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Hello everyone, As the title of the thread suggests I have the chance to upgrade my Medion Erazer 6823 with a GTX 780m. According to the owner the card stems from an MSI GT60 2OD. Now I'm not 100% certain that this card would work in my Laptop which is a Ivy Bridge Based MSI Whitebook that was originally equipped with an 670mx (I think it should be the MS-16F3 Barebone but to be honest I'm not 100% certain). I know that they changed the cooling solution/heatpipe-layout when they released the 4th gen Intel-Laptops but I think that 780m and 670mx have the same PCB-Layout, so the cooling should work but my temps could be slightly higher. Am I right at this point? What else will I need to get the card working properly (which vBios, modded driver inf, etc.?) Thank you very much for your help in advance!

I'm pretty sure that this stems from a dying GPU. nVidia had problems with the soldering of its GPUs back when the 8xxx series was released as lead was forbidden as a part of the solder. The joint would sometimes break due to thermal conditions if I remember correctly. I had the same issue with my Dell XPS m1330 running a 8400m GS. Back then the service technician told me that even without warranty they would fix it as this was nVidias fault and that nVidia would pay for the replacement anyway. So you might be lucky and get that thing fixed for free by MSI? Would give it a try and call the service hotline.

Yeah, I'll definitely try that once I have enough posts to download the mod vbios. And I will give some feedback here. Might help others with similar problems. I will have to download the MSI 670MX vbios as my card has 1.5GB vram, right? I suppose the Clevo one (3GB) would not work? Using legacy mode is fine for me. I don't see any difference to UEFI mode. Is there one?

No I'm not on battery. On battery mem clock would be too low as well, right? After like 4 new installs of Windows I found at least kind of a solution: I switched the BIOS from UEFI to legacy an reinstalled Win 8. Now, Afterburner would still always show the GPU at 324MHz in every case (idle, load, etc.), but GPU-Z gives real values (135MHz idle, 614MHz load). Even OC works (up to +135Mhz ;-) ). I verified that by 3D Mark 11 scores and Heaven Benchmark. However, if the notebook is set to hybernate or stand-by and then restarted the GPU will always clock only up to 601MHz in load cases. Overclocking is impossible then, only underclocking works. GPU-Z render test now gives 614MHz and idle clocks are correct as well. So there are some issues left, but its nothing I can't live with. :-) I'd just love to know what the reason for all that trouble might be :-D And thanks for the help so far!! :-)

It's the system's standard card. vbios according to gpu-z: 80.04.5B.00.22 and subvendor is MSI

Hi everyone, the GPU in my system seems to have some issues. When I install a driver and do not reboot everything is fine. The GPU clocks at 614 Mhz as it is supposed to do. However, as soon as I reboot the GPU will not clock any higher than 324 Mhz while the Memory still will clock at 1400 Mhz. I also can't use tools like Afterburner to change the clock speed of the GPU. It will always run at 324 Mhz. However, the clock of the memory can still be altered. I think I tried almost everything (e.g. tried different drivers), I already reinstalled Windows (I use Win8) but the issue stayed the same. Do you guys have any suggestion what else I could try? Might the vbios of my graphics card be currupted? Could it help to flash one of svl7's unlocked ones? Any other ideas? Thanks in advance for all your help!