angerthosenear

Some new high quality screenshots, however this enb may not suits everyone tastes.

These are all ultra HD 21/9 screenshots (3840x1620)

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RIP my internet.

also

DAYUMMM those are awesome.

You need to hook @Brian up sometime to make his Titans cry

@themunchkinman

Usually most mod stuff is made by the people who made the thread. People like svl7 and Prema do a LOT of BIOS / vBIOS work. And usually it is only hosted here. Sorry for the confusion in that regard.

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Ah, so I wasn't completely crazy. I knew how passive ones are totally fine for DP -> other digital sources. And the who DP -> VGA by use of a DAC. I was more confused about how a passive DP -> VGA even works. I know it doesn't work on all devices, but for the ones that do, is there a DAC built into the device itself allowing for analogue out? That's where my confusion crops up.

Thanks for the reply!

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Khenglish ninja post::

The main difference I saw was "passive" adapters do not generate a clock for VGA or DVI. Apparently sometimes this works, but it's much more likely to work when getting an "active" adapter that generates the clock. Yes "active" and "passive" require a DAC which does make both technically active. It's weird.

Right.................... I think I'm just going to plug the thing in and smile that it works instead of thinking of the magic in the converter box.

@themunchkinman

1. Posts in Off-Topic are totally fine, no mod approval here. Also doesn't count toward post count. Of course things that completely violate rules are deleted, mod action taken.

You know about the 5 post thing which is good! Most don't.

However, asking for things to be hosted elsewhere is against the rules. It's a combination of bullet point 2 and 3 under the 'Minimum Post Requirements' section in the rules. I'll contact an admin to make this point a bit more clear.

2. I've been approving your other posts, they are completely fine. Just the one was against rules.

3. And don't worry, I have nothing against you making this thread or the other post in a related topic linking to this thread (I approved that post too btw). I'm 3rd on the rung in the ladder here (super moderator and admin are the higher tier ranks). I try to take as neutral a stance as possible on anything, only giving infractions/warnings against posts / people that go against the rules. Ideally, everyone on the mod team would make the same decisions on post approval to have full sense of uniformity across the forum. Some are more strict than others however; which is fine, having varying opinions.

Hope that cleared it up somewhat. Lemme know if you have any more questions, it would have to be in this thread. Can't PM until you get the 5 posts.

I watched yesterday the last episode of Knights of Sidonia... pretty good actually, they are very short though....

Ep 10 is out. This is getting so intense @_@

Please can you tell us your voltage, core and memory offset, what method of extra cooling you are using and any other possible tips for us to attain that level? Did you disable turbo boost? Did you tinker with bios settings? Dude please share.

Voltage at +312.5 mV ( so 1.2V )

Core set to 1271 MHz

Mem at 1325 MHz

Cooling completely stock, all fully assembled and such. I actually set that score during class lol........

Actually, I didn't do anything spectacular lol. I probably could've pushed it more, thermals are certainly no issue. I literally cannot make this thing go over 75C if I wanted to. And thats with hours of running it at that clock. I guess I got a good chip. Could probably be run really well 24/7 even at like 1.25V or more.

I was on my 3820QM at the time, I probably should've tested once I had the 3920XM in there but oh well.

As shown in sig, I have since sold it. Sooooo yeah. Look forward to @svl7 's bios/vbios

Oh, looks like I forgot to post this...

P3547 with 3dm11

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3820QM Processor,Alienware M14xR2

hwbot infos here:

angerthosenear`s 3DMark11 - Performance score: 3547 marks with a GeForce GT 650M

Have you installed the latest Nvidia drivers? The driver for the audio is tied in with it (pretty sure). Check you audio devices in device manager and see if there is anything in there.

This is my desktop, but iirc it's the same on the AW. I don't have the AW14, and sold off my m14xR2 soooooo pretty much on you to figure out sadly (or wait for another member to help ya out:

Hopefully that at least gets you started.

If that doesn't work try checking in the Sound - Playback devices and see if the HDMI stuff shows up there. You could try setting those as default once it's all plugged in to see if it'll force it's way to route audio out. You'll have to restart the program if you change devices or else it'll persist on the one output (your speakers).

Good luck @@!

Hi,

Is it any way feasible to set up a PC in such a way that part of it can be used as an e-GPU through f.i. Thunderbolt?

I was thinking: building the PC from scratch, with the PC fully operational (if so desired); maybe using a secondary GPU as an e-GPU or disabling part of the PC (switchable) so that only the PCI-e and pheripherals are running.

Is such a thing possible with current hardware/ software? Imo it would (could) be great to have a hybrid solution.

