mikecacho

Beast!

@Peter18x You pushed a 1429 boost that is really high for mobile. What voltage were you running?

Yeah, i already tried blind flash. When i install the drivers on the OEM card it will sometimes recognize the card and sometimes wont, the BIOS picks up the card correctly.

@J95 -- i recieved my 330w PSU to test with my R4, but i need to order a new MOBO since all the troubleshooting i tried in the past including the info you provided did not work and i am still unable to get the backlight to enable during discrete mode.

My favorite part is they have the nerve to offer the top end 17inch for 2.6k... and it is using last years tech, with the RAM, Display etc. If that is not bad enough, they are trying to bleed consumers dry with their stupid AMP. here is an option AW, allow an option of purchasing the 17inch with everything but the soldered 980m and instead allow for the amp to take its place to include the purchase of a 980 for for the 2.6k price tag (since i know you guys are greedy bastards), if we need to use the laptop as a mobile workstation then we have the HD4600, lets be real, soldered 980m or upgradable 980... Edit-------- I just noticed they allow the purchase of the AMP with the 980 for an additional $614 bringing the total to 3.2k... Unless they somehow engineer the 980m to run in a sorta hybrid SLi config with the 980... there is no reason to need both 980m and 980... If im on the road, i am still taking and using my AMP.

Nope

@godfafa Correct, it runs just fine with Optimus enabled, Modded the nvdmi.inf for the latest drivers 344.80 but I have to run Optimus to trick the OS to play nice and not throttle my card. Optimus I only lose about 1-3% performance in benchmarks. While gaming it appears to not hinder it at all, as I have done side by side comparisons and in some benchmarks (Heaven benchmark results were better than non Optimus). So ill deal with it for now, until that Dell Vbios comes available. I tried to modify the strings "tricking" it to allow Non-Optimus, but without the Optimus, there just is no way of getting valid results, or a valid recognized card, which will result in the BIOS gimping the card over extended use. - - - Updated - - - Nope, its either SG - Intel HD Enabled or nothing. IF you disabled the HD and ran PEG you will throttle after a day.

@J95 I'm not sure what Eurocom has done but the driver in this link for the R4 has ran 2 days now with no throttling and shows valid 3D Mark score, not sure what they changed exactly in the driver to make this happen but i would recommend using this driver (yes you have to use Optimus for a little longer) it works really well. Index of /support/drivers/upgradeyourlaptop/Alienware - - - Updated - - - I'm going to compare .inf side by side to see what strings they changed - - - Updated - - - It appears all they did was change the string to run the 680m as 980m so it thinks its running 680m....

@Paolo11, the addiction is real! LOL

Are you planning to be the first "test subject" because the systems have gotten worse since the release of the M18x R2 and M17x R4

Well whoever here gets the new systems with the GTX 980m best dump the Vbios so we can flash our 8gb 980m with it! - - - Updated - - - Bahaha, 4GB RAM, these guys are doing anything possible lately to save a buck.

Yes, yours is very similar, but i dont think it has to do with the OC applied since it wont start until one day later. I am trying with the Eurocom driver with Optimus, since it gives me valid scores, i want to see if it happens tomorrow. If so then i cant figure out what is causing it. Is something being changed in the registry by windows upon start up after a long duration of the pc being off? or is it strictly related to the vBios...?

@J95 I'm down for that! Also, i switched to the Eurocom modded drivers 344.65 (from their site for m17x R4) i have to use Optimus, but it shows valid scores during the firestrike. Have you had a look at the modded Eurocom driver to verify what they have done to get this to happen?

Yes, absolute max. - - - Updated - - - So are there any BIOS mods? or is that what Slv7 is working on? I guess i will run it with HD4000 enabled, since that seems to be more stable ATM.

That is absolutely bad it constantly down clocks during the test the whole time, as you can see the huge fluctuations from 1400+ down to below 400, as for the OCing, it does it with or without that, that does not matter. - - - Updated - - - (ill set my CPU clocks back to stock) Ill try that, what do you recommend setting the voltage offset to? - - - Updated - - - Also I am going to run a registry check today once I get everything working correctly again, it will take a image of the registry, and then tomorrow when shit hits the fan ill take another registry image, and compare the results to see what has changed. ill post those results.