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I guess I'll join in so I'm not trying to make BS posts. I'm Mike, just an average gamer, if you want to call me that...currently running an MSI GT683R and mostly play Battlefield 3...actually got on here to get the unlocked BIOS to prevent my CPU from stepping down to 800MHz in game...lol. Actually soon I'm planning on selling this for (unfortunately) a Macbook Pro (non Retina) with the GTX 650M (mainly to use the laptop with audio production)...hoping to learn some interesting stuff here!

TVHM is where it's at difficulty wise, you go from being a total badass to getting smashed by weakling enemies. The first armored maniac nearly gave me a nervous breakdown; that said, don't even get me started on rabid stalkers. 200hrs in and loving it still.... 18k badass, anyone else at this kind of level?

svl7, I don't know how you did it, but before your vBIOS mod (Dell 680m 2 gig, no voltage mod, second post on page 1), the throttling was awful. Not only that, but my 3840QM wouldn't stay overclocked from the BIOS. After a few seconds into windows, it would always drop back down to default 2.8 Ghz, and nothing I did would bring it back. NOW, after applying your vBIOS mod, the 680m STAYS at overclocked setting during usage (no crippling throttling), and as a bonus (and you can call me crazy for this), my 3840QM ALSO stays overclocked, rock solid at 4.2 Ghz, even at idle. And that's on the A08 locked BIOS of my Alienware M18x R2. I don't think you meant for that to happen, but it seems to be a happy side affect of the vBIOS, which I guess somehow indirectly affects or interacts with the main motherboard BIOS. Dell dropped the ball on these issues (deliberately it seems to me), and you picked it up and ran with it, and scored big time. Very nicely done. Very impressive. Thank you for a job very well done.

Your 9700M GT dGPU is attached to the Northbridge at x16. We're trying to utilise the PCIe lanes of the Southbridge (ICH9M) to plug in the eGPU to. Those ports you have listed (if you got that from device manager) are the ports that are currently active and not disabled, i.e. ports 4 and 5 are disabled by the BIOS. Your WiFi card is connected to ports 1, 2, 3 or 6. You can do an x4 on the condition that Ports 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all accessible via either miniPCIe or ExpressCard. Very few notebooks are physically capable of doing this; your notebook seems to only have 1 miniPCIe slot and 1 ExpressCard slot, so you'd be limited to doing an x2 setup, but only if the mPCIe and EC are ports 1,2 or ports 3,4. If not, then you'd be limited to x1. To find out what occupies which port, do the following: Device Manager > View > Devices by Connection > ACPI xx PC > etc, until you get down into PCI bus then check the ports you gave above for any attached devices.

Lastnights results. 3DMark06: 26917 3DMark Vantage: 30238 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-980X Processor,CLEVO CO. X7200 score: P30238 3DMarks 3DMark11: 7346 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-980X Processor,CLEVO CO. X7200 score: P7346 3DMarks wPrime32M: 4.586 sec

Voltage mod for the Nvidia GT 555m of the M14x This is an Alienware M14x BIOS containing a modified VBIOS which has a slightly increased GPU core voltage at 3d clocks. The increased voltage will allow you to overclock the GPU core a bit more. So far people got it up to 850MHz, but each chip is different. The system will draw a bit more power and run warmer than before. If you want to see some results, -voltage-increase-nvidia-gt-555m-8.html#post12013"]P1900 and -voltage-increase-nvidia-gt-555m-8.html#post12027"]even more is possible in 3dMark11, thanks to this mod. Since the VBIOS of this system is part of the BIOS, modifying it isn't as easy as playing with a vbios of a dedicated GPU. I had find and extract the VBIOS file from the BIOS. Since I don't have a lot of practice with modifying Nvidia bios files I needed some help there, so thanks to Saltius from MVKtech for identifying the voltage strings and modifying the VBIOS. Also thanks @n3ocort3x for starting this project and @Ninjahunter for testing it, and thanks to everyone else involved! INSTRUCTIONS: Attached is the repacked BIOS which contains the modified VBIOS. Extract it and simply execute InsydeFlash.exe and it the flashing procedure will start. Remember to close all applications in the background before doing this and make sure your system doesn't accidentally shutdown during the process. After flashing, I highly recommend going to the BIOS, load the default settings, apply and reboot. This will cause the system to reinitialize the hardware and can save you from some issues in certain cases. As already mentioned, overvolting always comes with raised temperatures. Make sure your system can handle the additional amount of heat. Check the airflow, a dust-free system is important and reapplying the thermal paste can lower your temperature by several degrees.And keep in mind that this only changes the core voltage of the GPU, not the memory voltage. So this will only affect the maximum overclock on the core. Update: Repacked the unlocked BIOS A03 with the modified VBIOS, check the attachements. Update 2: Repacked BIOS A05 with the modded VBIOS. Update 3: Repacked the unlocked BIOS A05 with the modded VBIOS. Update 4: Repacked BIOS A07 & A08 with the modded VBIOS, attached below. Update 5: Unlocked A07 & A08 with modded VBIOS added. Update 6: New version of A08 uploaded, volt mod now works for GF116 as well. Users with the newer 555m revision (GF116 - check GPU-Z) seem to have issues with the original mod. So please use the updated A08 version attached at the end of the post ("GF116 fix"). It will also work for GF106 systems. I will upload a fix for the unlocked version of A08 as well, as soon as I get around to do so. UPDATE: Two new versions of A08 added which bring back the SATA behavior of A05, so GF116 users can enjoy more SATA speed as well. Or for all GF106 users which want to use the latest BIOS but keep the SATA behavior from A05. Standard and unlocked versions added. *************** If you like these BIOS releases, please consider a donation to Tech|Inferno. *************** _____________________________ #As always with such mods: You are responsible for all the changes at your system and do this at your own risk _____________________________ M14x A01 voltmod flash package.zip M14x unlocked A03 with GT555m volt mod.zip M14x A05 incl VBIOS volt mod.zip M14x unlocked A05 incl VBIOS volt mod.zip M14x [unlocked] A08 with voltmod.zip M14x A07 - voltmod.zip M14x A08 - voltmod.zip M14x A08 - voltmod - GF116 fix.zip M14xR1_A08_voltmod_incl_GF116_support_&_SATA_fix.zip M14xR1_A08_[unlocked]_voltmod_incl_GF116_&_SATA_fix.zip