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Im using the VBIOS that widezu69 made available in another post here: [Guide] 580m GTX throtting fix. No need to modify system Bios. When i installed the card it smelled very badly of burnt electronics but i thought nothing of it....Im going to try and reach Dell for a replacement but anyone who has dealt with their tech support knows that its almost impossible to get good help from them...they will say "its your drivers" or "u need to reinstall windows" to date I have a bluetooth module that has never worked right from delivery and they refuse to replace it pointing to my windows installation as the issue....I'm fairly educated and have over 12 years experience in IT Support - I'm a harware compatibility tech for Western Digital's product testing labs, i know hardware fairly well and can tell when something is behaving oddly.....(sorry about the rant but I've had many many bad experiences with Dell support over the years) Thanks everyone for your input and direction - it is much appreciated.....in the meantime I'm going to roll back to previous drivers.

Link to log is below, I grabbed it during a vantage run - driver version is 301.42 thanks for the help https://www.box.com/s/8fd8214a90ee766fe438

anyone out there in T|I land care to lend a hand resolving this I'm assuming drivers is as good a place as any to start?

Recently grabbed this benchmark on my system...upgraded to the GTX580m and so far I am beyond unhappy with the performance gains over the 560m, does this seem right? I have overclocked as far as I can go and even used the modified VBIOS to eliminate the notorious throttling issue but still just feel disappointed - feedback is appreciated.

Still no Joy on this...very disappointing results from this upgrade, anyone have some scores or benchmarks so I can see what the card averages ?

Ok so, i was little impatient and did my upgrade without snapping pics, it was fairly straight forward and I was able to re-use everything from my GTX560m cooling setup.....there is however 1 problem....I just don't see the big performance increase that most people said I would get. Frame rate increases are minimal at best (maybe 5-10 fps max) I'm listing some ball park averages below....any feedback would be nice. It might be worth noting that when i opened the ESD bag prior to the upgrade the GTX 580m smelled very distinctly like burnt electronics (if you've smelled it you know it) is it possible there is a defect with this particular card? BF3 - "HIGH" preset no Vsync(varies by map of course) avg 50-60FPS @ 1600x900 Diablo3 - all maxed no vsync avg 70-80fps (some parts drop as low as 45fps) Raccoon City - all maxed no Vsync avg 40-50fps Mass Effect 3 - all settings maxed vsync off steady at 60fps

The card should arrive tomorrow, I'll keep an eye open for the yellow plastic thing you mentioned - is it relevant for a single card configuration? I'll do my best to grab pics each step of the way and post the walk through in this forum as I'm sure I'm not the only one interested in this upgrade. Thanks to everyone for the advice.

Thanks so much for all the links...I'll start digging into the research. On a separate note - I have some thermal paste left over from my coolermaster v6 CPU cooler i recently installed. Any objections to using that?

Alright it's official, my gtx580 is being shipped w00t!...has anyone done this upgrade before? I'm looking to advice on what I'll need....obviously thermal paste, but what about anything else I might need. Also what thermal compound would you suggest? Thanks in advance all!

not sure yet, I'll inspect it and post photos as needed when I disassemble. I sorta jumped the gun, but when I saw the card listed for $350 I jumped on it - it was a good price.

That could be a problem....the heat sync and backplate from my 560m is not reusable? I did plan on buying thermal paste for the swap but failed to think about heat sync and backplate issues

Just picked up the GTX580m at a decent price for my M17xR3 - currently running the 560m....what kind of performance boost should i expect from this bad boy? can any owners out there post some FPS on a few games? Thankfully the place has a return policy so if its not really worth it then I'll scrap the whole project. Thanks for the help guys (and gals)!

worth a shot lol...looks like I'll hold out for prices to drop a bit more and buy the 580m upgrade

Does this BIOS enable voltage control\overvolt for the GPU?

Arkham City is correct, it was late LOL - I havent tried the latest patch but I did update to the beta drivers available from NVIDA that claim to "optimize" for Arkham city, Ill try the patch although it sounds like its a coding issue and not a system one. If both of you guys are pushing the 580m and gets the same frame drops then I feel a little better. Thanks all!