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The maximum settings I reached are 1344/2800 on the card using prema vbios. This configuration does 14,5k gpu score in 3dmark11. Above these limits card does not go and pops up an error. Regarding to the problem it may also be the card itself. Each card may have slightly different parameters.

This is the maximum that I can get. 1202 MHz (1.00V) / 2935 mhz

with the same frequencies if i increase 0.25V after a few minutes of benchmarks i have tdp error but if I put ram at 2000MHz i can be up to 1320 1.10v stable but have lower results in bencmark.

seems that the card struggle to feed ram + gpu over a certain power. the gpu rises smoothly even 1350mhz only keeping the Rams to minimum.

probably is a structural limit of the GPU

Make sure you are using the latest BIOS for the laptop.

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yes i have the A14 wich is the latest one

You might just be hitting your GPU's clock limits - no vbios or driver will change what's inherit to your particular chip.

GPUs are like people: they're different even though they have the same specs. That's a given but pure luck to get a 980M that will overclock passed 1300MHz. Anything between 1200 and 1300 like 1260MHz should be stable. I have tried anything from 1300+ and it fails.

So dial back your clocks and bump up the voltage to 1.072v and do more tests. try my clocks +134 / +295 @ 1.072v with prema's 1.1.1 vbios.

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i tried your setting with no result. is so strange that i can increse a lot gpu frequency not touching ram or vice versa.

can be a compatibility issue? i noticed that when i flash new v bios i have always different PCI Subsystem ID (see the picture) have you gays a bios fully compatible with this id(1028.05AA) ?

No modding needed as the plugs are the same. It works straight away.

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guys i received the 330w power supply but i have stel the same problem... looks like the gpu goes in a kind of power limitation and freeze with blu screen and tdp error.

i saw that if i increase ram frequency to +400 with gpu stock is stable... the same if i keep ram to stock and gpu +180 with 1.068v.

if for example i put +400 ram and just +50 on the gpu 1.068v or +180 gpu and +50 ram after few minutes of valley benchmark everything freeze and tdp error come out.

i don't know what try anymore

i used prema bios 1.1.1v and the one from svl7 with same result

can be a driver problem? i tried thousand driver and file inf.

No modding needed as the plugs are the same. It works straight away.

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ok thank you... i let you know when the psu arrive

Just look on eBay for alienware 330w psu. The psu is used on the x51.

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the connector is the same or should be changed? i have got alienware 17 r5

what Power brick you are using ?

i'm using 240 Watt Psu... i just noticed that most of you has 330 Watt.. probably this is the problem....

i was trying to find a 330 psu alienware but i didn't find any model compatible. which one are you using?

Hi Everybody, first of all sorry for my english

i bought a gtx980m from eurocom website to replace gtx880 in the alienware m17x r5. first of all i don't know why but this card is not recognized by any kind of official driver and i need always to replace the .inf file.

anyway i noticed that whit stock driver and bios was throttling realy often and i decided to flush few vbios just to try. i tried prema, msi , clevo bios but after few minutes without throttling i have tdp error and everything crush. this is happening whit win 10 and 8.1 and whit different kind of driver... temperatures don't exeed 74 C

the strange thing is that with all custom bios even if i don't touch frequency after few minutes in game the screen froze and came out blu screen with tdp error (nvlddmkm.sys)the gpu looks working fine without throttling att all. i tried to increase voltage or power limit value but no improvement. maybe somthing wrong with .inf file or driver.

one more thing is that after pc restart automatically on desktop came out kernel video stop work and freeze again one more time...

anybody can help me? i mixed a lot of different driver and file inf with no result and i'm getting crazy

Hello all! I'm from italy and I have an AW M17 r5 with an i7-4710MQ CPU, 16 DDR3 GB RAM with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M with 8GB VRAM. I'm new here and want to learn more about modding and overclocking.

Hi Everybody, first of all sorry for my english:torn:

i bought a gtx980m from eurocom website to replace gtx880 in the alienware m17x r5. first of all i don't know why but this card is not recognized by any kind of official driver and i need always to replace the .inf file.

anyway i noticed that whit stock driver and bios was throttling realy often and i decided to flush few vbios just to try. i tried prema, msi , clevo bios but after few minutes without throttling i have tdp error and everything crush. this is happening whit win 10 and 8.1 and whit different kind of driver...

the worst thing is that i lost the stock bios and even whit some msi or clevo stock bios i have this kind of problem but less then custom vbios.

looks like i can overclock ram frequency without any problem but if i touch voltage and gpu frequency goes in error. now i tried to reduce 50 mhz leaving voltage on "-0+. seems to be better but still unstable and i think i will come back to stock frequency. just for information the max reached temperature with more than 1250mhz was 74 c

any suggestion? and please if somebody bought my same gpu can send me the stock bios? i will appreciate