johnksss

OK turns out someone just fed sweclockers with our clock numbers, added a little sauce in the form of a fake GPU-Z and they made a story out of it. They have now changed the CUDA count to 1664 (-ish...LOL), exactly where it should be:

Geforce GTX*980M får 8*GB GDDR5-minne - Bärbara datorer - SweClockers.com

Exactly why I didn't want to say anything earlier.(For fear of a un welcomed debate/argument. LOL). Good work prema!

And that brings us back to where I mentioned. "Our Community"

Now I'm wondering if the scores are flubbed?

Live large my friend. Go top end sli at least once.

And this is why we have been running games at 2560x1440P on our laptops. Our version of DSR. Eats up vram like there is no tomorrow.

I wish I could confirm or deny the CUDA cores, but don't have that info. They are spot on with the clocks, but they only posted the article a few hours after we posted them here and to be exact the Turbo is 1126.5Mhz, so who knows...

Yeah. it's best to wait for the final verdict.

If i decide to run a clevo this trip, I will be at your front door.

Side note:

After doing some real numbers look up based off of what we have now. The 980M sli is in fact, damn near better than a single 980. Although we will still need to see more testing from the mobile series, but this is actually fantastic news!

My version of this is trying to catch an over clocked desktop version to be considered = to or better.

LN2/voltage mod/ desktop cpu. World record holder.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-5960X,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. RAMPAGE V EXTREME

vs this at apparently stock

These are the real world max numbers i'm talking about. So with some over clocking...that score can be obtainable. Which has never ever been done in the history of laptops. I know. I have been trying for years now.

GTX 980M: 2048 cores @1100MHz

9500 in Firestrike

GTX 970: 1664 cores @1200MHz

10300 in Firestrike

i'd say those specs are very wrong

Wouldnt it make more sense to have the same cores as GTX 970? To me it does

I don't think you understand the goal for us here. 2 980M's = 1 980. That's what I'm shooting for. So I would expect it to be better than a single 970.

You can not compare mobile to desktop (current gen) for the simple fact they have a very different power concerns.

Side note:

Would love to have the full cuda, but nothing wrong with starting out at 1664. Then like your favorite part of this...980MX.

Although that would really suck for early adopters.

Adding this to the list as well...

Sure hope that cuda part is true.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M has 2048 CUDA cores? | VideoCardz.com

I have the full list of nvflash commands from the other thread, and I've read the detailed guide. I have flashed before, knowing the syntax was never an issue.

Actually this can cause issues.

Knowing how to do it doesnt help if you already have VBIOS, incompatible with your mobo, and can't boot any devices, including windows...

This guide line was going off of "if" you could get back into windows.

We all run the risk of flashing an incompatible vbios. Which isn't a problem for those who have a recovery plan in place. This has always been rule number one. And if you don't have one then you don't take chances till you get one. If you don't care then you just jump right in and start flashing.

Since i can practically recover just about anything with exception of a fail ec flash, I just flash away. In your case....not so much. You don't have a backup plan. And clevo really isn't big on re flashing nor replacing cards if they can help it. Now if your lucky and prema has a mod that allows you to see on board and dedicated at the same time. Then that would be a back up plan. If not.....best to flash one from someone who already has it.

Yep. And then you would have to.

1: Make a folder named c:\nvflash. Copy all relevant files to this folder. Make a bat file. 680M.bat. Copied the rom you are flashing. 680M.rom: In the same folder.

2: In the bat file it would read. c:\nvflash\nvflash64.exe -5 -6 680M.rom

3: If flashing in dos then use the dos version. Copy all the files to your bootable flash drive.

4: Once done, then just shut down and restart.

If all is well, the computer will reboot back into windows. And that's it.

I can flash a card in the car if need be or a starbucks.

And a single 680M is capable of speeds like..

Johnksss`s 3DMark Vantage - Performance score: 33002 marks with a GeForce GTX 680M

I always flash in windows. it's way faster when im doing vbios testing. And when it doesn't boot, I just pull the cards and boot sg graphics then flash the cards one at a time with a working vbios.

If you still have the card you can try and see if it will go to windows. If it does, then we can re flash it.

The problem with that is.. It takes someone else willing to "experiment" to "make" it work. How do you think these mods get made?

I would ask someone like prema to see if you can even go higher on gpu.

As I scroll up. You know you could have re flashed your card while in windows right? Would have been real simple to do.

Also, what state are you in? Some may just flash it for you.

are you suggesting I invest thousands of dollars and buy another high end gaming laptop, such as alienware, as a fail-safe for the remote possibility of having another soft-brick, for the 2nd time in a row?

Because if you are - for the cost of alienware I could send soft bricked card to vendor repair about 20 times, or just buy 4-5 spare video cards....

OK, you know this sounds ridiculous right?

And if you had an Alienware they would have done the whole thing for free! Or you would have recovered it for free!

And if you didn't have a spare laptop LAYING around (1 capable of flashing a mxm 3.0 card), then you will keep spending money my friend or quit flashing for fear of a failed attempt.

