tanzmiester

Just now, Prema said:

 

Is it an LVDS screen?

no, it's G-sync IPS EDP model, the card came from gt62vr.

1 minute ago, Prema said:

This model GPU won't boot on any system without the wire...

i have tried to install it in gt72s, it booted, but image was distorted, does it have to do anything with that missing wire?

3 minutes ago, Prema said:

 

That's the loop to fool the vBIOS that an EC signal is present...wonder who told them that.



Your own P870DM is running on my modded EC, otherwise it would throttle like no tomorrow.

 

@Prema, so it's impossible to ran this 1070 gpu in Clevo without that hardmod? even with Premamod?

Just now, Mr. Fox said:

Good catch @tanzmiester  That's really weird. I have never seen anything like that on a MXM card before.

i know in gt72vr there is no such wire on 1070 gtx,

that picture with the wire came from "upgradeyourlaptop" at ebay and also can be seen in the Eurocom upgrade video

On 10/2/2016 at 11:23 AM, Prema said:

 

That's just a Clevo 1070...it's better to use the MSI version to upgrade older units.

@Prema, do you know why that wire is needed?

hi everyone! any news about m18x + 980m throttling fix? thanks!

yes, like I said it throttles at 90, replacing CPU heatsink help to get it down by 8C and I have gained 9300+ slight OC, still can't understand how people get 10500 out of it!

And you have set the system to performance mode under Windows power options?!

yes

it seems I had a bad heatsink for the CPU, replaced it with another one and got -8C and +1000 cpu score. AW18 indeed throttles at 90C.

seems like I had a bad heatsink, replaced it with another one and got 9500! still not much, will try windows7

nothing there

can that be disabled in Alienware 18?

Dude do a FS run... Also that Physics score is atrocious.. Is your 4910MQ throttling? Even my 3630QM can get a higher score...

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i have been fighting with the physics score, no luck, there is no throttling, cpu util reaches 85-90% during benchmark, I can do nothing to improve the CPU score. I think Windows 8.1 could be the problem.

any ideas?

Dell vBioses for 9xxm are available as download from Dell support website, thanks to Dell!

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thanks to prema for the unleashed power of my aw18 970m sli setup

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/10341773

no OV, cards hardly reach 70C.

only flashing the 2nd card with slave bios turns the fan on, not even needed to flash the system bios

it seems I can not get over 8500 physics score in 3d mark 11, OC'ed and not. I see people scoring up to 10500 on this CPU.

anybody has any idea? already tried different memory modules, no throttling occurs as well.

thanks!

the problem was in the motherboard, was replaced by dell and now all is fine, except that the new motherboard have weird colors of backlight... will have to RMA it again it seems.

Maybe you have changed the driver? which one you are on?

hey m8s! have you seen this?

Alienware 18 Gaming Laptop | Dell

Alienware now is offering 18" models again, and what do you know? Dell mxm 980m and 970m GPU's!

Alienware 18 Gaming Laptop | Dell

does anybody know if m290x is compatible with Clevo 37xsm-a model?

mine m290x card is from Alienware 18 and after flashing with 370sm Vbios i get fans on full in 20seconds after POST and it starts beeping and shuts down after 2-3minutes.

Prema, maybe you can help?

I'd put my money on the left that doesn't have missing parts. They probably did a revision because the original design accidentally wasn't crippled enough.

haha, but it does look like the ellements are of a different brand, more is not always better maybe?

perhaps someone could have unlocked it, having the machine on hand? Slv7, Prema?

i was wondering why nobody yet unlocked the Alienware 17 and 18 system bios hidden options? and possibility of making a 660watt psu mod?

both have samsung memory, the definition at one on the left one got washed away by thermal pads.

the card on the right is a newer version, btw