At that point you might as well setup the GPU in the desktop as a vGPU. That way any device on the network could use it for graphic processing. I haven't done this personally but it would be similar to having the Steam In-Home Streaming thing. @Brian has tested this with his setup and he said it worked quite well.

Ah thanks for your answer. I just thought something went wrong. Wow, that means you check every single post made in nearly any thread here in the forum? Quite a lot work to do... :thumbs up:

Until a member has 5 quality approved posts, all posts made are verified one-by-one by the admins/mods. After that point then they don't have to be manually approved (but that doesn't mean you can spam low-quality )

Hello,

I found this forum via my search for things to change on my new Laptop... unfortunately there are things to do

Greets S.

P.S.: I have to ask, I answered a thread and it occured the message that a mod has to check this post before it will be displayed. Now if I check the thread nothing is displayed anymore (not even any message that I wrote an answer which has to be checked) does that mean it has been deleted or that it hasn't been checked yet?

From your end, you can't tell either way. But if it is a new post, it just means it is in queue. Turn-around is almost always under 24hrs. It is invisible to you even in queue, not sure if that can be overhauled without a complete re-work. You can assume if something did post successfully then disappeared it is in queue. If it has been a while then it may have been deleted due to not being a quality post.

The mods are scattered around the world so there tends to be someone up at any given time. It takes us a bit sometimes cause things do come up (like I've been pretty sick for the past week).

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At least it appears you have read the rules unlike some other people

Hi, I have a lenovo IdeaPad Y510P, Windows 8.1 x64, BIOS v3.05 rev 3.7.

I've used regedit to change every InitialKeyboardIndicatorslayout value to "2", cause there are like 4 or 5 of them. Now, when I restart the machine it automatically activates the Num lock, but not always, it's like random, it works 80% if the times. But when I shut it down, it activates the Num Lock much lees often, like 10% of the times.

So, how in the hell can I just make it work always? It seems a pretty pretty easy thing to configure, but this randomness is driving me crazy.

Thanks!

Is there no setting in the BIOS? There has been a numlock setting in every BIOS that I've used.

if you like the mmo approach have you seen sword art online? love the elfen lied avatar btw

I don't like the game mechanics of it. I don't like the MC either.

Reason why I like Log Horizon is the game mechanics are really well done, and the game more-or-less becomes a full new world / alternate world where you have to completely role-play to make it work. And aren't bounded so much.

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Elfen Lied <3

Well.... Error 12 here, so I will need to do some wizardry to get it working

Dell E6430, only igp, and only 4GB RAM - I was hoping I will avoid getting here... Seems Win8.1 was a bad choice for this setup.

Anyone can help me out? I started reading the instructions but got lost after a few steps. Isn't there anything that doesn't need me to alter system files?

I'd search in the main DIY eGPU thread. I think there is another E6430 implementation in there. I did my crossfire test with the E6420 under Ubuntu, and normal testing under Win7:

http://forum.techinferno.com/diy-e-gpu-projects/5622-%5Bblog%5D-crossfire-testing.html#post82280

You'd have to look around for E6430. Do you know if you are using a MBR or UEFI/GPT install of Win8.1?

Post the details in the main thread so more people can help you out.

Wow, shipped and all?!

Yup!

You can get them pretty cheap shipped here in the UK too.

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The problem is getting hold of the PCie Power cable from EXP 6pin to GPU 6pin+8pin.

Coolio.

I like how both of you have avatars with laptop+eGPU ;D......

For those in the states, you can get a DA-2 for $14.99 on eBay. Not sure about other countries. Not bad for a 220W adapter @@!

What power supply are you using with it , the 150W ?

Yeah 150W, I don't have a Kill-a-Watt so I can't see if I'm needing a large brick to get a higher OC on my CPU (it caps out at 67W no matter the priplane / other power settings).

But as long as your CPU is using 65W or less, I don't see any issues with power settings.

Oh, i see from your posts it sounded like you had it stable, What kind of problems were there with the alienware, flashing problems? Is there still plan to release this mod or still a work in progress?.

It's very picky about the vBIOS, sometimes the GPU would completely fail to be initialized. But most of the issue was getting rid of the thermal limit and allowing the sliders for OC'ing to 1. actually work. 2. persist. 3. be on a large enough spectrum to be useful but not overly risky for new OC'ers.

Flashing it isn't an issue.

I changed my boot logos too so had to figure those out (didn't take long though).

Not sure what the plans are, I think there were some small things that had to be done before it is released.

I haven't had any issues with the current version so it's more than likely stable enough for release.

Can you share the vbios you are using and the method used to flash? I would like to bypass the 67C limit as wel

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The vbios is part of the main bios. You'll have to wait on a release from @svl7 about this. I was the tester for the bios/vbios, sometimes it didn't work so well ;D....