Thanks for your reply. I do accept the risks of flashing vbios and that's why I flashed it. I'm not blaming anybody, but I do need to have an idea how much risk exactly am I taking because as I just found out it is costly to fix....In my experience, firmware devs are always super-careful and cautious about the stuff they release and they put it through very thorough testing before release, because they understand bad firmware can permanently brick an expensive chipset. The flash I did was successful, it did not fail and the VBIOS I used is indeed listed under Clevo and GTX 680M, which is the hardware I have. Despite that my card was bricked, and that is why what happened to me caught me by surprise and raised a red flag, making me ask questions before I attempt flashing mods from this thread again. I just need to understand what is the amount of risk I'm taking, because if it goes south again, it's another $150, 2 weeks and like you said - the vendor may not even agree to help me out anymore.

To answer your question - I have not changed any BIOS settings at all, boot logo or otherwise. The only thing I did is change the boot sequence to set USB stick to be first boot device, before I flashed. I'm also not quite sure how you concluded my BIOS didn't POST - there was a couple of beeps on startup and then it went to NVIDIA MXM VBIOS screen. Normally my BIOS doesnt display much besides the same initial screen I'm still getting and goes straight to Windows logo after that.

Anyways, I would appreciate a comment from the dev about risks of flashing "Clevo 680m - 80.04.29.00.01 'OCedition' revised_01" VBIOS to my Clevo P150HM, instead of 80.04.29.00.01 stock, which is what I'm considering trying when I get my card back. Also, if there is an alternative way to get out of this - please share.

Yes. You can get a machine that can run sg mode or you get a second machine that can run sg mode. That's about it. And since your card was soft bricked. Pretty hard to actually hard brick a card vbios flashing it.

Would need a better explanation of exactly what happen from start to end, before rendering some form of an answer to your question though. It bricked really does not explain anything....

Are there risk to flashing... Sure, there is always risk, but if you do everything right and have the right file then the risk is very minimal.

You could have probably blind flashed your card if it would read a flash drive, but not 100 percent on that. Auto reading part with that machine.

alternative way. Get another machine you can flash mxm cards in. Since some of us have alienwares, it's pretty darn easy to never have a permanent "soft" ( Meaning all flashes are recoverable) bricked card.

Way to much going on in here. .

@Anil Kumar Your best bet is to send your card to some one for flashing and have them ship it back or go to a computer store that has a machine laying around that can flash your card. For get soldering. Your card isn't hard bricked it's soft bricked. Very easy to recover from with the right tools.

If that were the case. Disable your igpu?

Sure, it's in the vbios because we did not test for 3d. We did not have a 3d setup for testing nor an sli setup for testing.

And using your vbios is still going to bring the same exact changes as the modded one will. And 3d will not work again.

Like i mentioned earlier. I think I may know why, but will need to talk it over with him and see what we will do about it.

with my 880 stock bios it should work or not? i mean its the stock original one..

They all started from a stock original vbios my friend.

I do not own a 3d display or 880m setup so no way to guarantee that would even work in the end. That would become a trial and error sort of thing. I have an idea or two, but would need to talk with svl7 on it.

1025V, Are you sure that is even enough voltage? I'm thinking it's not enough.

john or svl7 i tested something.

On every Alienware with 120HZ display 3D:

With vbios mod on battery = crash and freeze within 5 seconds display turn off and on and 3 second later it shutdown.

With stock vbios on battery = everything ok

tested with same driver.

That could very well be true, since we did not have a system with 3d display. And I never thought to test it with my 3d enabled tv either.

Hi johnksss , i wont have another HD , and mine are on RAID 0,what`s the ideia?

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The folks at Eurocom, is telling me that with the GTX880M Panter 5 do not work in 3D mode on the laptop, but if you plug in a tv works, ever heard of that?

Are advising me to take two 780m to play in 3D

No, but that does not mean it's not true. Have you tried this yet? If you don't have a 3d enabled tv then you may need to go visit a friend or computer store that will allow you to connect your laptop.

edit:

Depending on where you live, you can go to the store and buy an external esata drive. This type of drive is bootable as a hard drive.

And then it all good?

Who did that to GTX880M 8GB unlocked bios?

Was you or was SLI7?

If it was you, you can unlock my BIOS that came with my GPU, Unlocking the limits of core memories, and voltage already glad, because I believe that would be stable, my GTX880M has a different serial number because I think she accused as a generic video card in the 3dmark site after I contacted them, I added them to their records and now accuses of gtx880m, ie bios my board is probably different from bios gtx880m that you guys used to make this bios unlocked.

Its unlock my bios?

link below my original bios.

GK104.rom (166,50 KB) - uploaded.net

Your private messages are full johnksss , can`t send private menssages anymore :x

We still have a few ideas, but will need you to do that last post I posted.

Also load one game that crashes as well.

You crash on anything trying to run physics. Anything not using physics you seem to alright, but to rule this out, you need to start fresh and without all them other programs installed. That's why the instructions for a different hard drive if you have one. This way you can go right back to the original one if that does not work.

Install new drive

Install windows 7

install drivers and dot net updates

Install nvidia drivers

Install 3dmark11 and run test. If it then crashes, it might be time to ditch the card and move on.

Long term use will fry the voltage regulators.

Over clocked can also fry the voltage regulators.

How do I know you ask?. I did it already.

It's why i really never use it anymore. Light use is fine, but using it to push ones card beyond it's limits is asking for trouble.

Future reference. Furmark does not need heat to fry your card.

LOL weird conversation

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We are doing teamviewer to see if i can figure out what is wrong with his machine.

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