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  1. Hello everyone, First of all I have to thanks to this community for the help and information you provide. The last Christmas I decided to make a small gaming PC that I can transport with me in my hand luggage when I have to travel on plane. But I discovered this forum and I preferred to invert my money in update my Macbook Pro and try with the eGPU option. Today I am really happy, my easy to transport laptop is capable to play modern games if I need it. HARDWARE: Macbook Pro (Late 2011) Intel Core i7 2.2 GHz "Sandy Bridge" AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512MB Thunderbolt 1 16 GB 1333MHz DDR3 (Updated) HD SSD 500GB + HD SSD 120GB (Updated) AKiTiO Thunder2 PCIe Box EVGA GTX 960 FTW 2GB Corsair CS 550M Jumper switch Molex cable DC power connector SOFTWARE: OSX Capitan 10.11.4 Windows 10 INSTALLATION: Create a Molex to barrel cable following this guide. Insert the graphic card in the AKiTiO Thunder2 PCIe Box. Insert the jumper switch in the PSU. Connect the AKiTiO Thunder2 PCIe Box with the molex to barrel cable. Install OSX in the main SSD. Connect the Thunderbolt cable into the Macbook Pro. Turn on the eGPU. Turn on the Macbook Pro. Install the eGPU script. Install CUDA drivers. Restart and you have the eGPU working on OSX. Install Windows with Bootcamp. If you want to install Windows in a secondary drive you have to create a Windows partition with Bootcamp, install Windows and then clone it to the secondary drive with an specific software. In my case I used Wineclone. If not, install Windows with Bootcamp as usual. Install the Bootcamp drivers without the ATI drivers. Connect the Thunderbolt cable into the Macbook Pro. Turn on the eGPU. Turn on the Macbook Pro. Push ALT button and boot in Windows. Install the last Nvidia drivers. Restart, choose Windows again and you have the eGPU working on Windows. BENCHMARKS: NOTES (UPDATE 29/07/2016): The CPU on Windows had problems with temperature, sometimes it raised more than 90º. I've tried to undervolt the CPU but was impossible. At the end I changed the maximum processor state in the Windows options to 99%. With this I didn't have better results in the benchmarks but I improved the temperature. At the end the best solution for me was to use the program ThrottleStop. I tested different profiles until I keep my CPU on 80º maximum. This annoyed me. I couldn't squeeze the GPU using overclock even when this card is ready for that. I only can increase to +60 MHz GPU Clock and +500 MHz Mem Clock and without much difference in the results. My GPU is too big for the Akitio Box. I didn't want to have the CPU and the GPU without anything. I created a temporary case with a magazine file set I bought in IKEA. Sorry but I am not allowed to upload more pictures in this post! EDIT, new images: Thanks!
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  2. Yup guide here Yeah your system does not like the me fw meant for someone else. Basically download the program set and make the same changes to your original me fw dump as the dump you tried.
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  3. Yep. If your Expresscard is PCIe Gen2 x1, it is the equivalent of PCIe Gen1 x2. Thunderbolt 1 is a PCIe Gen1 x4, so it has twice the bandwidth than the Expresscard solution. If your Expresscard is PCIe Gen1 x1, then Thunderbolt 1 will have 4 times the bandwidth. In either case, it is quite a bit more breathing room for your card to work with. Also, there is also the Thundertek/PX, which is a Thunderbolt1 solution and cheaper than the Akitio (keep in mind that it doesn't come with a TB cable, but a TB cable can be found on Ebay for 20-30$ - I bought one last week for 19.50$). You will be modding either device to work with a GTX970, so you should be able to save some money on the cheaper Thundertek (unless shipping is going to kill that off). I suggest you browse the guide forums to see both solutions used.
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  4. I will get the new adapter end of may. Stay tuned :-)
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  5. @J95 Bought you a beer for making my life easy. Keep up the hard work!
