Xonar

New Specializations in Armored Kill?

These popped up on my battlelog, require level 37 they say.

I honestly can say I have more faith in you than I do in some AW tech.

previously it was not visible

i've tested the new one, no change

i only need the: System Agent (SA) Configuration

Can you try flashing the stock MSI BIOS from their website and then flashing the unlocked one? I've found that reflashing the same version without any physical changes to the BIOS will not cause it to be rewritten, regardless of what AFUDOS says. After flashing the new unlocked version, unplug your CMOS to clear the BIOS to default and the Chipset tab should appear.

Edit: I have triple checked that Chipset and SA Config is unlocked. If you cannot get it to show up after doing what I wrote above, I can try another method.

What settings were you looking for under SA Config?

for i'v install the THX ,why it seems to perform not so well as before?

There is no difference in performance. You either flashed the wrong BIOS for your notebook or you're seeing things.

gt70: Chipset feature isn't enabled only main,advanced,boot,security and save&exit....

Glad to see everything was smooth.

Was the Chipset menu visible BEFORE?

I have uploaded a new one and hopefully it'll be enabled.

Thanks for testing Sephfire.

Best of luck to you Tony and Dragon, errr Long

It's too coincidental that a BIOS flash would brick your notebook as you were one of my first testers in the MSI and we did a lot of flashing back then and nothing serious ever happened.

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@thanats007 where'd you get the copper shim from? I might try this on my M18x. Thanks for the pics + test results!

EBay has them but you usually need to buy 5+ at a time. $1 a pop IIRC.

Edit: I see goldpart has them 2 for $1 now shipped from China. Prices have gone down a little.

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Hello all, first post!

I'm John from Washington. This seemed as good a place as any to introduce myself; thanks to Xonar for making the thread. I've lurked NBR for awhile but this seems to be more my type of environment.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm headed over to the 420 thread.

Welcome John!

Nice to see you here, I'm sure you'll find this community a lot chiller.

Grrr... My prospects are looking grimmer for the 680M in the 16F2. Worst case scenario is a Dell 680M 2GB card.

Svl7, do you know if the Dell OC'ing lockout is vBIOS related? Could it be circumvented in a system other than an AW?

Hopefully the MSI vBIOS will play nice inside the 16F2, if not we can always ask @svl7 and see if he could disable the optimus bit.

Thanks for testing pau1ow!

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Hm the pricing is kind of steep compared to 7970M. In any case I'm looking forward to see the performance!

Yes and that is my current dilemma. Perhaps if I give it a couple months the choice will be clearer, but I can't stand the wait.

This generation reminds me of the jump we saw from nvidia with the 7xxx to 8xxx. Such a massive increase in performance from both sides this time around though.

Anyways, can't wait for Friday.

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Wow nice! How much does this card cost? (Bought as a single item with cooler and essentials). I'm having trouble navigating through Eurocom website.

Thanks!

Here's Eurocom's ebay. $790 + $25 shipping for the card alone.

What is better: 680m with 4gb or 7970m?

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Stock vs. stock, it's debatable, the 680M is at most 10% better, while the 7970M is better at other things. Worth it for the price premium? Probably not.

Overclocked and overvolted, the 680M hands down.

It just adds an option in the BIOS to set RAID if you ever need it. The only difference is, once you flash the BIOS you will need to set the SATA Mode back to AHCI or else the system will try to boot in RAID0.

It's easier to unlock BIOS with RAID as many people have systems with RAID and having one for RAID and one without is pointless if you can just disable RAID.

Let's make a deal. You help me with XM OC'ing via TS by helping Kevin and I'll grab a 680M GTX once they aren't being gouged and confirmed working in the notebook. Then we can have some benching wars (David (16F2) vs. Goliath (M18x)). Currently, things don't look bright for the Clevo 680M in the 16F2. Although, I guess I could flash the MSI vBIOS and it might not have the Optimus problems?

I'm still leaning towards the 7970M as it's soooo much cheaper.

680M GTX support just means it is based off the newest BIOS that added 680M GTX. If you have a 670M/675M this ROM will work for both as long as you flash the GT70 BIOS.

I already have .30M unlocked which is the exact same as .10M, just with RAID support.

Always interested in new (good) music.

Good stuff, I loved it all. Can't say I can pick a favorite from any of the three, they we're all great.

My main genre is trance by far (vanilla trance).

But, I do love: progressive, psy/acid, Balearic, uplifting, some EDM, etc.

Basically, if it's a trance derivative that isn't straight club EDM, I like it.

TBH, I've never heard of full-on before this. Only progressive psy.

Isn't the Medion a whitebook? 1st gen had better backwards compatibility so it should work.

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I had the opportunity to see them last year. Guess it's a good thing I chose to study an extra day for finals over infected. I loved b.p. empire, converting vegetarians, supervisor, etc but i can't seem to catch on to their new stuff.

Feel free to post more, I'll definitely have a listen.

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Hah, the first day of the Steam sale hit me the hardest. Spent $38 that day and only $15 since. My wallets been pretty happy.

Thread updated with:

GT60 / GT70 -- based on .30M 0NE BIOS w/ 680M GTX support

GX740 -- based on 1.0F by request

Feedback is appreciated guys. I don't have these notebooks to test with so I can't guarantee they will work or have everything unlocked. So please let me know if there are any concerns!

The versions are in the READ ME.txt of each zip.

If you can give me a link to the original BIOS I can get one done for you.

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Not sure if I'm still interested in BF3 anymore. All the aimbots out there just killed it for me.

I know, I have yet to join a server and not see at least one person get banned for aimbotting. I was 0-9 against a player in a jet one match, sniped 9 times on Caspian from his machine gun. Unbelievable. He ended up going 52-3 in a 600 ticket Conquest match and the admins played a blind eye because he was on their team.

I didn't get premium but i will be buying armored kill. Can't wait.

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