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A note about removing the lid. Part of the benefit is the fact the IHS sits closer to the core without the glue. I would not put glue back in, especially for liquid metal.

Next week

I need to get my hands on one and have a good look.

It's funny how clevo ships the 1080 (with GDDR5x) with the stronger memory controller phase layout (160 amps lol) over the 1070 which has (the more power hungry) GDDR5.

http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/csd87350q5d.pdf VRMs on our 1080 PCB.

After testing, adding in the VRMs does cut the card from dying at 1.2v with a memory over volt but is only required at the utter extreme end of benchmarking.

It depends if the cirucitry allows it, the 880M through 680M did, but AMD cards are no where near as simple.

It sure was, but it has been broken up and sold while I decide what beast I want to construct next. Either 16F4 based or alienware 17 is currently my decision I think.

You can order the heatsink fairly easily and the 7970M will still be quite a bit faster.

Yes it does but I get a blank screen after the loading screen when the drivers are installed.

Unlocked bios lets you do that no problem. The problem is all the outputs are hard wired into the intel chip so you wont get much out of it.

Yes at this point I have to say at least the clevo 770M is not completely compatible with the 16F3.

Ok, looks like the MSI vbios I found on this site is different to the one I found. Find it attached. With the one on here I get similar behaviour to the stock clevo vbios. With the one I have attached I get the behaviour I was describing. NVM. The one on here is a dell. so clevo and dell vbios are similar, the MSI one gives me the crashes :/ 770MSI.zip

So I have recently put together a 16F3 with 3740qm and 770M (clevo). On the stock vbios I have issues getting the drivers installed and going from the loading screen to a black screen. The device manager also complains about a resource conflict between the 770M and the HD4000. So I flashed the 11E0 MSI Vbios on and the drivers will install. However if I start a 3d application I get a driver crash, sometimes this reboots the machine with a BSOD, sometimes it recovers. If it recovers the 770M is permanently on but 3d works just fine. Anyone had this issue?

Wrong, the major difference is the high voltage memory at 1.25ghz vs the 900mhz on the 680M, this also means it will likely clock up to 1.5-1.6ghz, this will make a huge difference in certain situations and especially when overclocking.

It looks like your ram may not be capable of that speeds. Never set an XMP profile with a set memory speed, it will never turn on with this setting combination. Have you tried doing a deep power off? Leave the CMOS battery out for a couple of hours. Otherwise some 1600mhz ram may be able to boot, or maybe just a single stick of the 1333mhz ram?

Can you unlock the windows 8 bios for the GT60? http://www.msi.com/product/nb/GT60-0NE.html#/?div=BIOS Also would this be compatible with the 16F3 barebone?

It's either for the LEDs or a holdover from the Expresscard slot on the GT660 series.

I notice no file for the 16F3, any particular reason? Are people just using the GT60 bios? - - - Updated - - - This was the method I came up with to do it on my 16F2 and worked, I think it works on the 3rd gen machines too. Thanks for the credit when posting it stas..........

It's the same chip but more shaders activated

Cheers man, flashed without issue, just a shame there are no real meaty options to change stuff *shrugs* Was worth a shot.

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MSI usually removes their SLI connector from their cards so i'm not surprised it does not support SLi.

I take it that flashing the Dell vbios on the clevo is a bad idea?

My best so far at 1087/2600: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M video card benchmark result - Intel® Core i7-3740QM CPU @ 2.70GHz,CLEVO P170EM score: P8651 3DMarks And no, it is actually a P150EM still, just running a P170EM bios to get XTU control.