Akhlz001

Hi,

 

I modded the bios on my clevo P651SG, however it says that if the Intel ME software is higher than 9.0 on the Haswell (4th gen intel cpu) models then you cannot overclock the BLCK. I have this model and my intel ME firmware is 9.1, is there any possible way to downgrade it to gain the overclocking potential?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Zeeshan

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but it makes a lot of difference on quite a few games, I got 10-20 fps increases on games like Mirrors Edge Catalyst, Mafia III, Far Cry Primal, this meant that I could put the settings to ultra using my overclocked 7970m without any stuttering or fps loss. It might be an expensive processor but if you get it, it is definitely worth the money. Just make sure your temps stay below 85c otherwise you will not be able to turbo boost (experience from putting in a 2920xm in a GT780DXR).

So I tried the quadro k5100m the laptop turned on but didn't even load windows. Why is that?

 

If there is no mxm in the laptop it will load windows on a black screen 

Getting alienware 18x now with 7970m crossfire as this MSI is no use to me 

Wow, thanks for that doesn't the laptop get hot when there is graphical load?

 

7970M already reaches 95-100c when gaming

what about nvidia 1060, could it work, I know that a 120hz monitor is required though

By the way will the 980m work in my machine (gt780dxr)?

Is my laptop good enough for rendering though?

 

http://imgur.com/a/VoVCz

Ok thanks, may buy another laptop or may sell gpu

Is it worth it, I want something that is good for rendering and gaming, like a quadro m5000m card which would destroy the 980m

Wow those benchmarks are very good, unfortunately I don't have that much money, will the laptop I showed you (based on the GT70) work with the quadro K5100M

I just don't want the money to go to waste, I bought my GT780DXR for only £250 so I can easily make profit from that

Do you recommend using MSI or Asus

Hi,

 

Thank you for this advice, it seems as this laptop has failed me then, I knew I should of bought an Asus laptop, anyway I was thinking of buying this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CyberPowerPC-HX7-17-3-Gaming-Laptop-GTX-770M-i7-4700MQ-16GB-like-MSI-GT70-/322356319651?hash=item4b0def15a3:g:hBkAAOSwMVdYFM7T

 

Will this handle the gpu I bought, I have honestly had enough with MSI always overheating and breaking down, they are not reliable but they do have nice features and thats about it (even then the UK versions are restricted from simple things like a backlight keyboard). Never buying MSI again.

 

Please let me know if this laptop that I might buy will support the gpu.

 

Thanks

Hi,

 

Well I think I'm screwed as I bought the graphics card yesterday, please help me make it work.

 

By the way the 680M does work in this laptop I have seen it work so maybe there is a chance??

 

The k5100m is from dell and I've heard that dell gpus work better in this model.

 

Is there any hope?

Also forgot to mention this isn't the barebones version, it is the ms-17612 I think, the one that DOESNT have a backlight keyboard 

Hi,

 

Now that I upgraded my processor to a i7-2920xm I need a better graphics card than a 7970m for rendering and gaming. Firstly, will the DELL Nvidia Quadro K5100M graphics card work in the GT780DXR? Secondly, is it better than the 7970M in gaming (obviously in rendering it is far better).

 

I put a DELL 7970M in my laptop a few years back as an upgrade, it worked without any issues, I just need to know if the K5100M is compatible in my laptop (if the VBIOS will need modding or not) and if it will cause driver issues or not.

 

Thanks

Hi,

 

Thanks for replying, yes I tried everything, set the CPU ratio up but that did nothing, I can't even adjust the voltage of the CPU, maybe the laptop doesn't allow overclocking, it detects it and can only clock the CPU up to the stock turbo boost values.

 

I can't even access any options in Intel XTU all the options are grayed out. This is why I was asking for the bios which came with the extreme edition of the notebook. That could be my only shot as it is configured for the CPU. 

 

Another option is to manually modify the BIOS to allow multiplier overclocking but I have no experience of that whatsoever, I would also need to enable voltage control. 

 

Can anything be done?

Hi,

 

So I bought an extreme edition i7-2920xm cpu a few days ago. After putting it in the notebook it ran fine, but I couldn't overclock it one bit. I have Xonar's unlocked bios for the GT780DXR, I tried changing the CPU core ratio limit but this doesn't seem to have an effect on the processors speed, I even changed the TDP and that did nothing.

 

What can I do about this? Is there anyone out there with the MSI i7 extreme edition of this notebook which overclocks to 4.16GHz? If so can you please give me your BIOS?

 

Please let me know if anything can be done,

 

Thanks.

I have not seen other people do it to the non backlight version of the laptop, even though the flex wasn't there on the original non backlight keyboard the connector was.

 

I ended up breaking the ribbon cable accidentally so I soldered each and every led to wires which connect to an ic next to the touch buttons. This means that if I touch the backlight option (the sun symbol) the keyboard lights up. You can solder the led's to a usb connector but will need a CAPACITOR for it otherwise it would fuse the LED's.

 

Luckly I had the facility to do this because I work in an advanced board repair phone shop. I WILL be posting images to help other people do this aswell so they don't waste there money on a backlight keyboard which is useless.

 

Thanks for replying Senso I appreciate that but now I have solved the issue without having to tamper with the EC controller.

 

Let me know if you have the same issue, there are ways around it and the colour changes too

Hi,

 

So basically what happened was that I wanted to get a back light keyboard for my MSI GT780DXR (i7-2670qm, 7970M, 16GB ram) laptop, I knew that the UK version didn't have it so I bought it. Anyway, I have connected everything, the keyboard seems to work fine but the LED's do not light up, have I done something wrong. Does the EC controller need flashing so the back light works, if so how would I go about doing that because when I try flashing it through DOS it give me a filename mismatch error (I know this means that I cant flash different EC software on the chip). I just want to know is there a way to force the back light to work, this is quite frustrating and I know it is possible to make it work so don't tell me it won't.

I just added a back light keyboard into the UK version of the GT780DXR, the back light doesn't work, you reckon if I flash the back light EC Firmware it would it work?

 

Please reply quickly, i may need to manually replace the chip

As I own a simliar Alienware, all I did install the card into the laptop and it worked you need to remember to install it properly and also use a psu with 180w or higher (if you want to overclock) otherwise you might have bottlenecks. When I put the card in it worked without any issues, didn't need to modify drivers, nothing. It just worked.

Thanks so much for this I got a core clock of 1150 and a memory clock of 1560 on my MSI now, got 10fps gains in literally every game. Thank you I needed this so much.