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  1. Hello, I'm thinking of getting SSD as 3rd drive for my GT780DXR From my research I've found there is a ODD caddy bay available - this will allow me to remove DVD drive and plug in 3rd hdd. Anybody tried it? My concerns are: - is the ODD port SATA 2 or SATA 3 ? Is it possible to keep the two HDDs in raid0 while having SSD as boot drive ? It seems that I have to turn on AHCI mode in bios for SSD, but this will break my raid obviously. Anybody played with raid config utility ? Is it possible to config it this way ? (SSD as single boot drive, 2xHDD in raid 0 as secondary partition) Thx for any suggestions and tips. [Edit:] getting a bad feeleing about this... the more I read about this "fake intel raid" in MSI notebooks... Looks like this RAID does not support TRIM on SSD. So its either SSD+2XHDD in AHCI or RAID.
  2. guys I don't think it's the temps. I've got the exact same card(blue clevo), in GT780 (2630qm) and I dont have any drops. Using 150W acad. I'm using throttlestop - Not tunred ON, just running in background (it says "Monitoring only" - I know this sounds stupid but I had drops every now and then When turned ON in performance mode... maybe because the cpu is not xtreme edition.) And I'm using Afterburner - not OC'd anything, just running in the background and set FPS cap to 60 (got 60Hz LCD so no point getting more than that.) My card is running 65-75 C in load depending on the game... So I think your fps drops are not related to temperature. I don't have a wire soldered to motherboard (this was supposed to help with GTX580M cards back in those days) One thing that might be important - I'm using external screen. - always. If you can, try using external screen and see if this helps. I know, I don't understand either. One thing is that Internal LCD backlight is managed by GPU bios (flashed wrong bios and backlight didnt work)- so these things might be somehow related. Try throttlestop in monitoring only and try fpscap in afterburner.
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    MSI GTX 770M vbios

    Well I used sv7's but the bios was strange. It couldnt recognize my Dell Ultrasharp LCD in VGA port. It was recognized as "standard vga monitor" and I couldnt run anything in fullscreen on it. Maybe because it was clevo card. I'll test yours and see... thx.
  4. this basically explains everything. THANK YOU!
  5. You cannot get full turbo boost on ALL 4 cores at once on 2670QM. Or am I missing something ? AFAIK you can get full boost an all cores only on extreme edition cpus....
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    MSI GTX 770M vbios

    Very much appreciated Thank you.
  7. I bought the first one I could find. Didn’t care about any brand… just got some 0.5mm and some 0.7mm I used two stripes – 2x10cm and cut how much I needed… Regarding how to place it… have a look at the card and heatsink.. slowly try to fit the heatsink while holding the card in one hand and heatsink in another. All out of the laptop – without thermal grease… just to see which part is touching which… And then just place the pads to the card so that no part of card is touching heatsink directly. Except for core ofc. Most important are memory chips and the big square capacitors… but again, make sure nothing is touching directly the heatsink. Then just place it into laptop, apply grease on core and fit the heatsink. HDMI and VGA works great with stock clevo bios. When I updated to MSI vbios.. it worked but VGA couldnt recognize my Dell Ultrasharp... It worked as "standard vga monitor" So I flashed it back to clevo vbios... everything runs great but I have to use modded inf. This however, depends on your laptop.. Ive got MSI GT780R... MSI vbios might work excellent on the GT70 and newer models.
  8. that's strange... because intel says even 380m has PCIe rev. 2.0 [url=http://ark.intel.com/products/50178/Intel-Core-i3-380M-Processor-3M-Cache-2_53-GHz]ARK | Intel® Core[/url] PCI Express Revision 2.0 PCI Express Configurations ‡ 1x16 Max # of PCI Express Lanes 16 May the motherboard be the limit ? I think northbridge is in cpu..so it shouldnt be a mobo issue, however im not sure if first gen. i-Cores features northbridge as well.Anyway, since you tested and it didnt work, I guess intel is listing wrong data...I'll try i7 then.Thank you.
