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Robbo

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  1. Ah, I see, great! Well, you can still go to town with the voltage & power slider anyway!
  2. Impressive with the water cooling (although I guess you've kind of turned it into a desktop now!). In that case, with your temperatures being excellent you can probably really go to town with the voltage & power slider!
  3. If I remember correctly, people couldn't get Maxwell (980M) to work in the M18xR1, user Mr Fox and Godfafa tried it I believe. I haven't googled for the posts to double check, and am just going off memory - someone please correct me if I'm wrong about this. So far in Alienware working systems with Maxwell are: M15x, M17xR4, A17, M18xR2, A18.
  4. That's a good run Mike, the GPU score is in line with what you would expect for a +200 overclock, so it doesn't seem to be throttling or anything. Good job!
  5. Haha, I would hope so! No, but the max you can set seems to be 100 degC based on the pic on the first page (so would throttle at 100) - either way you don't want to run your GPU that hot!
  6. I don't think there's really an answer for that, but my thinking would be that I wouldn't use more than +100mv and I'd make sure temperatures were under 80 degC. My logic on this is just that +100mv is not far off stock & that temperatures in the 60's & 70's are great. If you're overvolting with temperatures in the 90's (80's) then I don't think that's a good thing - increasing temperature increases the silicon degredation effects of overvolting which can reduce the overall life of your GPU.
  7. Are you running mnvflash through a command line that has administrator privileges? (In Windows 7 you go to the search bar and type "cmd" (without the "), then right click on the program icon that comes up & choose "Run As Administrator". Then you run mnvflash from that DOS-like command line. This is my understanding on how it needs to be done. For Windows 8 it's probably a similar process to get to "cmd" - maybe!).
  8. M17xR3 M17xR4 A17 A17 R2 (the newest one out now with soldered GPUs!) I think that's the convention for the 17 inch over the last years.
  9. Yes, you need to do everything that's listed in the instructions in the first post. Have a read of those & then see if that works.
  10. I don't see why you have to flash it in pure DOS mode. Can't you load up Windows with the 980M installed, then follow the instructions in post #1 of this thread to flash the card from an elevated command prompt in Windows? mvnflash only works in windows apparently.
  11. I think it's better if you have a higher capacity PSU, maybe people have done mods on it, or maybe you can find one that's compatible. If you have to stick with the 230W PSU then you really need a Watt Meter (like Kill A Watt), so you can measure power draw for your testing & tweaking. Then you'd tweak optimal settings to stay within the limits of the PSU. Maybe you'd decide to reduce any CPU overclock, or even underclock & undervolt the CPU and then (overvolt &) overclock the GPU depending on if you needed more or less GPU vs CPU performance for any of the games you play. You'd be tweaking to focus your limited power to the most effective component - whether that be CPU or GPU - probably best results shifting the emphasis to the GPU.
  12. You should be OK using something like NVidia Inspector to increase the voltage a little, increase it one voltage notch at a time until it's stable, it's OK as long as your temperatures are good, below 80 degC. If I had your card I probably wouldn't increase voltage above +100mv of stock. Voltage increase only applies to core, not the VRAM; also, memory clock & core clock are not linked. Power Target - just increase that to 150% or something, just stops it throttling the clocks down due to power limitations.
  13. Have a look at the first post of this thread, the NVidia Inspector pic is showing everything unlocked by the looks of it. (Mhz / Power Slider / Voltage / Throttling Temperature)
  14. Fine, good, did you monitor the actual real time frequencies being used though during gaming - that was my point. To some extent it doesn't matter what you set the clocks to, if the GPU is not running those clocks during gaming then you're not gonna get the performance. Measure the actual clocks being used during gaming & what the GPU usage is - this will give you some indication as to what's going on.
  15. Monitor actual clocks & GPU usage during gaming using something like GPUz to determine where the difference lies. (Ensure that game is actually being run on NVidia dedicated GPU and not on the Intel GPU).
  16. 970M hardly draws any power, so probably safe to increase power slider dramatically, although the 970M does seem to have one less inductor than the 980M - does that mean that the 970M will have a limited power supply capability, not sure it's related to power supply, any ideas anyone? If that is the case, then maybe it won't be able to process safely quite as many Watts as the 980M - just a theory.
  17. The power slider will determine the maximum power that the GPU can draw in Watts. If you overclock then you'll want to increase the power slider beyond 100%, otherwise the GPU will throttle it's clocks when it hits the 100% limit. If I had such a GPU, and my temperatures were good, then I'd just put the power slider to max to avoid any power related throttling.
  18. Hi svl7, running this vBIOS from you that you modded (from the original bios I uploaded): http://forum.techinferno.com/attachments/general-notebook-discussions/8412d1374226559-clevo-670mx-3gb-80.04.58.00.03-oc-edition_rev02.zip Would be interested in flashing a version that can up the voltage to 1.1V and extend the Mhz sliders a little (at least 1200Mhz on core) - I estimate I could get an extra 10% performance on what I have currently. If you can do it easily & quickly then that would be cool - I'd give you a little donation too. (My GPU temps are about 67 degC, so I think it can handle a little more voltage & Mhz).
  19. Gotta hate that 180W PSU too! Hope you're right, and hope they've just got it all wrong - for the sake of technological progress!
  20. Haha, can't believe they've gone for the 4GB version given that current games are already maxing this out! Yes, a good sign for older systems that they're offering it on Windows 7 I reckon - gotta get a hold of that vBIOS, although the 4GB vBIOS won't work with an 8GB card right (and most 980M that you can buy are 8GB)?
  21. @godfafa and @mikecacho, will be really interesting to see if the nv_dispi.inf fix (which installs relevant Maxwell sections - identified by j95) will result in your systems now being able to maintain boost without bad throttling over the next few days; if so, then looks like j95 has identified the cause!
  22. There's a program called "Kepler BIOS Tweaker", but I don't know how to use it, and I'm sure there's scope for messing it up if you don't know what you're doing - essentially you'd be writing your overclocks directly into the vBIOS. Also, I'm not sure if by modifying it yourself you would create incompatibilities with your laptop. Have a google around "Kepler BIOS Tweaker" to learn more than I know.
  23. If your current vBIOS doesn't let you undervolt using NVidia Inspector, then yes the modified vBIOS will allow you to undervolt thereby reducing temperatures and keeping your clocks at stock - you'll only be able to undervolt so far depending on luck of the draw with the silicon quality of your particular unit.
  24. There's not one listed here for the 760M (1st page of this thread), but there are listings for Alienware 765M modified vBIOS. According to notebookcheck.net the 760M & 765M are the same core (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M - NotebookCheck.net Tech), but just with different clock speeds, so there's a possibility that you could flash a 765M vBIOS to it - but whether it will be stable at the default higher clock is a mystery, and also I do not know if an Alienware vBIOS is compatible with an Asus laptop. If you're serious about flashing a vBIOS to it, have a google to see if other Asus and/or N56jr users have flashed their GPU with a modified vBIOS from another laptop manufacturer. You can always request your vBIOS to be modified at the following link, but I'd be a little surprised if he mods one for you (I haven't seen any new modded vBIOS's come out recently): http://forum.techinferno.com/general-notebook-discussions/4635-bios-vbios-modification-request-thread-svl7.html
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