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The 650m already has a fully enabled GK107 core, so there is nothing to unlock.

No that's luoxia that did the 4 pipe mod. I only added one It doesn't seem to help at all though even though I moved over the existing heat pipes to get 100% heat pipe coverage over the die. Momentarily the mod will be 1 upped by adding a radiator behind the existing radiator. Will be tricky to try to fit everything in without too much dremel work. I'm also going to add some big caps to the voltage rails in this thing. I'm way over the designed power draw and this thing makes a good chunk of power related noise. Hopefully the caps will cut the noise and make sure things last. About alienware cooling, I think they made a design error by putting the heatpipes on top of the radiators instead of embedded within. Lack of heat transfer to the radiator. If you could add a heatpipe or 2 to the underside of the radiator I think you will get significant improvements.

You don't seem to understand what PWM is. Pulse width modulation. A fixed frequency and fixed voltage are applied. In this case 25Khz at 3.3V. The voltage never varies from 3.3V, but the multimeter will read lower voltages depending on the duty cycle of the PWM signal. For example if the duty cycle is 50%, the voltage of the PWM line will be 3.3V half the time, and 0V half the time, for an average of 1.65V. If the duty cycle is 75%, then the voltage is 3.3V 75% of the time, and 0V 25% of the time, for an average of 2.475V. PWM is weird so an inline resistor might work. For a water cooling pump I have it takes a lower duty cycle % to run full speed at 3.3V than 5V.

Pretty straightforward mod with tangible results. I like it. Is the new fan significantly louder than the old? For those temps were your forcing the fan to fun full blast or were you using automatic fan control? Also that CPU will use less than 65W at 4.1GHz? My 2920xm uses ~85W at those clocks. I assume your CPU can clock higher but you just run 4.1 to keep temps down? BTW I ran the XTU CPU test for 1M at the same clocks and volts as you: fans auto max temp was 86C fans full speed max temp was 80C 4.1GHz was maintained constant throughout. Room temp was 72.3F. My cooling is pretty far from stock though. If I tried that on how this thing arrived here I probably would have hit 100C after 15s.

Not many laptops can handle 76W for the CPU, but the fact that your idle temps are also high makes me think there is something wrong with your fan. What is your laptop?

The highest I can run for benchmarks to have a chance at finishing is 4800. He's running 5260. That's a big increase.

1315 memory! Seems that the 675mx memory can clock higher than 680m memory. I wonder why since both have fully enabled memory interfaces.

The file fparts.txt has documentation on how fpt is supposed to handle different flash chips. You may be able to look up your device and add it to the fparts file. Also the 5 series chipset does not have the clock generator integrated with the chipset like 6 and 7 series, so you will not be able to overclock with this method. You might get other useful options though. To overclock you will need to look up the clock generator on your motherboard and hope it is overclockable. Could you please upload the ME 6 tools that you found and the corresponding documentation if you have it?

You can't disconnect your ethernet. it's a chip soldered onto the motherboard.

Maybe you can overclock the base clock, but it won't make a huge difference. You'll at best gain 25% bandwidth, possibly much less. A nice plus though is this also overclocks your CPU. It won't make a night and day difference, but you will notice it. This is pretty complicated though and you will need to look up much on your own. You can start by going to Podien's Shareware and clicking "PLL find". The terms and some facts are a bit outdated (ex. front side buses no longer exist, but the base clock is similar), but this describes the basic idea. A more modern program that may support your PLL is setfsb. Tech Inferno Fan made a program too for some more PLLs but I can't remember the name of it.

I have a clevo. Clevo's don't whitelist PSUs but I'll either have to change the connector on the motherboard or PSU to use it. It's 19.5V vs 19V which the laptop was designed for, but the voltages are close enough not to matter.

Oh I thought your CPUs were sandy bridge based. Hard to find out fast on intel arc. The old sspec website was far more informative. Still a pretty impressive system though, but it's sad to hear that intel's best CPUs still cannot be overclocked.

This means that your WWAN is not wired for PCI-E. I thought you had already tested it but I guess we miscommunicated. Unfortunately x2 is impossible with your laptop.

How did you overclock that CPU? I thought people couldn't get BCLK straps working on Xeons? If things have changed then someone give me $4k+ so I can start the 8 core club

Yay. Drop temps another 10C and you can get a quad.

You said your wireless card works in the WWAN slot. Your wireless card is PCI-E so therefore your WWAN slot is fully wired. Plug the wireless card into the WWAN slot and look up what the port number is, or if you currently have it in the WWAN slot then plug it back into the WLAN slot to find out what port number that is. I suspect that the reason why the eGPU is not working in the mPCI-E slots is because you are hotplugging the eGPU, but since the BIOS did not see any device on the port on startup it disabled the port. This can be worked around with Tech Inferno Fan's setup program, but first we need to know if x2 is even possible.

Yeah but your overvolted 675mx is not beating an overvolted 680m: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M video card benchmark result - Genuine Intel® CPU 0 @ 2.40GHz,CLEVO P170EM You have awesome memory BTW. If you rip off your gpu's package cover and take a highly detailed picture then I'll do the same and maybe we can find our laser cuts and get 1536 shaders! That cover looks like a PITA to remove though without killing the card so you go first. Also if you kill your card trying I'll say it was your idea. This is the only way I can beat Johnksss in hwbot.

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Your 675mx is performing the same as what the average 680m can clock to on stock volts. impressive.

It cannot overclock a 3630qm. The multipliers on your CPU cannot be raised past the 34/33/32/32 defaults. You can only overclock that CPU by modding your ME FW to allow BCLK overclocking, which will get you a 10% overclock at best, and that's assuming that the ME FW on a lenovo is even moddable.

Laptops idle high because manufacturers have the fans shut off at lower temps to save battery life and since people don't like fan noise, while in desktops fans never turn off. Your load temps are good for a laptop and well below maximum allowed.

Performance Level [2] -(P0) is your high performance profile and is the only one you should bother adjusting unless you want to try to make the 680m usable in games on battery. Memory default should be 1800MHz according to nvidia inspector. You can set the clocks in 1mhz increments for both core and memory, but the clocks will round down to the nearest multiple of 13 for the core and 10 (5 actual) for the memory. GPU-z will report the actual clocks that your card is running, which should be within 13 for the core and half -5 for the memory compared to what was set with nvidia inspector. Some people find they can overclock core higher if they keep the memory lower or vice-verse. Personally I have never noticed this trend. With 1.025V I would expect the worst 680ms to do around 920MHz and the best to do around 1040MHz. Mine does 980 at that voltage.

Design plays a huge factor in how many times flash memory can be rewritten. 20 writes is absurdly low and sounds like sony had a major design error where the flash programmer holds voltages too long or uses excessively high voltage or something. In SSD drives the worst drives can still do 1k or so write cycles, and I expect the flash memory on a BIOS chip to be SLC since there is no need for high density, which is good for 100k+ Also BIOS chips tend to be NOR arrays instead of NAND arrays. I'm not sure why since NAND is cheaper. I guess NOR structures were easier to make at first and they just stuck with it. So basically what I'm saying is you should be able to flash your BIOS as many times as you want without the flash memory wearing out, assuming Nvidia didn't make a design blunder.

Sometimes mPCI-E slots are not fully wired and only have USB connectivity instead of both USB and PCI-E. Does your wireless card work in that slot and if so is your wireless card PCI-E or USB? You can look up port numbers with AIDA64.

How are you setting x2? What ports are you using?