  9. Bugii

    MSI GTX 770M vbios

    Guys do you have stock MSI GTX 770M vbios to share ? I'm thinking to flash MSI vBios on my Clevo card - I'm too lazy to use modded inf every time I fiddle with the card. I've found svl7's OC edition unlocked vbios - But I'd like to have the stock one. Don't wanna mess with voltages as I'd like to keep this one card for a while... Thx.
  10. Clevo (blue board) is confirmed to work in sandy bridge (MSI 780/783/683) I know it sounds stupid but I wouldnt risk the MSI card (green) Get the blue one - clevo, it will work for sure. - - - Updated - - - You don't need to flash anything. Just replace the card. Make sure to buy Clevo version GTX 770m - blue board. That one is confirmed to work in gt780dx. Replace card and thats it. (of course, add thermal grease etc.) But nothing else is needed. I'm still running on stock vbios - i didnt flash bios, it is working as it is.
  11. card: http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Nvidia-GeForce-GTX-770M-3GB-DDR5-MXM-3-0-Type-B-for-Clevo-Alienware-MSI-/271237279139 heatsink: http://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-Heat-Sink-nVidia-GTX570-GTX580-GTX670-GTX675-E31-0405765-Y31-/271394658082?pt=US_CPU_Fans_Heatsinks&hash=item3f3061d722
  12. it is not possible to get anything else than 1st gen i-core CPU working - 2nd gen has different socket. Fastest you can get is 920XM - however I'm not sure if it's worth the price. I dont think it is, you should be fine with the i5 460M you got right now. Yes you can get nvidia working without problems. I have tested: GTX 560M(this is not an upgrade to your current gpu) GTX 675M, GTX 770M (clevo version) and AMD HD7970M All of them wokring fine - yes exactly in gx660R. The only thng youwill need, is to buy or make a heatsink. You can use any of the GT60/GT70 series - they are the same. 675M ~75-80C HDMI depends on vbios - works with dell vbios doesnt work with msi vbios. (dell card tested) 770M ~65-70C HDMI works 7970M temps same as 675M, didnt have a chance to test HDMI.
  13. Can I have a link ? Or where did you find this out ? I've looked at ark.intel.com and couldnt find anything like this. It does actually make sense.. So that's one mystery solved...
  14. best cpu you can get is i7 1st gen. Only 1st gen cpus fit into motherboard. GPU, ... I've tested with GTX 675M, GTX 770M and HD7970M - all working fine. So yes, it IS possible with nvidia card. I've tested exactly on MSI GX660 - stock card was HD5870M
  15. Hmm, this is actually very clever! I will try somehow... Thank you!
  16. Well, thats the problem here, it will not. - - - Updated - - - Okay, so the problem is elsewhere... Thank you anyway guys.
  17. Well, ..define "LOW" ... it's 80% of what it could be By that, I mean that the same card runs at full load and performs better in different laptop. That different laptop is MSI 1761. This one (16F1) has HM55 compared to HM67 chipset. It has 1st gen i5 @2.9GHz compared to 2nd gen [email protected] Same amount of ram tested in both, raid0 in both. So yes, the overall config is slightly worse, it's just... the CPU is not stressed at all so it shouldnt be a bottleneck. The only difference I see is that it runs at PCIe 1.1 copared to PCIe 2.0 So I was wondering if THIS can cause the card not to get 100% load. So let me ask the question in a different way: Can PCIe 1.1 cause that the GPU is not fully utilized comparing to the same card running PCIe 2.0 ? HM55 and i5 should support PCIe 2.0 so I don't know... maybe its defective mobo or CPU. Maybe it's the "PCIe slot" itself... I will try GTX 770m in 16f1 when I got the chance...
