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770M =) there's no 770MX, it's a typo !

Best options for 16F2: NVIDIA 770M and AMD 7970M (only those new gen cards work in that barebone)

Sounds like throttles issues due to the lack of power from the power adapter - typical issues we've been running into.

Getting a 240W PSU and Throttlestop 5.0 running ON in the background will sort your issues.

You can gell the 240w dell adapter cheaper there: Original Dell Netzteil PA 9E 240W MIT Netzkabel PA9E 19 5V 12 3A | eBay

and if you don't want to cut the power tip, just get a tip converter such as: DC Power Connector FOR Dell 240W Adapter TO P150HM P150EM P150SM MSI GT60 GT70 | eBay

Then you're set.

If you have the GT60/70 Ivy bridge generation, then a more powerful power supply will always help, especially if you want to overclock/overvolt your GPU. Only Haswell MSI generation are hit by the 180W power lock down due to the NOS feature.

My 2 cents: I have bricked few cards flashing from 022 to 017 vbios, so I wouldn't advise you to do so.

The 570M, 670M, 580M and 675M MSI share the same heatsink, you can use that one for the 770M, that's no problem.

You will just need to re-arrange the thermal pads position to cover all the components from the 770M. Preferably get a Clevo card, we know for sure they work OK

Then you will just need to mod the driver, and you're done!

That must give some high hopes to flingins ! Well done tucksha.

Indeed svl7 rarely disappoints!

Crazy mod I have to admit, well done!

Well done for the testing mate.

Yeah I confirm the GT60-0ne/0ND can be upgraded to the 780M using the 680M/670/675MX heatsink ! You don't really need the new heatsink design imho. Some info can be found here: [REVIEW] MSI GT60 w/ GTX 780M 4GB GDDR5

That's a good point - my GT60 got the W8 BIOS 50X but set to Legacy to get W7 installed ! I do not advise you to flash a GT60 BIOS into your GT70 mobo though

Thanks for the feedback katant, shame it does not work (and odd because it does OK on 16F3)

Hi fatant

The 780M I got is a Clevo gpu - but we all know Clevo/MSI GPUs were pretty similar since the 680M, and vbios interchangeable.

To make it work fully in the GT60, I flashed it with the MSI vbios (this enabled the Turbo Boost 2.0 and allowed O/Cing) - it worked fine with the Clevo vbios, however I did not have any TB or OC options.

Regarding the MSI vbios I am using, please drop a message to Prema - he is the only one that can sort you out - and hopefully make it work in your system - version is: 80.04.97.00.04 - apparently later version than yours.

Good luck!

It's baffling I know - like the 680M works fine in the 16F1 but does not work in the 16F2

hmmmm strange! I have tried the 780M in my 16F2 (barebone GT680) and no post!

Is 770M similar to 675MX ? Mine got pushed to 1130/1050 -> 6500 3dmark11

Any good fatant ?

Here it is: Drivers | GeForce

Make sure you got a clean W7 install - and start with Intel Chipset, reboot, Intel HD4000, reboot, 320.14 inf modded - and you should be set!

Currently benching with some overclock, more to come.

Yep fatant,

I've got the 780M installed in my GT60 currently, and at the moment, only the 320.14 drivers work out with the optimus switch - just need them and here you go. Obviously still cannot manually software overclock

Clevo, MSI vbioses work fine too.

Also make sure you totally clean both HD4000 and 780M drivers before installing any drivers - ideally a fresh W7 installation needs to be done.

edit: did you make it work (gaming, benching) at least once with any drivers ?

Yup Yup

Testing will resume tomorrow!

I will give you some proper numbers this weekend, regarding power consumption @ stock and possibly overclocked (if someone is kind enough to send me some tweaked vbios - I'm not naming anyone!)

So far it runs cool enough:

but still requires some better driver support I believe!

Yup mate I do! Will test it tonight in a GT60, and in the meantime request your kindness to send me some trial vbioses (bearing in mind I do not have a SLI system to reflash a bricked card lol)

@luxoxia

Yeah would be great - I've asked some people from MSI and they said the vbioses are still confidential so they would not share them and your version looks different that the ones we saw!

Cheers guys

Yeah I will have a look at the throttle tonight myself I suppose - strange the firmware has changed significantly I also need to get hold of the modded vbioses!

Very neat!

If you could send your vbios to SVL7, the MSI's has always been the first to be unlocked +) (probably because the GPUs were released/leaked in the first place) !

Would also be happy to test your stock vbios on my 780M!

Hope you (svl7) will sort this out for us (once again)! Must be frustrating to have such a powerful GPU and be unable to use up its full potential!

Newb question: is the 780M vbios much different than the 680M's ? Can't remember how long did it take to get the first unlocked vbios ? Or we got Saltius's (MSI Unlocked bios) at that time, which might have helped.

Cheers!