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@chiefule ok good! Was a little confused there for a sec lol. I haven't even installed the 680M yet, I had a ton of things to do today and I'm just now finishing up benchmarking the 580M. I did 580M stock + OC runs so it takes a bit of time. I'll hopefully install the 680M tomorrow afternoon and start benchmarking + vbios flashing

Here are a few quick stock standard scores for you to compare with Brian. AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Genuine Intel® CPU 0 @ 2.40GHz,Alienware M18xR1 score: P9468 3DMarks = Crossfire enabled AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Genuine Intel® CPU 0 @ 2.40GHz,Alienware M18xR1 score: P5826 3DMarks = Crossfire disabled AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Genuine Intel® CPU 0 @ 2.40GHz,Alienware M18xR1 score: P6479 3DMarks = Tesselation turned off http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3988869 = GPU Overclocked and CPU stock clocks Vantage scores to come.......... http://imageshack.us/f/98/67177173.jpg/ http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/103/74600277.jpg Cheers

Ok 680M is in! Big thanks to @jhmonroy for his inf tips, saved me a lot of time figuring out the entries on my own. Fan control works good, idle temp is around 44-45C which ain't bad. I initially pasted with ICD7 but that stuff just scratches everything and is difficult to work with so I got rid of it and put in MX-4. I'll just repaste every few months, no big deal. The M18x still isn't put back together, I just did a quick boot up to check and make sure everything is working. Going to run mark 11 just to see how it does at default and then put everything back together and start benching

Yes it works

Hi svl7, this is the (I think) Clevo 4GB 680m vBios, that says its vendor is dell (1028) when installed in an Alienware m17xR3 680m CLEVO 4GB-vendor 1028.zip

Nope does not unlock the OC. It came default on all our systems with dual 680Ms