Hi fellow Elitebook owners.

I just wanted to share a bug-fix for those (like me) that might have been wondering why in the hell you can't adjust your screen brightness on your Elitebook?

1. Device manager

2. Monitors

3. Uninstall 'Generic PnP monitor'

4. The monitor will re-installed automatically

5. Enjoy manual screen brightness again

This actually applies to all (probably) laptops with this bug. I've had to do this on the Fujitsu T901 and my AW m14xR2. Not sure why the bug shows up, but this is certainly the quick and easy method of fixing it. It was driving me nuts the first time this bug popped up. ;D

Please see annotations below (and forgive my limited paint skills ):

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10000 hrs mspaint:

In a more serious note, that is SO much cleaner than the PE4L series. Not to mention the lack of wobbly-ness by having the full slot connector.

Has anyone done testing on the PE4L vs the EXP GDC v6? Preferably on the same slot. I found a performance difference on on the PE4L-EC060A and the PE4L-PM060A here:

http://forum.techinferno.com/diy-e-gpu-projects/2109-diy-egpu-experiences-%5Bversion-2-0%5D-52.html#post80638

Keep it on the same slot, cause that might've been the performance difference in my testing.

Hi there,

Recently I have bought External USB 3.0 Blue-Ray Drive, which consist of:

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And

BlueRay Drive UJ260AF [ATTACH=CONFIG]11509[/ATTACH]

The problem is it cannot reach supported 24x speed while reading from CD-ROM Disk. What is the problem?

Big Thanks in advance

You're probably hitting the limits for USB 3.0 data rate. BluRay has a pretty high bitrate, and at 24x speed, it's probably too much for USB 3.0.

:googling:

Looks to be max video bitrate is 40 Mbps and max data rate is 54 Mbps... so at 24x speed... that would be about 1296 Mbps. hmmm USB 3.0 maxes out at 5 Gbit/s so that doesn't quite give you an answer...

Perhaps it's the program you are using to burn? Also, it's probably burning slower so it doesn't mess up / give you corruptions.

I'm going to add~

Do not get anything with less than a 760. KEY component is not the GENERATION (700's, 800's ,etc)

but the level of card. NOTHING below a lv 60.

why? because anything less will have low video memory, low clocks, and If you tried doing something like a stress test or tried to render multiple complicated components (think: rendering all the parts of a flashlight with the curves etc)

A low level card will result in you running into longer waiting times, more frequent crashes, and inability to utilize certain tools.

Be a little careful saying this. The GT 650M has the same core as the GTX 660M and the GT 750M. Click on the GT 650M in my sig to see my hwbot submission. 1271 MHz @ 1.2V. I could probably push it a little more, but not needed.

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As a MechE student, I haven't run across anything that requires gobs of processing power.

Lenovo Y-series are pretty solid.

Check with the programs that you use currently / plan to use to see about hardware acceleration for stuff like CAD. Some like AMD over Nvidia and vice versa.

Right, I'm thinking it's because of the Intel Threat as well.. why wouldn't it work? I'd still buy it and use it for RAID cards or 10gig ethernet. I just purchased it FYI. I will be sure to give back some results here. I will take it apart (I really could care less about doing that) and fit a 780ti in it for sure. My G46VW has an overclocked 3840QM which benchmarks at the performance level of a 3770. I will hope to expose how much thunderbolt actually hurts performance. I'm excited!

EDIT: I will also be testing a 780ti over mPCIe tomorrow afternoon to show the difference.

If it works with eGPU (with minor modding perhaps for power), TB users should probably buy them up while it lasts! I'm really curious to see how this will pan out.

While not important in mPCIe vs TB, I did find that on some laptops, mPCIe vs EC can have some variation. mPCIe can be a bit faster than EC in one laptop, yet slower in another. This is dwarfed by TB of course. Might be interesting to see.

I'm going to mod my vbios today and do some testing on this as well, thanks for the quick response. I'm guessing you use throttlestop for cpu ocing, is that a good place to start for that? I'm looking to increase my cpu to at least 3.5 for wii emulation, because they dont use more than one core for cpu, one for gpu , and one for sound, do you think that my temperatures will be reasonable?

I'm using the vbios off a random clevo. With the Dell one you are stuck with the 67C thermal limit.

Can't use throttlestop since it'll mess up the voltage the CPU needs to operate, at least for me. I've done all my changing in the BIOS or with XTU.

What CPU do you have? I have the 3920XM running at 4.4GHz at a little over 1.3V atm. I don't really run into thermal issues. And that's around 65W.