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Ethrem

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  1. The power limit is too low. But watch dogs at msaa 8x at stock is incredible. Also nvidia blocked overclocking in their later drivers. Fox's driver is a mod that allows overclocking.

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  2. Tried them. 1300MHz but the power target is still locked and my cards hit the upper 80s. Nvidia set the target so low that my 1300 drops to 800... Yet stock clocks, its 1126 the whole time. Nvidia did something stupid like the 880M

    Although at least these boost the whole time,the 880M was such a nightmare!

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  3. Careful, even with modded inf some drivers will not work for 980M. Get the latest 9xxM from nVidias site or you might just get a white flash and a black screen and if you have windows 8 or 8.1 getting into safe mode is a pain so read how to do that first. First hand experience.

    And I swear Colorado is invading. I'm in Denver by the Capitol myself.

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  4. I'll have these (980s) soon if you want Clevo dumps @svl7 since they work on any machine that is MXM 3.0b

    Hit me up.

    No, they don't need to be overclocked especially in SLI (load balancing bad drivers aside) but I'll gladly contribute the BIOS. Machine was sent yesterday to Sager, 880s going to be 980s. But I'm not going to be a Guinea pig again, I'll help any way I can except Guinea pigging.

    Don't think my M17xR1 can handle any more fussing with it before a clip or sleuthing goes poof and these cards are 720 a piece at rjtech.

    Anyway they promised before Christmas and I purchased shipping that's 3 day so it's not standard ground fare... I'll dump them if you have not gotten Clevo dumps already.

  5. You rock man. If Sager keeps dicking me around on getting my master fan replaced, I see they sell them too... 40 is steep for a fan but I can't take the squealing... Fan noise: http://youtu.be/xvaQQIKKH7Y

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  6. The bottom cover is $35 from RJTech. Just be sure to pick the right one. If unsure, just call them. They are easy to work with and know their stuff.

    Clevo Laptop Parts :: P150SM/P157SM/P170SM/P177SM :: CPU Cover Module for P15xxM/P17xxM - R&J Technology, Clevo Barebone Notebook kits, Laptop and desktop system builder

    Wonder if they have similar pricing for the P377SM-A... I've been thinking about contacting them anyway about some 970M cards but I've been hoping Sager would step up and take some responsibility and honor their warranty but don't get me started. Never again.

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  7. The thing is that I don't undervolt, I overvolt to get a stable system. I run my 880M at 1.025v all the time. The GPU is set for 993 MHz base clock with boost to 1032.5 MHz. Memory is set to 2800 MHz.

    One of these days I need to get around to doing those hard mods... I just don't want to pay 80 bucks for a replacement bottom case which is the quote Xotic got from Sager. Would be nice to actually have my cards run even 993MHz without throttling.

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  8. What if i fail flashing, or something go wrong ? is it possible to easy fix vbios if I dont have IGP?

    Depends on if your system will POST with no graphics card. Clevo machines do not as I found out the hard way so fixing a soft brick involved me taking my card and putting it in my old Alienware M17xR1 and reflashing it.

    If your machine will POST without a graphics card being detected, you make sure that your USB drive with the vbios is set as the default boot device and credit a batch file that will reflash your cards and just do it blindly.

    Last option if you can't fix it with your own machine and you don't know anyone who has an MXM machine to flash it for you, you either buy a vbios chip on eBay and fix it yourself by soldering a new chip, send the card off to someone else who is able to do the fix for you, or you see how much your manufacturer will charge you to fix your error, bearing in mind that they may void the entire system warranty and refuse to help you get a new card or they may charge you the full cost of a new card plus shipping and labor, or you'll have to buy a compatible replacement on eBay.

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  9. P150SM-A is going to support 9xx series with official BIOS update?

    Posted P15xSM-A, P17xSM-A, P370SM-A and P375SM-A stock BIOS and EC updates for GTX980M & GTX970M support in the OP.

    Mods will follow in time for availability of the cards.

    There you go, Clevo took care of you SM-A guys this time.;)

    There's your answer.

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  10. Can I also connect 3 external monitors for 1 hdmi and 2 display ports ?

    I have radeon card but I do not have chance to check if it work to have total all 4 screens.

    And next questions :

    1. - Hotkey app is better in P170SM-A or make many problems like this one in P170SM ?

    2. - "-A" models have more dependance from hotkey app or it is no difference ?

    3. Can I force by bios to use Radeon for any graphic task ?

    Those questions I can not answer for you, hopefully someone else can chime in.

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  11. I also notice that microphone is bad and not good for skype. Do you have similar experience ?

    Unfortunately yes. And that's where my irritation with the sound blaster software comes in because it throws a fit when I hook up my playstation gold wireless USB headset.

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  12. Thank You Prema ;)

    Can someone tell me about woofer - how to make it to work ?

    I don't see any difference when I set up realtek for 7.1 system and check subwoofer. So how to configure it to see that it work - np for potplayer, youtube ?

    Install sound blaster x-fi mb3, that's what made mine work. It will not do anything without it.

    With that said, its not much better than not having it, these sound systems are cheap. It's not worth the hassle if you ask me, the sound blaster software is annoying.

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  13. Posted P15xSM-A, P17xSM-A, P370SM-A and P375SM-A stock BIOS and EC updates for GTX980M & GTX970M support in the OP.

    Mods will follow in time for availability of the cards.

    There you go, Clevo took care of you SM-A guys this time. ;)

    Oh no, no P377? :(

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  14. Sounds like the vBIOS base they used for the Mod isn't compatible with your Clevo model in Legacy boot. IRC they didn't use a Clevo base to make the vB...

    That makes perfect sense, its a Dell base.

    The weird thing though is that it will work in legacy boot until you tweak with XTU, then it will either get into a start up and shut down loop (old EC) or now won't POST at all (new EC).

    It's not a big deal since I can't manage the heat of the vbios but it will be a big deal when I get the 9xx cards so I hope nVidia has a working vbios out of the box.

    Thanks Prema :)

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