Minami Chan

The whole point is not to increase power. The point is to sustain that battery power. Normally NOS enables you 180+50=230w, enough for overclocking since you're going to face severe thermal problems before surpassing that power limit.

The reason I wanna mod it is that NOS kicks in only while your battery has enough juice. For long gaming session I can end up with an empty battery and tons of throttling after like 1 hour or so.

By "do some wiring stuff" I mean putting an extra power brick into the charging circuit on the mobo, not modding the battery itself since it's dangerous. It's like one brick for the power and another for charging up the battery while the battery is meanwhile discharging.

Wiring a brick onto the mobo to charge the battery isn't impossible IMO. Disconnect the circuit from the mobo voltage input and use another brick instead. I might be wrong though, not sure how this thing actually works.

Nope. I'm very comfortable with it after some minor overvoltage. Running [email protected] rock solid. Anything higher is not considered necessary to me since I only got a 4700MQ.

Well, that's not the case for some ppl. For example, me. I got this vBIOS just to change that thermal/power limit thing and I'm not planning to oc/undervolt it yet.

Also, since it's an oc vbios, keeping it at stock will give OCers a better reference. There's really no need to pre-undervolt for them since, well, like you said, they know their cards best and they know what they are doing and, they need the easiest way to restore everything to stock just in case.

Just that one can hit high at stock voltage with some cards does not necessarily ensure that all cards can handle it perfectly, even at stock freq.

That's my opinion though. No offense/disrespect to anybody including svl. He's done a great job.

Agreed on svl's awareness. But that's another bad move made by nv if that's the case. Also I would recommend svl to leave the voltage unaltered since the driver would overclock the card/some cards can't even handle it at stock.

Hi. Yes, I am running 347 but I honestly don't think the driver overclocked my card for me. Maybe that's what svl intended.

You could expect 1380mhz or so with this card with a reasonable overvoltage. Purely amazing chips from NV imho.

In fact I'm experiencing some "display driver stopped responding" issues after flashing. I did notice that core voltage is a little bit low.

Is it my card that sucks or svl's that is beyond average? I'm not sure if this (crashing @[email protected]) sounds normal to you. Maybe it's just mine.

Hi. Thanks for the reply.

Is the voltage unaltered?

Hi. After flashing my GTX980m 8GB, I get 1202mhz core running stock. Shouldn't it be 1037? Or is your modded bios pre-overclocked? Thanks.

Yup, tried that with no luck.

I think you still can oc your ram with IXTU though. Not sure if I'm right.

Then what's the point of modded BIOS? Since IXTU can push it all the way up.

Yes. I works perfectly except I can only push my 4700mq up to 34x/4 cores.

I thought Windows judges remaining battery charge via voltage.

A new idea. Keep the battery in, while charging it with a secondary adapter (do some wiring stuff). I think that will keep the battery level up and the NOS will keep going for hours.

Hi. My system is MSI GT70 Dragon Edition 2.

Hi everyone. I've heard that an unlocked BIOS will give me full control over the parameters for the CPU. Does that include unlocking the maximum multiplier limit (34x/4cores with 4700mq). Or is it just a way to go overclocking without IXTU? I'm confused.

Hi. I got a problem for my 4700mq. I have IXTU installed and I've noticed that even if there's no load at all (CPU Utilization <10%), the CPU would not downclock at all. It says it's running on one core at 3.49Ghz. I'm pretty sure I have EIST enabled. This makes the battery life under 2 hours at idle.

Please help me. Thanks.

The Haswell version of MSI's GT70 series have a power limit from the AC adapter of 180w max due to the NOS feature. And we all know that if you're running 4940MX + 980M or something likewise, and you want to push them to the limit, 180w is just not enough at all.

Recently I've consulted some technicians at MSI, only to confirm that this limitation is hard-coded into the EC firmware and can't be unlocked.

Then here comes my thought. The NOS starts to draw power from the battery once 180w is reached. What if we take a secondary adapter and wire it onto the battery bay (instead of installing the battery). In this way we might be able to utilize a lot more juice without modding the nb.

Any thoughts?

Got my MBA2014 11" (Core i5) few days ago. I'm running Pro Tools on it for home recording/mixing.

I've noticed that my tasks put a heavy demand on CPU performance. But I didn't have the money for a Mackbook Pro. Can I just push it a little bit? And how to if I can? OS is OS X Maverick.

Thanks.

Just upgraded the GPU for my MSI GT70 Dragon Edition 2. Now I have my 4700mq + GTX980m running at stock clocks. Playing Call of Duty Advanced Warfare I would get 85+℃ on both CPU and GPU. Is that too hot? All graphics settings maxed out.

I've replaced the heatsink and redone the thermal paste. Even opened up the bottom cover to let more air in. Still very high temps. Sometimes it would hit 90℃ on the GPU, and it's just the game, not furmarking/prime95ing or benchmarking.

Need your help on this. Thanks.

Normally, within the same generation (i.e. GTX7xx or GTX8xx or so), the higher the spec, the higher the power consumption. Newer generations tend to have lower consumption compared to their older equivalent.