Razorfiend

You probably don't want to mess with the TDP, I just changed the voltage in the powerplay tab and that will change the voltage at the highest step so once you OC over 800/1200 it automatically jumps to that voltage. Sorry about the delayed response, but my posts have to be looked at by a moderator before they appear because I'm a new member.

Looks good, I hope it works at least as well for you as it did for me, be sure to let me know what kind of numbers you get!

Are you sure you are trying to extract the 7970m bios and not the 8650m/7650m bios ? I get a similar error message in GPU-Z if I don't switch from the 8650m, which is selected by default to the 7970m. On the 7970m it should display a bios version. I can't see the image you posted because I haven't made 5 posts yet and thus can't view images.

I didn't download a Vbios, I extracted my own vbios by using GPU-Z (GPU-Z Video card GPU Information Utility) and then I modified it by using VBE7.0.0.7b (VBE7 - vBIOS Editor for Radeon HD 7000 series cards | TechPowerUp Forums), and Re-flashed the new BIOS using ATIWinflash (Download ATI Winflash 2.6.7 | techPowerUp), and then overclocked it with MSI Afterburner. Keep in mind you cannot modify the clocks using afterburner until you disable ULPS by doing this: ULPS Open Windows "regedit" and go to hkey_local_machine system, ControlSet001 control, class 4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318 000 folder in registry editor you want enableulps values 1 change to 0 and enableulps_na 1 change to 0, folder 002 enableulps change from 1 to 0, restart the laptop now you can use MSI Afterburner Also after you set all this up you probably want to download Speedfan (SpeedFan - Access temperature sensor in your computer) to monitor temperatures and voltages. When you are modifying the bios you have the option of changing the clocks and voltages, but I'd recommend changing only the voltages (gradually 0.025v at a time) and then overclocking in afterburner until you find a stable state, after you have tested extensively you can risk changing both if you like. My card is crappy, I'm pretty interested to see what people who got cards from a good batch can achieve in terms of clocks/benchmarks! In addendum I'd like to say that after testing my card extensively yesterday 1.1v proved to be unstable, I re-flashed to 1.05v and dropped the clocks to 980/1500, I'm still getting pretty amazing results though with the 13.30 drivers.(AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - AMD A10-5750M,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16FK and AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - AMD A10-5750M,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16FK). I'm going to be stress testing my card today at 980/1500 to see if it holds up to a whole day of punishment, if not I'll be dropping the clocks further until I find a point at which it doesn't crash even after a whole day of operation.

I'm copying and pasting it verbatim from my post in the MSI GX60 Owners Lounge over at nbr. I wanted to get as much out of my GX60 as possible, I don't have access the A8 ES Chips, so I got the A10-5750m which is widely available. Other than that, and new memory chips my GX60 1AC is unmodified. I have the MSI GX60 1AC (Changed the 4600m for the 5750m). I recently decided to flash my vBIOS to increase the voltage and allow higher overclocks, I haven't been able to find any good guides that explain how to do it so the information I used was taken from many places and combined. I extracted the bios with GPU-Z, modified it with VBE7.0.0.7b and flashed it with ATIwinflash. The Radeon 7970m in my laptop was locked at 1.0v, and with this voltage using MSI Afterburner I was not able to go above 935 core, 1525 memory without crashing. I've read reports of people going up to 1000/1500 on stock voltage and envy them very much as they must have gotten great cards, while mine is very mediocre. I opted to tinker with the voltage to get some more juice out of it, I changed the voltage from 1.0 to 1.05v and this has allowed me to push the card to 980 core, 1500 memory and run stable, the temperature sits around 84c while gaming. Obligatory comparison benchmarks: AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - AMD A10-5750M,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16FK (935/1525) AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - AMD A10-5750M,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16FK(1000/1500 --> the card completes the benchmark at these settings, but I have to drop it to 980/1500 if I want true stability, for example at 1000/1500 the video driver crashes occasionally and will eventually cause a BSOD if it isn't reduced, at 990 the bsod/crash is less frequent, and at 980 it is gone altogether) As you can see, overclocking and modifying the voltage to get even a small increase in core clock yields a fairly significant performance gain versus non-voltage modded stock overclocks. Now for the problems. While modifying the bios I noticed something strange, it seems that the VBE7 tool reads the stock voltage at the highest power state (800/1200) as being 1.075v instead of 1.000v (when you first open the vbios you see 1.075 as the highest step), if you change that top voltage to 1.050 and flash it, then there are no issues, the voltage goes up to 1.050 after overclocking via MSI Afterburner (verified with speedfan). HOWEVER if you leave the voltage at 1.075, or even flash to 1.050 and then modify the 1.050 bios to 1.075 when you flash the new bios which is supposed to give the card 1.075v at the highest step you end up with 1.000v again, it seems that you cannot flash a 1.075v voltage using this tool to modify the bios for some reason. Does anyone know a solution to this problem ? I would like to push my card to 1.075v to get over the 1000/1500 barrier, but don't want to risk going all the way to 1.1v which is the next step up. I would be willing to try 1.1v if the highest step in the Powerplay scheme was not also synchronized with the boot voltage (when you change the powerplay 800/1200 voltage it also changes the boot voltage to the same number). If there was some way to modify the 2 values independently then 1.1 would be safer, as the card would not enter that state until it was OCed via MSI Afterburner in Windows, at which point it would crash (or burn, hopefully the former) and then upon restart you could just flash a lower voltage bios (assuming you didn't fry your card). Edit: I opted to just take the leap to 1.1v and skip 1.075v altogether and so far it has worked pretty well: AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - AMD A10-5750M,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16FK (1040/1450), it runs at around 84-86c which is pretty hot but it seems stable. I got a crash at 1040/1550 so I'm guessing the memory may be holding me back. I don't have time to test it extensively right now and find the optimal numbers but I will later tonight. Edit 2: I did some more testing and have gotten some pretty amazing results. I downgraded my driver to 13.30 beta rc1 and ran tests. I discovered that my old stable settings (1040/1450) were crashing 3dmark11, while with the newer drivers they were not. I opted to drop the clocks gradually until I came to 1000/1400 and got through the whole benchmark, the results are pretty ridiculous: (I now hold the top spot for similar graphics configs) AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - AMD A10-5750M,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16FK I'm getting near 8k graphics and over 3k physics now. I think the core clock can be increased further at the cost of memory, I'll optimize it further when I have time and post the results.

Should I risk flashing my MSI-GX60 A1C ? It is the older edition that came with the A8-4600 but I changed it to the A10-5750. I'm hoping that I can disable Enduro and enable mantle support in thief.