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Player2

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  1. Nice . That's like 2.5 times my 770m . Man I can't wait to get my hands on one of these cards.
  2. Sorry miss understood you. My gpu comes on as soon as I boot my laptop . It shows in hwinfo and msi afterburner and nvidia inspector. I can change all settings in invidia inspector . Without even ever starting a game. At first mine wasn't on either. In hwinfo I set it to wake gpu on boot and wake gpu on boot extended. Try checkmarking both boxes in hwinfo for wake gpu.
  3. I haven't messed with cpu overclocking yet. I have the 4800mq and with single graphics card 770m I don't think I really need too. Can't help you on that one. Called hid evolution and got message saying business hours are from 900 to 500 mon-fri . Closed for orders sat and sun. I'm going to have to sneak away during work on Monday long enough to make order.haha. On a different note what are you guys who have ordered the 980m and 970m doing for heatsink padding on the back of your cards. Are you just leaving it with nothing on back or do you guys put something there somehow. I know the cards only come with x - brace on the back. ? And if I have them send the correct screws for the x-bracket I can just screw my heatsink to card no problems right ?.
  4. Hey what invidia driver are you using right now. 4709
  5. Yea I will try with windows 7 in optimus mode first because I really don't want to erase my computer and start over . I'm confident it will work ok. If not i will probably be hitting you up on how to install 8.1 in the eufi to make the card work. I wonder If hid evolution is open on weekend so I can call them. Will try around 10 and see what happens.
  6. Finally got optimus working without issue. Set hwinfo to wake gpu on boot and set global settings to prefer nvidia gpu . Seems to load games fine and even holds my overclock rock solid while gaming. So my computer seems to work Tha same as it was in dedicated mode.im sure performance isn't exactly as same as dedicated but as far as gaming I can't really tell the difference. Maybe for benching there is a difference. Anyhow the next step in my master plan is to decide where to buy the 980m. I am confident enough now that if I buy the 980m I will be able to install in my system with little to no issues if I use optimus and my factory windows 7 install.[emoji4]
  7. Do you have 120hz screen or your optimus just does not work?
  8. From the information going around you can use windows 7 but you have to use the laptop in optimus mode. If you want to run in dedicated mode you have to use win 8.1 full uefi mode.
  9. I wonder if someone was to buy a 980m from them if they would share their secrets on how to make it work with windows 7 and 120hz screen.
  10. I put plenty of paste. The problem with the heatsink not working properly was when I put it up to card it wasn't sitting on the die flat.one side was touching and one was way off die so heat sink was warped really bad or it got bent somehow. So I was handling card and messing with heatsink to get a nice flush fit. I got the heatsink finally to fit card almost perfect but all the handling of card with bare hands I must of shorted it out somehow. I'll wear gloves next time.[emoji12]
  11. No I literally smoked it. The last time I changed heatsink and put it back in I started a game and it just went crazy screen and I could smell smoke or burnt electronics whatever you want to call it. So I just shut off computer and pulled card. Put my 770m back in and computer is fine thank goodness . I was kind of carelessly Handling the card so it's nobody's fault but my own. Time to move on to better things.
  12. Yea that's to bad nbr is down because most of the information on 980m and 970m in alienware 17 was coming from . I fried my 780m from messing with it to much. Swapping x brackets changing heatsinks . And Handling to much I guess. Pulling out with battery still plugged it twice. Put my 770m back in and I'm good for now. But I'm looking to get the 980m here pretty quick .once you have a little taste of performance it's hard to go back to a slower card. It's like riding a Yamaha r1 street bike and crashing it and then have to go back to driving your Honda civic.[emoji4]
  13. Yea I will play around to see what I can find out. The reason I switched off optimus the first day I got my computer was because of this same thing. First game I installed on day one wouldn't use my dgpu so I switched to dedicated mode an never had a problem since. So I'm guessing if I restore my computer to the day it was brand new I will still be in the same boat. I will do some reading around and googling to see what I can come up with. Thanks again robbo for your help
  14. Ok I loaded up gpuz and started game and then quit it's still shows 0 for gpu load memory controller load and video engine load. Memory usage 0 . So I'm guessing it's not even starting the nvidia gpu.
  15. Thanks for help robbo. I tried under global settings and Set nvidia processor for prefered grapghics processor and no dice. Also set program settings for nvidia gpu for specific game and no dice either. It loads my games with no errors it's just everything is is like 4 frame per second so it has to be using integrated grapghics. Is nvidia control panel always running or do I have to make it boot up with my computer
  16. Maybe your overclocking software or osd is causing conflicts. Edit - this post was supposed to be before yours but I guess you beat me to the reply button
  17. Mine seams to behave fine I optimus I just can't play games . But I'll read up on optimus and figure it out. I start a game like shadow of mordor ar far cry 4 and it actually starts the game but it runs it at 4 or 5 frames per second. Kinda crazy looking.
  18. The crazy part is we spend a lot of time tweaking our systems to run a certain way to get it to do what we want and then all of a sudden throw a rench in the mix like optimus and the computer goes into cardiac arrest.
  19. That's not good. Maybe it's your computer's way of telling you to put it back into dedicated mode.
  20. Yea I thought the computer was smart enough to figure out when it needed to use the dgpu or igpu . Lol.
  21. I'm switching back to dedicated graphics and will cross that optimus bridge when I have to. I heard hidevolution got a alienware 17 with 980m and 120hz screen and windows 7 for sell. So hopefully we will be able to do this 980m upgrade after all with out having to mess with optimus .
  22. Thanks for elaborating . I added farcry 4 to programs settings . selected high performance nvidia processor bit it still uses igpu.
  23. I know this defeats the purpose of optimus but is there a way to permantly turn on dgpu in optimus so it would work without issues but still have optimus so one could use the 980m.
  24. You wouldn't mind elaborating on that would you.[emoji4]
  25. I'd would be ok with optimus to if I knew how to make my games work. I bought my laptop over a year ago and turned of optimus 30 minutes after the firs time I ever turned my laptop on and never switched optimus back on again. Well today I switched it back on just to see what it would be like and when I try to play a game it only uses the igpu. It shows both igpu and dgpu in device manager . How do you make the games use the dgpu for games when your in optimus. Is that why people don't like optimus because it don't work.
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