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Awaiting unlocked A09 from modder extraordinaire

The Plextor M5P is definitely a good choice. It is speedy and uses the newest iteration of the Marvell Controller with Enterprise standard hardware. It will be a good buy if you decide to get it. However, I suggest you wait though. The Samsung 840 SSDs are coming out soon and the reviews show it is preeeeety good. Definitely what I'm getting next.

Sounds good! Keep me informed. Personally I love this particular method as it is nice and tidy (and I invented it ) but if you can at the bios level then it would be even better. I'd love to do some testing if you want @svl7. You know how to contact me

No, rename the "PAR00MEC.fd" to "PAR00X64.fd". Then everything else is the same.

No it's the MSI FD one slightly modified.

Yeah that's the issue. It's like SLi and CrossFire, multiple things take the lowest and multiply instead of just adding up the performance.

Yeah I know it would be better but all ports would get downgraded to SATA II. 4x SATA II is similar to 2x SATA III. What I'm trying to achieve is make use of all the ports and not have any speed bottlenecks.

That is exactly what I mean. Now @sgogeta4 I can get 4 256GB drives but the problem is the ODD and mSATA port are SATA II so the speeds will be downgraded. I'm trying to get the absolute max out the speeds.

Well RAID0+1 exists where there are two pairs in array then mirrored but no clue about the actual possibility RAIDing something that is already a RAID. Don't know though. I guess one would have to try.

Was wondering, would this work: If I was really ambitious I would get 2x 128GB mSATA drives, I would bios RAID the mSATA with the ODD. This generates a 256GB RAID0 volume with speeds practically the same as SATA III at around 500MB/s. Then I would RAID my two existing SATA III 256GB SSDs (which are not in RAID) with the new RAID0 volume giving me 768GB of space at 3x times the speeds, I estimate around 1200MB/s. This is only a theory and probably totally un-achievable.

So over at NBR I asked a question about the optical bay and what speed it was and apparently it is SATA II, same as the mSATA slot. So that got me thinking, it is possible to have two RAID volumes? RAID the standard SATA III ports with two SSDs and then grab 2 mSATA SSDs, put one in the mSATA slot and the other in a ODD caddy (with adapter of course) and RAID those? The end result would be something like: 2x 256GB SATA III SSDs speeds ~ 800-900MB/s as one 512GB volume 2x 256GB SATA II mSATA speeds ~ 400-600MB/s as one 512GB volume Although not the largest possible SSD combination (applying this theory can actually net one a total of 1.5TB of SSD storage) but definitely the most performance (256 and 240GB SSDs still have much more IOPS IOPS compared to their 512GB counterparts). So is this feasible? I just may try it. The time has come for The Beaver to once more attempt to assemble the most powerful single GPU laptop money can buy. Aside from this, CPU should be the only other upgrade that I actually need.

Roccat Kova[+] @400DPi normal, maybe switch to 800DPi when gaming and 1600DPi when in a tank because the turret swivels too slow

The X7200 is still a last gen machine. SATA II (although you also had SATA II in the R2) but advantage is in the fact that the LCD can be easily replaced, naturally the desktop CPU as well as probably the most important - more lenient bios protection; it is easily unlockable so I've heard, and it does not blacklist GPUs like Dell does with their bios releases. This is particularly important if you wish to use a 3D display. Other advantages include triple channel memory and what looks to be enough room for waterblocks if one is dedicated I had once thought about getting the X7200.

I have the same aftermarket card and 3D. 3D works perfectly fine with and official nvidia driver or the one in the OP.

I just like things clean. Sure usability and one click functionality is also great plus braggin rights and just awesomeness but I guess I'm lazy. I do however have a custom alienhead start button that glows when pressed.

I'm guessing you are using Rainmeter?

Wow impressive but definitely not for me, I like the minimalist look. Simple Windows Aero, no icons, use the least amount of RAM possible even though I have 8GB

Well then it is most likely that it is the threshold of the voltage as this vbios has a lower voltage for the better sustainability for the card.

I made a thread here with a guide to using your GTX 680m wisely: http://forum.techinferno.com/general-notebook-discussions/2062-using-your-4gb-gtx-680m-its-safest-full-potential.html Don't get threads mixed up though, all Kepler vbios discussions should still stay here.

