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Bought you a few beers, sir. Last week actually. Nonetheless, I've said it before and I will say it again, thank you very much for everything that you have done and will continue to do (hopefully) in the modding community. Without your efforts, none of us would be able to push these systems to the performance levels that are being seen.

**** Since this seems a popular request I have added some overvolted Dell 680m vbios to the second post. Clevo and MSI will follow. A voltage increase will always result in higher temps. Keep that in mind. Use at your own risk. If you're reading this thread you certainly haven't missed all the latest overclocking results of @Brian @johnksss and [MENTION=119]Mr. Fox[/MENTION], to name the top scorers. A lot of people seem to be under the impression that it just takes a nicely tuned vbios and moving the slider all the way up to get a top score, users have even complained that they can't reach those levels as they get limited by the voltage. Now let me clarify some things when it comes to benching: There's much more behind getting a record than just upping the sliders. While you can get a fantastic score by just overclocking it on hit or miss by using one of my vbios versions in the second thread, you definitely can't expect to beat those records by doing so. Tweaking the system and optimizing performance isn't just as simple as grabbing a software tool for overclocking and a special vbios, it needs a lot of tinkering, experimenting, patience and experience. Also benching is always a kind of competition, all in fun of course, but there's no point denying that once you start to like it, you will want to get the best score possible, or beat a certain other user. If you ask me, that's what makes it highly interesting and entertaining. However, since it is kind of a competition, and it needs a lot of work to come up on the top, you can't expect people to just share all their secrets with you. At least you can't expect that from me (the vbios should already be more than enough help ) @mw86, Johnksss, Mr. Fox as well as other users here have shared and posted highly valuable information regarding overclocking, I recommend to read it. You have to bench / optimize your system yourself, just copying the numbers and settings of someone else won't work, I can guarantee you that. To be on top you'll need to do some work. If you just want a very decent score in order to boast in front of people with the stock vbios - well then you can just up the sliders a bit and have fun, true. Real benching however is a different story. And in case you run into throttling issues I can already answer a question in advance - as long as you're using a vbios from the second post of this thread it definitely isn't caused by the vbios. It won't throttle (unless maybe at insanely high temps).

Vantage run Getting closer to that 44k over all score.

Hi anos, welcome to T|I. I am really glad your username is spelled with an o instead of u. just kiddin... Sent from my GT-N7100 using Tapatalk 2

So you've got hold of a 4GB version of a GTX 680m, figured out how to flash the vbios and it runs well. However, there are some things missing such as GPU boost and the ability to actually install drivers easily. Perhaps you are reluctant to run a vbios that ups to voltage to 1.037v. This thread aims to have everyone owning a 4GB GTX 680m get the most out of their GPU including enabling a GPU boost hack. This is not an overkill thread, but more about getting things working well with a good performance, quality and stability improvement over stock. There will be no crazy high voltages so everything should be safe short and long term however I take no responsibility for burnt or bricked cards. Please proceed at your own risk, there will be vbios flashing. First of all, the GTX 680m is similar to the desktop GTX 670 but severely downclocked. By OC'ing, one can get the core speed up to speed and beyond but clocking the memory @3Ghz (6GHz effective) in an attempt to reach its 192GBit/s bandwidth is very risky and likely dangerous. However, if the memory is clocked to 2250 (4.5Ghz effective) then the bandwidth is identical to that of the GTX 660 Ti @144GBit/s. Both desktop GPUs have the same base and boost clock at 915Mhz and 980Mhz respectively. This brings me to the vbios. Kindly created by master hex maestro svl7. The vbios (attached below) clocks in @915/1125(2250)Mhz exactly the same as that which I mentioned above. Those specific clocks are also what makes the GPU boost work well (I'll get to that later). The vbios is engineered from the MSI ES(FD) vbios and has a voltage of 1.025v and settles @1.0v during constant load. Not amazingly(potentially dangerously) high but there is still plenty of headroom for overclocking. Flash this, and verify with GPUz. Of course the memory clock can be anything but I chose 1125 as they are nice and neat as well as offering a mild but significant boost in performance. Next, drivers. The recent nvidia drivers are great but digging deep into the source code, we find that there are image quality hacks that trade image quality for performance. Plus some drivers just plain won't install if the GTX 680m is an aftermarket upgrade on unsupported mobos. These drivers are winners though: http://files.laptopvideo2go.com/Dox/geforce306.02.2-modded.exe Modded by the infamous Dox, all hacks are removed, quality is optimsed and support for all nvidia devices is included and should install without a hitch on any system. Drivers are uber stable but not great benchers as image quality is improved at some cost to performance. but I'd happily trade performance for decent quality and stability and use another driver to bench. And finally, enabling GPU boost. This method is not actually GPU boost but it functions in exactly the same way, call it "fake" GPU boost. What we need to do is to download Nvidia Inspector: NVIDIA Inspector 1.9.6.6 download from Guru3D.com Put that in a safe place and run it, allow overclocking and set the base offset to +65 to achieve 980Mhz, the same as the desktop cards. Now some of you may think that this is plain overclocking however, this is not the case. After applying the clocks (keep Inspector open), run a mild to moderately intensive GPU task such as playing HD video or opening the settings dialogue of Furmark (but not starting any test yet) and you will see that the clocks will still show 914.5Mhz. Start a game or Furmark and that will jump to 980Mhz similar to GPU Boost. Now click on "Create clocks shortcut" and a new shortcut should appear on the desktop. Drag that to your "Startup" folder in the Start menu and Fake GPU Boost should be enabled on every restart without any user input needed. I tested other base clock speeds ranging from 900Mhz up to 1000Mhz and and every boost clock speed from +1 to +100 and 915 -> 980 was the only combination that worked. Most other base clock speeds would always change to 928Mhz and without the 915Mhz baseclock, all other fake boost clock offsets would go to 966Mhz unless I went way beyond 1Ghz which I don't recommend anyway. Either it was coincidence that those clock speeds are identical to the desktop ones or that they are the only clocks that work on the GK104 which is why nvidia set them to the desktop ones in the first place. Please report back if you have any issues. I've only tested this myself but it should apply to all 4GB GTX 680m users. EDIT by svl7: Vbios is outdated, grab the latest one here: http://forum.techinferno.com/general-notebook-discussions/1847-nvidia-kepler-vbios-mods-overclocking-editions-modified-clocks-voltage-tweaks.html

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I dont have problem after 1-2 weeks of testing, everything work find. Dont try to use the russian mod, use only slv7 mod. This guy know what he is doing .... trust me ! thanks again for all again slv7

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You probably had a bad experience with HP's consumer Pavilion notebooks. Their business ones are much much better quality. They have to be.. business environments cannot afford downtime. Saying that, Dell, Lenovo and HP all make great business notebooks. I'd suggest scour the Outlets of each of these to grab a bargain. They have business notebooks in 12-17" size so you can pick which best suits you. The have refurb, remarketted and scratch and dent systems. Refurbished business products https://twitter.com/DellOutlet http://outlet.lenovo.com/ HP Probooks, Dell Vostros and Lenovo Thinkpad Edge are the budget business class systems that tend to have lower grade warranty. HP Elitebooks, Dell Latitudes/Precisions and Lenovo Thinkpads are their premium business class systems with better warranties.