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  6. I'm taking some history lessons and doing some math for an hour now Here is what I found : Back in 2010, with Fermi Architecture, 480M performance was about 40% of desktop 480. In 2012, with Kepler architecture, 680M performance was about 60% of desktop 680. In 2014, with Maxwell architecture, 980M performance was about 80% of desktop 980. GTX 1080 shows more than 70% fps boost over GTX 980. If 1080M performance is about 80% of desktop 1080, then it means 1080M is 30% more powerful than desktop 980! With same calculations 1070M is as powerful as desktop 980. I'm looking forward to this. Sent from my SM-G925F using Tapatalk
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  7. After a week of research, problems, crashes and clockspeeds that won't apply, i finally found the way to overclock this baby! WARNING: NEVER, EVER ,FLASH THE VBIOSES IN THIS GUIDE BEFORE YOU'VE READEN THIS WHOLE GUIDE! I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE ON YOUR MACHINE , DYING BIRDS OR ALIEN ATTACKS! So, you want to crank up your 8970M? Just follow the following steps in this guide to unlock it's full potential! Step 1: Uninstall every overclock program for your gpu like msi afterburner or sapphire trixx. If you don't do this you may get some interference and get some strange problems. Step 2: Because we are going to overclock we are going to need a unlocked power limit control. I made 3 vbioses, which are in the attachements, that have an unlocked power power limit that goes up to +50% and can be controlled with software and 2 of them also have a higher stock voltage programmed. You can choose between: - 1.025V +50% power limit (stock voltage, only unlocked power limit) - 1.050V +50% power limit (slightly higher voltage, unlocked power limit) - 1.075V +50% power limit (higher voltage, unlocked power limit) None of these bioses have a dangerous voltage, you can run these voltages 24/7 without problem if your temperatures allow it. Now you have to flash one of these vbioses, you can choose which one you want. The voltage can also be changed with software so you don't have to be afraid that you've chosen a vbios with a too low voltage to start with. Step 3: Now you've chosen a vbios you have to flash it, the program we are going to use is atiflash. (Don't use atiwinflash) This program will only run in DOS which is pretty nice because in dos there aren't program's that can ruin your vbios flash by blocking the program or just block it half way the vbios flash. But now we need to get a dos environment to get this program running, well that's pretty easy with the following tool: -HP USB Format Tool This tool can format your usb and put a dos environment in it which is bootable. For this you need the following files from the attachements: -HP USB Format Tool -Win 98 Boot files When you've downloaded them you have to install the HP USB Format tool and unpack the win98 boot files zip. After you've done that you put in your usb in your laptop and open the HP USB Format Tool. Then you have got to configure the HP USB Format Tool to format your usb the right way so it has the dos environment. These are the settings: - Format as FAT32 - Tick the "Quick Format" box - Tick the "Create a DOS startup disk" - Browse to the folder where the win98 boot files are in so it can create the dos environment with those files - Click on "start" Now you've succesfully formatted your usb stick with the bootable dos environment. Now you have got to download atiflash from the attachement and unpack the .zip Rename the .exe to atiflash and copy it to the root of your usb stick with the dos environment. You've also got to copy your selected bios file to the root of your usb. After that you will have the following things on your usb: -Bootable DOS environment files -Atiflash.exe -Thames.rom (the vbios) Now you have to restart your laptop and boot from the usb, you will shortly see a win98 boot screen and then you are in a simple dos environment. First, we want to check if you are flashing the vbios to the right card, so we use the following command: atiflash -i <gpu number=""> So i have only one gpu, so i will use the following command to check if i'm flashing the right gpu: atiflash -i 0 0 is the number of the first gpu, but you always got to check it before you are going to flash. And if it's not gpu number 0, you can try gpu number 1 or 2 or even 3 So after we determined which gpu number is the right number we will use the following command to flash the gpu: atiflash -p <gpu number=""> <bios file=""> So i have only one gpu and the bios file is called Thames.rom so i will use the following command: atiflash -p 0 Thames.rom That's it, you just flashed a new vbios in your 8970M! Step 4: Unplug your usb and boot in windows. You need to disable ulps before you can overclock, otherwise the card will just keep his stock clock when you are overclocking which you don't want To disable ulps you have to open regedit, open the search menu in regedit with ctrl+f and put in the search box: ulps Now you've got to set every registery key with ulps in it to 0 Because 0=off and 1=on and we want to turn of ulps. Step 5: Now we can get to the software part. First you download msi afterburner from the attachement and install it. Now you have got to right click on the MSI Afterburner shortcut and go to properties. Now you've got to add the command -xcl to the target like this: Default: "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI Afterburner\MSIAfterburner.exe" </bios></gpu></gpu> With -xcl "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI Afterburner\MSIAfterburner.exe" -xcl After you have done this you can launch msi afterburner, if it launches you can close it again and if it doesn't want to lauch (you click on the shortcut and nothing happens) it's also okay. This command will let MSI Afterburner change some registery keys and things so software voltage control is unlocked. The only thing is that MSI Afterburner doesn't support the vrm's on the 8970M so we will delete it again, we only needed it for the changes to the registery. Step 6: Now we have unlocked software voltage control and unlocked tdp control. We only need a program that supports the vrm's and can change the core clock, power limit and voltage. And there is such a program, Sapphire Trixx! You've got to download it from the attachement and install it. When you open it you will get the following settings in the overclock menu: -Core clock control -Memory clock control -VDDC control (the voltage control) -power limit control You can change everything except for the memory clock, if you change it for only 1 mhz your card will crash. Every 8970M has that problem and i think that it's a overclock protection or something like that. So well, here you've got it. Now you can clock your 8970M to the overclockers hell Don't flash these bioses on any other laptop than Clevo laptops The max voltage i recommend for 24/7 is 1.075V, you can go higher but i wouldn't recommend it for 24/7 But you can only run on your overclocked settings with ulps disabled. And if you disable ulps your 8970M won't turn off anymore so your battery life is ruïned. To fix this you have to do: Find the core clock/power limit/voltage setting that you prefer and post them in this thread. I can make a bios with those settings in it so you don't have to run any software and you can enable ulps again because the setting are now in the vbios file so the gpu loads them from the vbios, and not from the software. 8970M VBIOS 1.025V 50% power limit.zip 8970M VBIOS 1.050V 50% power limit.zip 8970M VBIOS 1.075V 50% power limit.zip atiflash.zip HPUSBFormatTool.zip MSIAfterburner.zip Sapphire_Trixx.zip win98boot.zip
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