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the evga app wouldnt let me adjust the voltage of the card. only nvinspector is allowing me to, and its simple enough to set it as a startup task to set the clocks and voltage. i had a couple of crashes, at 0.9v, but im up to 0.925 @ 941mhz and seems to hold at the temps above. wouldnt mind to be able to run at the intended boost figure of 993mhz lol. ill give it a run now with the fans at max with the panel off, and see how it does. and thanks for the help! very very much appreciated if i didnt live soo far away, would buy you a beer! and a thanks to prema for the help too! and to svl7 for the custom bios!

its on a laptop lap cooler thing. targus lap cooler, neoprene thingy with 2 fans to aid that little more. with the panel off, even furmark cant get it to 85°c now after the vbios and lowering voltage and thats the fans not flat out. but panel on it gets to 90, fans kick in and drops back to 88 and holds there. ill try hwinfo now... im sure ive already got it installed but otherwise its fn+1 flat out, and again for auto. EDIT: nah i cant adjust in hwinfo, only view the speeds they are running at. from what i can read its something of a firmware/bios restriction

nah, i cant control the fan speed. i did try through the evga precision x app, but it didnt make any changes. speedfan doesnt detect them. so its either auto or flat out. ill need to get more cool air through these vents at some point. the funny thing is, i tend not to game on the laptop much, but ive taken to make it my duty on getting it right.

ive been using furmark to test it for temps, and have read that its really not a good idea, as it pushes it right to the limits. is this a good or bad thing? lots of reviews saying dont touch the software.... i made a run of stock voltage 1v and 992mhz on 3dmark, (furmark was throttling at 93°c), 3dmark didnt even get to the last fan spin up at 90... aye i repasted both cpu and gpu with mx4 and put some more thermal pads on the, i think voltage regulartor thingy's, (cant remember their name) some were missing

ok got the flash on lol its still getting to 93°c now, but at 992mhz. theres nothing i can do now other than coming up with some extreme way to keep it cool? the air cooler just doesnt seem to want to keep it down in temps now takes a while to get to 93°c but i start to see some throttling slowely but surely. lowered the core down to 940mhz, and im bringing the voltage down little by little with nvidia inspector. down at 0.9v now and its run for an hour on furtest at 89°c with cover on, that i know is still restrictive. but when the fan kicks in to 100% it brings the temps start leveling off. been no artifacting as of yet. will find out its weak point sooner or later, and start to bring clocks back up to the standard 953mhz. think ive borked it still runs, but only gets to 405mhz now its like its on a permanent throttle. any ideas where to start? EDIT: brownpants moment over, found that nvinspector had imposed a 30fps frame limit. well, had a fright there!! more tweaking

thats the selling point of the card i thought, was to be faster than the previous? will look into it. never flashed a vbios, done a few bios's on towers, hotswapping etc when ive overclocked and corrupted the bios, but nothing like this. some research required 8-) doubt ill be overclocking right away, as just unlocking the standard potential of the card will feel like an overclock in itself

thanks for this topic, followed it to the letter almost and lowered temps to a more reasonable temp. especially my 880m. was hitting 93-94°c, now with a couple of spacers and braces brought temps down to 80odd. main point for me, was intake. with the cover off it lowered temps drastically! so cover is definitely restrictive.

ah yes, i think thats what im needing. they came from factory underclocked? bonkers! thanks for the help.

went through all the points mentioned in the sticky regarding hardware mods for cooling. opened up the vents a little more underneath (widened them). used ali tape to force air through the radiators. put spacers on the gpu mounting points to pull the plate down as flat as possible. all this has reduced the temps a good bit. with the cover off it is better again, so im still restricted on the air intake side. other than holesawing the bottom plate where the fans are, and putting a mesh over to protect fans, what else can i do? cover on temps CPU - peaked @ 69°c GPU - peaked @ 85°c cover off temps CPU - peaked @ 65°c GPU - peaked @ 79°c definitely a step in the right direction!! only problem i have now is the GPU is starting off at 849mhz, and pulling down to 810mhz. i dont think thats throttling as it happens before it gets to 60°c im running on the latest drivers. what to i need to do to bring it up to par? do i overclock? im guessing im going to be running at the stock voltage? what program can i use to find out voltages? sorry to bother you guys. just depresses me that im not getting the performance i paid for

Hi guys, stumbled across here on google. i recently bought this laptop from pcspecialist. i opted for the 880m with a 4810mq. 16gb ram, ssd and hdd the cpu doesnt seem to be an issue, it peaks at about 75-80°c depending on room temp. but the fan isnt on max setting. (stock controlled) the gpu however seems to really crank up and slowely throttles itself from the 849mhz(??) starting @ 36°c odd, and comes down to roughly 810mhz and holding then around 90-93°c although i do see times of 405mhz for split seconds randomly. the fan is at max speed even when the its stock controlled. this is with a lap cooler to aid cooling it used to be hotter, and throttling more, but ive applied mx-4 to it, (and read reviews to try icdiamond, so have some on order). ive reseated it twice, first time with the paste spreaded using a card. (old way i used to do it) didnt yeild much better results, and intels guide of a little in the center, and use mounting to spread across the die. 5 degrees lower, or less throttling going on. is there anything that can be done to get the standard 954mhz atleast from it, or even get temps to a more reasonable level?