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  1. @Prema I have one request. For the P170EM can you make the full fan keys back to FN+1 as the stock bios has it? Unless there was a specific reason to make it FN+9.
  2. So to confirm this works correctly now? With the Sager v14 bios I wasn't able to install Windows 7 under UEFI mode no matter what I tried. With the custom bios this is allowed now?
  3. For my Clevo it recognized the driver fine after flashing, nothing special had to be done, so I assume the same will happen with you.
  4. @svl7 Is there any chance that you could create a slightly undervolted version of 'Clevo 680m - 80.04.33.00.10 'OCedition' revised_01.zip'? That is, if it wouldn't be too time consuming. As I tend to run stock clocks most of the time a slight undervolt would be nice for better temps and the like.
  5. Are you sure that it was an actual increase in performance from the drivers themselves and not the clocks? 33 has working turbo boost for me and my card clocks up to 758mHz by default compared to the stock 719. If I drop the clocks to 719 it performs identically to version 29 which my card came with by default. I've yet to try 67 but I will and will post my results. EDIT: Just flashed with 67 and it performs identically to the other two at 719mHz. Also, if someone would be able to answer as to what NVIDIA changed between the different driver versions(if anyone knows that is) that'd be fantastic.
  6. But what about people like Meeker that are able to achieve 1035/2400(iirc) clocks without throttling? I think it may have a bit to do with the production differences between cards. Not all cards are produced identical so this probably plays a big role in all this.
  7. I don't experience CPU throttling. AFAIK the P170EM only throttles the CPU under very heavy loads so I don't see how throttlestop would help my gpu scores but I'll try it in a bit anyway, just to rule out any possible what-ifs.
  8. I haven't tried it in Crysis 2 however so the comparison isn't exactly accurate. You might want to decrease the polling time in Afterburner to, say, 500 ms. It might be throttling just so quickly that AB doesn't see it happen.
  9. I mean, it's not that terrible I suppose. It's only on these artificial tests that it throttles on. I just tried with a 135/400 OC in BC2(don't have BF3 as I don't like it very much) with everything maxed out and AAx32 just to put extra load on it and it never throttled once(although it did put out a nice framerate, constant 90+ FPS)(temps weren't bad either, without FN+1 they maxed out at 84C and with FN+1 they didn't go past 77). Although I have another problem on the GPU that worries me and I'm currently discussing it with the manufacturer. When I have a program running to take temperature readings(such as Afterburner) the GPU makes a very small/quiet click noise every time a temperature reading is taken. I haven't seen this problem mentioned anywhere else so it worries me and just for this reason alone I may RMA the card depending on what the manufacturer says might be the cause.
  10. I have the free version of 3dmark 11 unfortunately so I cannot do that. I can run the test a few times and just quit out after the first test. That's because DDR5 ram is derived from DDR3 ram which when run in dual channel mode, such as in your graphics card, is actually at 900MHZ each(I think I got that right, someone correct me if I'm wrong). Many programs just double the value to keep it user friendly, etc. Hmm, I don't remember if I had memory OC or not when I gave it 20 to the core. I'll try again now with memory at 1800 and core up to see how it performs. EDIT: Memory at stock it managed to get up to 50 on the core before throttling. I'm starting to wonder if this is perhaps just an issue with all the newer cards..?
  11. Well, I don't have a Dell so I can't speak for that but with the 680m and overvolted you can go from ~6000 graphics score in 3dmark 11 to ~7100(no overvolt) and up to ~8000-9000 overvolted. I know that these figures were taken on the 4gb versions(Clevo/MSI) so I don't know how well that will translate into Dells cards but it should logically be able to achieve at least 7000, if not more, which is a ~16.67% increase in performance. First you'd have to justify if it's worth it, however. Run Afterburner with your games and use the OSD to see how much utilization you get out of your cards. I usually don't go above 50% unless it's something like Crysis 2 but for the most part I'm still limited by CPU.
  12. Logitech G9 @ 3200 DPI. I find that adjusting windows sensitivity settings is far better because having windows sensitivity too high makes the mouse actually skip instead of flowing smoothly so having the mouse on max dpi and windows sensitivity low works the best.
  13. I agree with you on that. I don't understand users that stick to one side and don't listen to positive points regarding the other(as users on both sides of the spectrum act in this close minded way). Every now and then one company pulls ahead of the other, outdoing it with this or that, and then the other company retaliates outdoing the other one. This cycle continues and will always continue so long as there are at least two opposing companies vying for the customers. In the current situation the 7970m is a bag of problems on any laptop that isn't Alienware(because others cannot disable enduro) so for most users getting a 680m is the best way to go. Albeit, there is the chance that a 7970m fix might be released soon but how long did it take for AMD to show any sign that they even were aware the problem existed? 2 months, maybe 3? That right there convinced me to go with a 680m because I don't want to wait for 'what if' solutions that may never come.
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