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guys finally i have a question and i need some help i have liquid ultra on my both 780m's, the temps in idle are around 47°C and with non overclock both cards reach in games (like BF4 or Skyrim, whatelse) 76°C max. its all okay so far.

the point is, i am able to run the second card on 1050mhz Core with +37,5mv Stable. but on the first card, for already 950mhz i need like +50mv or +62,5mv to get it stable so i have to run separately overclocks ;( what is your opinion to that?

for me it sounds like the first card is just a bad modell.

and now the second point!

with these overclocks i listed above, the second card runs cool at 78-80°C max BF4. but the first card wich clock and voltage is pretty lower, runs at 82-85°C O.O?? (u must recognize that i have an alienware 18 and the first card has a lot more room to let the heat out while the second card is sitting nearly the cpu so there is more heat) but how can the first card be hotter? maybe some of u have ideas? and of course the heatsinks are installed right and i used exactly the same ammount of liquid ultra on both GPU's.

sry for the long text and thanks.

i have an AW18 but the steps to flash are the same. just care if u run sli, then u have to flash separately.

http://forum.techinferno.com/nvidia-video-cards/2166-%5Bguide%5D-nvidia-vbios-flashing.html

this will have all information u need for flashing your 780m (; but be carefull!

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Hello and thank you ahead of time,

Recently I purchased a MSI GT70 Dominator Pro laptop with a nVidia GeForce GTX 880m graphics card in it, and i have been having some issues that I believe are all heat related. While gaming primarily in World of Warcraft ocasionally when there is a lot of things on the screen or effects my fps will drop from 60(vsync is on) down to about 8-10 fps. During this time the fans in laptop hit high gear and abfter about 20-30 seconds all is well and I'm back to my 60fps. Temperatures are always around the 74-76c when I check but I can see that my max at one point or another was 92-93c which is I'm guessing a cut off point for the card.

I have been scouring the Internet to find a fix for this and was curious if the unlocked vBIOS for the GTX 880m would work for my issues. I have it downloaded and am preparing to backup my current vBIO, but I have never done something like this before, and I wanted to see what you experts thing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

sounds like your card throttles down cause of temperature. the modded vbios will disable this but i think if your card is running in the 90'tees °c then you really should change your thermal paste on it!

before u flash i would put some liquid ultra thermal paste on it and watch out how high the temps are. if they are fine u can flash. but only have two 780's, i dont know that the percentage of a successfull flash on the 880m is

but if u do all steps right i think it will run fine.

so a few days ago i flashed my both 780's and its amazin! i also changed the thermalpaste from the gpu's and cpu to coolaboratory liquid ultra.

my cards running fine with 1075mhz core / 3000mhz mem (6000effective) @ +75mv. temperatures hanging arround 81°C while playing Crysis 3 Ultra Settings and 2xMSAA and i got ~65 fps avg.

i also overclocked my 4700mq to 103.5 BCLK to reach 3720mhz on the first core. all cores active it runs on 3515mhz always and temperatures are ~68-70°C an full load. (:

hey. of course if the HDMI slot supports 120Hz u will be able to plug in a 120Hz monitor but i cant say it to 100%.

i remember if i bought my vg248 144hz for my AW18, first time i only had a hdmi cable and i wasnt able to run it at 144Hz, so i bought an mDP cable for it.

i think u just need a monitor wich supports 120Hz on HDMI and not only on mDP.

hey guys. i heard that upgrading dual 780m to dual 880m on alienware is no problem. but could it work with dual 980m to? would be interesting (:

but then i think my 4700mq will limit these cards :S

if u buy an alienware u didnt pay only for the chassis. i decided to alienware because the chassis, ull never find this on another notebook and u got also custom alienware colored chassis light.

but that s not the only one. the cooling solutions in alienware laptops are one of the best overall i think.u know what i mean? if i see a sager or an clevo, i just see a normal gaming notebook but if i see an alienware, this is made for enthusiastic gaming and overclocking! thats why i decided to alienware

of course it can be the boost technology. maybe u flash your vbios to the modded one? i heard it disables boost and u can overclock fine.

great work mr.fox (: but i think u are the only one who made a monster psu like this ;D whats about the heatsink? how warm it is? i noticed that the normal 330W adapter is runnin slightly hot after hours of gaming

u ever think about installing a little fan on the heatsink? just need a 12volt rail ;D

hey there. i got a 780m sli. question is, do i have to reboot after flashing the first card? or just flash the first, then the second and then reboot? thanks (;