  18. Well I've tried many games and benchmarks.. even the "render test" in gpu-z wont get the card loaded more than 80% and CPU is literally idle. Maximum temperature I've seen on the card in this laptop was ~75°C (I know the card can get up to 86 when running at full load, but thats the problem, it wont get higher than 80% load ever.) 150W acad - the card was running @pcie2 using the same 150W acad in a different laptop (MSI 1761) I do admit CPU is quite weak, but I cant believe it will behave this way if it was bottleneck... I will try the "trick" in control panel tonight...
  19. Hello, I've run into a problem, hping someone would have any idea what to try... basically some time ago I've upgraded GT660R (16F1) machine with a GTX 675M card. Card is working but its not fully utilized. At first I thought it was i5 CPU bottleneck but I have noticed its running at PCIe 1 all the time. Even when stressed (both game and gpu-z render test) shows the card runs at PCIe v1.1 x16 When idle, it drops to PCIe v1.1 x1 The card never reaches more than 70-80% load and CPU is not stressed. Any ideas why ? In other laptop the card runs at PCIe v2.0 x16 and load goes up to 99% Accordng to intel - 1st gen i5 460M should support PCIe v2.0 Mobo has HM55 chipset I think. Tried reseating the card, flashing different vbios and bios, completely reinstall system.
  20. for the fps drops - run throttlestop guys. I had the same issue on 675m. Havent had the issue on 7970m which is also 100W card. ??? No idea whats going on. I just run throttlestop (monitoring only) and the drops were gone. Again - I did nothing in throttlestop - I didnt even turn it ON, just run the app and minimized. (i7 2630qm) however 770m is working perfectly without it. Even 7970m was good without TS.
  21. I had two completely new dell cards (770m) neither of them worked. Stuck at bios splash screen. Cards worked in alienware. Clevo card (blue board) worked perfectly. However, in this post http://forum.techinferno.com/msi/3810-upgrading-gt780dx-277us-ms-1761-gtx780m-3.html BigKid states he bought green (dell) card and it worked.. hes struggling with drivers but the card booted. I'm confused now. Looks like hit'n'miss
  22. modded inf is bad. It happened to me as well. Try different. I'm using 331.65 drivers with modded inf from some older version (not the one for 331.65) simply download more of them and try. Regarding the 675mx, sell it, that card wont work in MSI.
  23. Strange. This one should be fine. I had exactly the same issue as you do on msi 16f1 - 15" version of your laptop (i5 460m PM55 chipset) and the problem was the memory modules as I described. Try to get unlocked bios and set memory frequency manually to 1066MHz. Also, make sure you are using just 2 memory slots! My GT660 has 3 memory slots but I can use only 2 of them (doesnt matter which 2 of the 3 I have, but as soon as I stick a memory into 3rd slot, its crashing - i5 460m supports only 2 slots) 3x 2GB leads to BSOD, 2x 4GB works OK.
  24. Maybe I didnt write it clearly. Open CPU-Z and look at memory profiles. there are several profiles for each memory. Here you can see pc3-8500 - because its in the motherboard that support only 1066MHz If you stick this same module into newer mobo, it will run at 1333MhZ - PC 10600 Now this memory module was sold in box with a sticker saying pc3 8500 - who cares? in fact its 10600 memory! Yes it can run at 8500 speed. - beause it has the low freq. profile. But - your memory module has JEDEC #1 = 609MHz, JEDEC#2= 685MHZ, .... So it is 10600 memory - but the lowest profile is 609MHz = this memory can NOT run at 533MHz (1066Mhz) - it's not stable. The one o the picture can. That means - you bought 1333MHZ memory. Yes it can run 1333MHz, unfortunately it cannot run lower, but it is possible that it can run even 1866Mhz! The statement that faster memory can always run at lower frequency is a MYTH! - usually it can, but not always Look at this one: It's PC 12800 - but lowest it can run is 10600 - this one cannot be used as 1066MHz memory - you will get blue screens, crashes etc.. (Probably your case.) - its not stable on freq. lower than 1333Mhz. The very same module on this second picture can be sold as 10600 if they want to sell it that way. In fact it's 12800 memory.
  25. you can use nvwin.inf from any older modded drivers.
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