HotPantsHenry

I woke up to seeing my post featured on the main page! 

Thank you everyone! 

Just for this, I'm reviving all of this and putting the WHOLE project into a portable unit and sharing the WHOLE progress with you all! 

It will be a couple of days unfortunately, since over here in texas we've been hit pretty hard and I'm currently stuck in a town but I will get this rocking and rolling and ready for your viewing pleasure soon! 

3 hours ago, RODBORA said:

Amazing project!

 

Very nice. The first working WC in a notebook I ever seen.

 

Can you publish some more pictures?

 

Congratulations! Your project is in the main page of the website!

Yes I will shortly! I am stuck in a town due to weather here in texas, but I will have more pictures and updates soon! 

Agreed! 

I'm surprised Minecraft hasn't died yet. 

Will do! I'll do the whole fresh install of windows 7 tomorrow when i can have access to the win7 pro discs. 

Honestly i can not stand everything from 7. 

10 had promises, then it was released. 

UPDATE:

It seems that windows 7 was always a better choice than windows 10.

I've been fighting drivers for a while. 

The newest driver has made games switch to integrated graphics (yes, i know about forcing NVIDIA GPU), so I am trying out different drivers to see what driver will work.

on another note, the old driver i used had multiple video_tdr_failure crashes to start with, so here goes to show the real challenge will to be finding the driver that will hit the "sweet spot"

Nearly had a dead card as well. Apparently this card does not enjoy more voltage than intended. I had SEVERE artifacts that would not go away until i rebooted. 

I will eventually get this setup working without a hitch, but it's all trial and error. This laptop was never even meant to have this card as a configurable option, so this is all trial and error.

27 minutes ago, StamatisX said:

Dam... I guess it worked really well...

Thanks! This setup is by far the most overkill though. This "solution" is not going to be mobile anytime soon.

Guilty as charged on that one. 

Furmark either crashes the driver or freezes my system. 

Thanks for the tip! 

Once i am back home, i'll do a static test (my term of staying in one place with as much going on graphically as possible.) outside of starting area. 

On another note, i tried 3DMark and it used my intel hd graphics so i won't be using that xD 

15 minutes ago, Brian said:

 

 

I think a good stress test would be a game like GTA V or even Rainbow 6 Vegas (if you have it). Given the age of the GPU, any of these new games should stress it enough to cause utilization to spike consistently. Those temps are pretty great, now you just need a way to miniaturize that water cooling setup  

I can't afford that at this time but i will purchase it. I have the witcher 3 though, will that work? 

19 minutes ago, encor50 said:

haha nice you need to do it with sli like an alienware or others with the 880m's  

That would be sweet! although, the price tag for a test system like that would be kind of insane  Maybe if someone finds a barebones system like that then i can throw my hardware into that and save for an additional AIO Water cooling system and another 880m!  

Here is a quick picture of temps here. 

Idle always is 27C (which i am proud of!)

Load was used on Skyrim @1920x1200 all settings ULTRA with  AA@8x and AF@16X and FXAA enabled.

Mouse cursor shows temps at that current time. 

I would use Furmark if it didn't decide to start crashing on me after the win10 update. ;-;

If you want me to use a specific program for benching/stress temp then feel free to tell me!

Just now, Brian said:

Haha wow, is that block taped on there? This should have some interesting results. What GPU is it using?

LMAO yes it is. Unfortunately ;-; 

The card is an 880m (the notoriously hot card). and Temps coming up soon!

12 minutes ago, Brian said:

Cool look forward to seeing what you had to do to get it up and running. And I see your other thread is getting attention in the general area so you might want to put a link there to this thread. 

It was multiple hours of trial and error with the RED/GREEN mod with zip ties, but the holes for mounting on the card had a smaller circumference than the antec water block. So after a while, knowing i had really no other route, i just half assed put electrical tape with considerable amount of pressure being applied, it stuck, and now it works. Who would've thought? posting temp pic soon!

Here is an awful picture, but will give you an idea of what is going on. 

Cpu cooling is stock. Even with minor OC to the cpu, the temps stay pretty cool. 

Haha yes i do, unfortunately it is not pretty or even delightful to look at by any means necessary. 

I have one with me but this is in my room, pre-finalized.

I'll have one uo here soon, since i am at work

I am working on a MSI GT60-0nc.

I have a 300watt power brick for this thing just in case i decide to go insane with mods.

I7 (i will get model when i am back home, i upgraded this so it isn't stock)

16gb ddr3 1600mhz ram

880m 8gb msi with watercooling

500gb samsung evo pro ssd.

I will literally even buy a whole new system just to run this card if the motherboard tries to get in my way of massively OC'ing this card. 

I made a topic in the wrong section, so just look at my account and choose the only other topic (not regular to these forums) 

In a nutshell, i successfully installed a liquid cooling system to my 880m sitting in a MSI GT60-0NC.

I know these cards are notorious for overheating and not getting the performance it can put out. 

This is where my project comes into play. 

I just got the modded vBIOS for the card, and was wondering who all wanted in on the project and give advice to push this card to its absolute limits!!

Temps without modded vBIOS

IDLE:27c

LOAD:42C-48C (4hr gpu stress) 

I work 8-5 central time so i might not reply soon but rest assured i will check regularly!

Thanks! 

The temps i have are 27C idle and 43C under 4 hour 1080p furmark stresstest.

Definitely an improvement!

Hello all! 

A week ago i put in a water cooler to my 880m (yes, an 880m) to see what power we can actually pull from this card. 

To beast or not to beast is the real question here!

I could not download the modded vBIOS for this card until today, and i was wondering who all wanted to join me on this journey to see how far we can push this card! 

If you want to put out suggestions (what voltage, multipliers, etc) to use then feel free to do so! 

I know this card is notorious for the heating issue, which is why i have done what i have done. (it is not pretty. It would not fit so i literally electrical taped the block on... Don't judge me, it works.)

The memory chips are being actively cooled with a fan so they are taken care of. 

I will post up pictures and benchmarks when i can! 

EDIT: I know about the red/green mod with zipties, but the block is bigger than the area for the mounting screws, so it would not mount with that method. This is the reason why i have done the method i have chosen. 

EDIT2: the thread is moving here: https://forum.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/8923-msi-880m-overclock-help/

Please don't reply to this thread as it will be taken down by me shortly. Thanks!