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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?

I haven't tried anything above 1.05 but no reason it wouldn't work i guess, funny how you want a higher voltage and i want a lower one!

I have restarted since and the xml file seems to have finally saved my choice of 975. However when I'm playing a game it is still using the 1v. Will closing and restarted ccc fix this issue? Edit: after a bit of testing it seems this method will allow me over overvolt to whatever i want but if you try to undervolt below 1v it will just revert to default, I have tried every combination in the xml file of 0975, 975, 0.975 and 950 in case it will only drop in 50's. however it just reverts to 1v as soon as the 3d clock come in, bugger, really need a way to undervolt my card. Using a dell card in a m15x on the latest 13.3 drivers btw.

Will this method allow me to undervolt? I have a card with a vbios at .21 so i can't undervolt yet by flashing a bios. edit: just tried it, for some reason when i change the voltage from 1000 to 975 its not taking effect, according to hwinfo its still using 1v and i'm also having a issue with it reverting back to 1000 in the xml file at random times, anyone got any suggestions how to make the undervolt stick using this method?

If I flash my dell card that had a stock 015-21 with a modified 015-17 bios will it cause issues with the card?

I have got a dell 7970m with a part number of a1-118 and stock vbios version 015.21. I am looking to undervolt it due to thermal throttling in my m15x. Any idea when this will be possible? If I upload my stock dell 015-21 vbios can anyone modify it to .975v and raise the thermal throttle limit from 75 to 80 degress?

Hi Genetics, thanks for your reply, yes that is the adapter I was using, can you please let me know what driver and vbios combination you are using.

I am using the alienware official dp to hdmi adapter and have tried it on 3 different tv's and still no joy. I have heard reports that svl7 has the display out working with sound from an mxm upgrade card but I can't get it to work. Looking for solutions really. I've tried a good few drivers and vbios but can't seem to hit the right combination to get it working.

Hi, I have installed my 7970m and cannot get the display out working, I got a card from mxm upgrade, with the orginal vbios on the card, a Clevo one I can get video out but not sound, when I flash the Dell bios to get sound through the display port i get display when its booting but once windows kicks in the display goes black, I saw that user : nidcuim had this issue a few weeks ago, it their any fix for this? I am using 12.11 drivers and just the standard vbios's. Thanks