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All done! :-)

Svl7, I just wanted to thank you again for this, it seems to have solved a lot of my issues without any drop in performance! if you have a paypal account i'd be happy to send you a few euro to have a beer on me. Without your hard work most of us would not have even considered trying the 7970m. Keep up the good work!

thanks, you are the man, I have the highest pressure on the dye that i feel comfortable with, the heat sink spreads even the smallest amount of paste over the full dye at the moment, should i want to get any more pressure than that? I will try that vbios tomorrow, getting a bit late now, thanks again. Is the thermal throttle limit build into the bios as well or is that part of the drivers? Edit: I just realized you have modified the bios on a version 22 when my stock version is 21. Do you know if it'll cause issues if I upgrade to the 22. Is it possible to make the change to the 21 just to be on the safe side?

Wow slv7 thats amazing, is there any chance you might be able to take my vbios that I uploaded earlier and make a change so the 3d voltage is at .975? If you could that would be amazing. Now that its coming into the summer i'm getting worried I might have severe thermal throttling on my card as it throttles @ 75 degress. Is it also possible to increase this limit to 80 or 85? Thanks in advance.

I edited my post with the vbios. Thanks for the modified bios for the performance menu, but I forgot I had to keep the -xcl part for the full restart. I was deleting it before I restarted and I think this was causing it not to unlock. Because I have this card in a m15x what im really looking for is a 015.21 bios with a voltage of .975. At the moment is slightly overheating in those long battlefield matches. svl7 do you think if I can get my hands on a 015.21 vbios with 3d voltage at .975 it will accept it and stick?

Here is my 15.021 bios with a voltage of 1v. Flash at your own risk, I had to put it in a zip to upload here. Edit: This is a dell vbios from a M17x but it is now running on my m15x, HWinfo64 tells me its running at 1.00v. ORGINAL.zip

thanks buddy!

I have a 015.21 with a stock voltage of 1v, I recently installed the 13.4 stable release and i'm not able to get the performance menu back in CCC using the /xcl trick with Afterburner. Anyone else have this issue?

Im on 015.21 and the -xcl trick unlocked the performance menu for me.

ya looks to be a dell card to me, mine is the same colour, are the fans controlled by the system or by you? My driver install menu is the exact same and DP works no problem, what driver version are you using? I'm on beta 13.3. Im not sure if anyone has been able to pinpoint the differences between the 015.21 and 015.22 vbios but you could try flashing a 015.21 bios and see if that helps. that is the only difference I can see so far. Sorry I can't be of more help, if you want more information about my M15x just let me know.

I have the 015.021 and no issues at all since I installed it. I am also using the current beta drivers. Are you sure it isnt a clevo card flashed with a dell bios? The cards are different colours as far as I can remember. Another way to check is to select custom installion when installing the drivers and hd audio for hdmi should be selected. If that option or something like that option isnt there its probably a clevo card with a dell bios.

what is the problem with it? I also have a 7970m in a m15x

Crap. It doesn't look like the new patcher is coming at all. Anyone fancy swapping a dell 021 bios 7970m for a dell 017 bios 7970m?

you need to unlock the overclocking ability in ccc using msi afterburner, then this will create an xml file in your app data/ ati folder, from here you can edit the voltage in the xml to what you want. Well except under 1.0v, I can't figure that part out. there is an exact guide written by someone on the net somewhere but for some reason I am unable to find it now. Edit: found it http://forum.notebookreview.com/gaming-software-graphics-cards/669344-7970m-benchmark-results-only-68.html

are they even working on it though? when was the last time we got an update on its progress?