPU-Z Laptop Model M17x-r3 Processor i7-2820QM Core Speed 2.3GHz Thermal compound used for CPU Arctic Cooling MX-4 HWiNFO - CPU Average min CPU temperature with previous thermal compound 47 Average min CPU temperature with ICD 24 44.5 Average max CPU temperature with previous thermal compound 85.5 Average max CPU temperature with ICD 24 76.5 Throttle Stop Average max CPU temperature with previous thermal compound 85.6 Average max CPU temperature with ICD 24 76.5 When I last pasted roughly 2 months ago (with mx-4) temps were maxing out at 82. Since then, I've run about 20ish 20+ hour renders...looks like the load toasted the paste fairly quickly. Above MX-4 max temps incurred 82.5% CMOD (while plugged in)[ATTACH=CONFIG]2156[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]2155[/ATTACH](Just realized that I forgot to upload pics of old paste + ICD process....so tired....will do it tomorrow night. Apologies for the half-assed post)EDIT:Previous thermal compound - MX4 [ATTACH=CONFIG]2157[/ATTACH]ICD24 - I felt like I was applying almost double what I would normally....used recommended volume. [ATTACH=CONFIG]2158[/ATTACH]

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IC Diamond 24 Carrat Thermal Compount Survey CPU-Z Laptop Model Alienware M15x Processor Intel i7-920XM Core Speed 2.00 GHz GPU-Z GPU Nvidia GTX 260m GPU Core / Shader Clock 550 / 1350 MHz Memory Clock 950 MHz Thermal Compound used for CPU Arctic Cooling MX-4 Thermal Compound used for GPU Arctic Cooling MX-4 HWiNFO - CPU Average min CPU temperature with previous thermal compound 46.4°C Average min CPU temperature with ICD 24 42.3°C Average max CPU temperature with previous thermal compound 80.8°C Average max CPU temperature with ICD 24 79°C HWiNFO - GPU #1 Average min GPU #1 temperature with previous thermal compound 45.35°C Average min GPU #1 temperature with ICD 24 42.35°C Average max GPU #1 temperature with previous thermal compound 87.3 C Average max GPU #1 temperature with ICD 24 84.7°C Throttle Stop Average max CPU temperature with previous thermal compound 80.75°C Average max CPU temperature with ICD 24 79°C Previous Thermal Compound - CPU [ATTACH=CONFIG]1984[/ATTACH]ICD 24 - CPU (applying) [ATTACH=CONFIG]1980[/ATTACH]Previous Thermal Compound - GPU[ATTACH=CONFIG]1985[/ATTACH]ICD 24 - GPU (applying) [ATTACH=CONFIG]1981[/ATTACH]Temperatures with previous thermal compound [ATTACH=CONFIG]1983[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]1982[/ATTACH]Temperatures with ICD 24 [ATTACH=CONFIG]1979[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]1978[/ATTACH]So, took a while, but I finally came around to do some testing. I have the Nvidia GTX 260m in the system at the moment, needed to remove the 6970m to do some measuring on the card to do some measuring before I do the voltmod. CPU and GPU were both on stock clocks, room temperature was 26°C.ICD24 isn't as easy to apply as MX-4, but temps did indeed go down a couple of degrees. When I put back the 6970m I'll see whether how good my pasting job was, but according to the temps it should be fine. Edit:Here's the spread of the IC Diamond on the CPU and heatsink: [ATTACH=CONFIG]2193[/ATTACH]

*Ambient Temperature raised about 6 Celsius from stock pasting test to ICD 24 test IC Diamond 24 Carrat Thermal Compount Survey CPU-Z Laptop Model Alienware M18x R1 Processor Intel Core i7 Extreme 2920XM Core Speed 2.50 GHz (stock 2920 settings + XM Disabled + factory overclock disabled) GPU-Z GPU 2X ATI Mobility Radeon 6970 (stock settings + stock driver) GPU Clock 680 MHz Memory Clock 900 MHz Thermal Compound used for CPU Stock Thermal Compound used for GPU Stock HWiNFO - CPU Average min CPU temperature with previous thermal compound 39.5 Average min CPU temperature with ICD 24 39.75 Average max CPU temperature with previous thermal compound 76.5 Average max CPU temperature with ICD 24 74.25 HWiNFO - GPU #1 Average min GPU #1 temperature with previous thermal compound 47.25 Average min GPU #1 temperature with ICD 24 46.5 Average max GPU #1 temperature with previous thermal compound 81 Average max GPU #1 temperature with ICD 24 78.125 HWiNFO - GPU #2 Average min GPU #2 temperature with previous thermal compound 57.625 Average min GPU #2 temperature with ICD 24 56.25 Average max GPU #2 temperature with previous thermal compound 81.25 Average max GPU #2 temperature with ICD 24 76.875 Throttle Stop Average max CPU temperature with previous thermal compound 76.875 Average max CPU temperature with ICD 24 74.5 Previous Thermal Compound - CPU [ATTACH=CONFIG]1913[/ATTACH] ICD 24 - CPU [ATTACH=CONFIG]1914[/ATTACH] Previous Thermal Compound - GPU #1 [ATTACH=CONFIG]1907[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]1908[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]1909[/ATTACH] ICD 24 - GPU #1 [ATTACH=CONFIG]1910[/ATTACH] Previous Thermal Compound - GPU #2 [ATTACH=CONFIG]1911[/ATTACH] ICD 24 - GPU #2 [ATTACH=CONFIG]1912[/ATTACH] Temperatures with previous thermal compound [ATTACH=CONFIG]1837[/ATTACH] Temperatures with ICD 24 [ATTACH=CONFIG]1838[/ATTACH]

just pick the case up. there are a few minor imperfections but looks awesome.

here it is the worlds most expensive key chain hahaha, i only used the die part only.