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I did try that a few times with no success. I have however corrected the problem since. XTU either wrote the multiplier or the voltage to the RAM. I was able to correct it with Thaiphoon Burner. Thanks for the moral support .

I appreciate the offer, however, I don't know if I feel comfortable soldering on the board just yet. I also am not the best at soldering so there is no guarantees I wont screw it up . If you happen to figure out a flash method, I will help you out. Just let me know. Thanks again for the offer. Billy

Yea your right Luis on NBR already confirmed that the new 14 doesn't accept anything higher than 1.35v. My problem is I was messing with XTU and I tried adjusting the multiplier on the ram and the system didn't like it and I think the RAM is still stuck and possibly at 1.5v. My computer wont boot past post and has 4 beeps, however, if I remove the sticks it beeps only twice. I'm hoping it isn't something more than the ram. I prefer A00 since that is currently what I am using, unless you think it is worth the upgrade to A03.

It looks like Insyde updated the way they install the BIOS. I tried to compare some of the extracted files from the current BIOS release for my Alienware 14 and the extension to the file that needs to be renamed isn't part of the extraction with the current BIOS. My 14 is beeping 4 times, according to Dell that is a RAM issue. I replaced the low voltage RAM with regular DDR3 hoping it solved the problem. I still have the issue and I was hoping to be able to do a blind flash of the BIOS but can't find any resources on this and hoping someone in the community has some knowledge. I posted this in the general Alienware forum because I am assuming the new lineup is all using this new Insyde format. Thanks

svl7, Are you going to be able to unlock the new bios for the 14? Is it even worth it for this system? Thanks for your commitment to the community.

I was supprised with this as well. I have never used sleep or hibernation and that's the first thing I disable. With the speeds of todays SSD it really is pointless to use them I believe.

I just ran this bench. And I have to say I am stunned with the score. I think I had the highest score according to 3dmark previous to this run with a 12949. Only thing different is my ram speeds and the removal of the Dell provided ram. Here is the 3dmark link of my before and after benches. Result And a screenie. And this is ran with svl7's 900mhz core vbios.

What are your core clocks and memory clocks with this vbios? You say this is the only one you can OC the core. All the ones I have tried have had some sort of core clock OC available wether is be 135, 324, or the one that seems to be open. OCnewedition causes driver crashes for me once I try to OC my cards with something that was stable with anothe vbios. I still think the 900mhz core clock with OV is still the best and stable. Until someone shows some benchmarks that surpass what I was able to score then I don't see how ocnewedition is better. EDIT: I didnt see that you repsponded to my previous question. I'm glad your not having problems with that vbios. I wish I didn't because I know my core clocks can handle a lot more OC and still waiting to be able to unleash the true power of these cards.

I don't have time to check my scores but, my highest score is 12943 I think and that is with svl7's 900mhz core clock with OV plus the 135+mhz allowed to OC. My memory for gpu0 is 2700mhz and gpu 1 is 2400mhz. My processor is set at 50 flex 46 46 46 46 with the rest of the same settings as you. I am also running 1600 on the Pri Plane. CPU is dedicated to Physx as well. I am running my system with it sitting on an AC.

So your not having driver crashes with the 758mhz with unlocked core? Intertesting. There were a couple of us that were having driver crashes with it and it was only stable at very low OC which didn't produce the same results as some of the other vbios. Not sure what was causing it, I don't remember if it was OV or not. What are you able to OC your cards to then?

Wouldn't the best vbios to re-moddify be the Dell 680m - 80.04.33.00.21.rom_900default_OV.zip with more then what's availble for OC. Like maybe atleast 324+. That I think would probably max out our cards. This vbios seems to be the best one available. What do you think slv7?

Thanks for testing, much appreciated. I think that is roughly what I can OC with on the possible 600+ but anything more and my driver will crash or computer will blue screen. I am using a 900mhz core with 124mhz possible OC and that one I get my best benchmarks with (I believe currently I have the highest score for a 3920xm and 680m sli according to 3dmark). You might want to try that one, I don't get throttling with it like I do with the one your using. It's in this thread somewhere on one of the earlier pages. Its posted in svl7 post for download. Here is the link to the post: http://forum.techinferno.com/general-notebook-discussions/1847-nvidia-kepler-vbios-mods-overclocking-editions-modified-clocks-voltage-tweaks-3.html#post23820

Are you able to OC with that vbios and not have your video driver crash. That was the problem I was having with that vbios.

slv7 here is a little feed back. On the Dell 680m - 850 base - 889 boost - OV - OC.zip vbios, I could max my core out to 324mhz over core clock. Memory on gpu1 to 900mhz over and gpu 2 to 600 mhz over. Sometimes I would encounter a BSOD or driver crash with my 2nd card that high. It seemed stable under 575mhz. With that being said, the new vbios you just modded I get driver crashes after about 1 min of setting my cards to the frequencies stated above. I don't have any other data besides that.

Thanks svl7. It now allows 653+ over core. Will be testing stability soon. Great work.