So you've got hold of a 4GB version of a GTX 680m, figured out how to flash the vbios and it runs well. However, there are some things missing such as GPU boost and the ability to actually install drivers easily. Perhaps you are reluctant to run a vbios that ups to voltage to 1.037v. This thread aims to have everyone owning a 4GB GTX 680m get the most out of their GPU including enabling a GPU boost hack. This is not an overkill thread, but more about getting things working well with a good performance, quality and stability improvement over stock. There will be no crazy high voltages so everything should be safe short and long term however I take no responsibility for burnt or bricked cards. Please proceed at your own risk, there will be vbios flashing. First of all, the GTX 680m is similar to the desktop GTX 670 but severely downclocked. By OC'ing, one can get the core speed up to speed and beyond but clocking the memory @3Ghz (6GHz effective) in an attempt to reach its 192GBit/s bandwidth is very risky and likely dangerous. However, if the memory is clocked to 2250 (4.5Ghz effective) then the bandwidth is identical to that of the GTX 660 Ti @144GBit/s. Both desktop GPUs have the same base and boost clock at 915Mhz and 980Mhz respectively. This brings me to the vbios. Kindly created by master hex maestro svl7. The vbios (attached below) clocks in @915/1125(2250)Mhz exactly the same as that which I mentioned above. Those specific clocks are also what makes the GPU boost work well (I'll get to that later). The vbios is engineered from the MSI ES(FD) vbios and has a voltage of 1.025v and settles @1.0v during constant load. Not amazingly(potentially dangerously) high but there is still plenty of headroom for overclocking. Flash this, and verify with GPUz. Of course the memory clock can be anything but I chose 1125 as they are nice and neat as well as offering a mild but significant boost in performance. Next, drivers. The recent nvidia drivers are great but digging deep into the source code, we find that there are image quality hacks that trade image quality for performance. Plus some drivers just plain won't install if the GTX 680m is an aftermarket upgrade on unsupported mobos. These drivers are winners though: http://files.laptopvideo2go.com/Dox/geforce306.02.2-modded.exe Modded by the infamous Dox, all hacks are removed, quality is optimsed and support for all nvidia devices is included and should install without a hitch on any system. Drivers are uber stable but not great benchers as image quality is improved at some cost to performance. but I'd happily trade performance for decent quality and stability and use another driver to bench. And finally, enabling GPU boost. This method is not actually GPU boost but it functions in exactly the same way, call it "fake" GPU boost. What we need to do is to download Nvidia Inspector: NVIDIA Inspector 1.9.6.6 download from Guru3D.com Put that in a safe place and run it, allow overclocking and set the base offset to +65 to achieve 980Mhz, the same as the desktop cards. Now some of you may think that this is plain overclocking however, this is not the case. After applying the clocks (keep Inspector open), run a mild to moderately intensive GPU task such as playing HD video or opening the settings dialogue of Furmark (but not starting any test yet) and you will see that the clocks will still show 914.5Mhz. Start a game or Furmark and that will jump to 980Mhz similar to GPU Boost. Now click on "Create clocks shortcut" and a new shortcut should appear on the desktop. Drag that to your "Startup" folder in the Start menu and Fake GPU Boost should be enabled on every restart without any user input needed. I tested other base clock speeds ranging from 900Mhz up to 1000Mhz and and every boost clock speed from +1 to +100 and 915 -> 980 was the only combination that worked. Most other base clock speeds would always change to 928Mhz and without the 915Mhz baseclock, all other fake boost clock offsets would go to 966Mhz unless I went way beyond 1Ghz which I don't recommend anyway. Either it was coincidence that those clock speeds are identical to the desktop ones or that they are the only clocks that work on the GK104 which is why nvidia set them to the desktop ones in the first place. Please report back if you have any issues. I've only tested this myself but it should apply to all 4GB GTX 680m users. EDIT by svl7: Vbios is outdated, grab the latest one here: http://forum.techinferno.com/general-notebook-discussions/1847-nvidia-kepler-vbios-mods-overclocking-editions-modified-clocks-voltage-tweaks.html

That's pretty bad news

What system bios are you running?

Despite being a bit ugly, this: Delock > Produkte > Gehäuse > 42488 is probably the best single 2.5" enclosure there is. I mean it has a power in, an one single port that is compatible with USB 3.0, USB 2.0, esata and esatap (power over esata). Only thing really missing is support for really thick drives...but wait! It does have a thicker cousin: Delock > Produkte > Gehäuse > 42492 and finally, one with an integrated SATA 6GB/s controller. Delock > Produkte > Gehäuse > 42494

Looks good. Tesla Roadster is my ultimate car if I had unlimited money and a drivers license.

Haha nice. Why don't you swap them around? Use a single Mars for now with the GTX 670 as PhysX