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Incredible work, thank you so much!! Is there any possibility of an EC mod to change the default keyboard LED color on the P150EM? As far as I can work out, changing the KBLED colors (in software) is done by making an ACPI call and toggling reg/green/blue on and off by sending a 0/1 for each of the 3 keyboard sections (left=0, middle=4, right=8). The clevo software that does this, "hotkey" is a bit intrusive in my opinion as the only reason I have it installed is to set my keyboard to the light blue/aqua color, and even to do this basic task it installs a service that constantly stuffs rubbish into the windows event log, and takes over the management of power profiles etc. I'd happily donate for such a mod, if possible

I did try that, same problem Hopefully I'll be able to provide you some better information when I get home and see the exact error. Hey! I'm not sure what the 370EM heatsinks look like, but with the P150ME the 'contact' part of the heatsink is a copper plate with two heatpipes soldered to the top. The the bottom of the plate (the part that actually contacts the GPU core) should be completely flat but mine was concave - i.e. it was higher in the middle than it was at the corners of the plate, meaning that there was too much of a gap to the GPU core when the plate was screwed down. As it is copper it isn't too difficult to straighten out but I assume almost impossible to get 100% flat without specialist tools as there are screw tags on the bottom. I just used my hands and some force to adjust the shape, and the flat edge of a steel ruler to keep checking the surface from different angles - making sure that the flat edge was in constant contact across the entire plate with no gaps in the middle. Hope this helps, it is a little difficult to describe. If you could post a photo of your heatsink I could maybe offer a diagram?

Sorry, I meant bioses from the 2nd post not the first Thanks for the reply, I'll post the crash log/output this evening when I get home from work. FWIW xfire is a game-oriented instant messenger, and uses an in-game overlay similar to what Steam etc do. Disabling the in-game overlay stops the crashing, as does going back to my original vBIOS that I backed up (80.04.29.00.01 unmodified). I haven't tried your modified 80.04.67.00.01 yet, as for me the 80.04.33.00.10 undervolted BIOS is perfect other than this crashing. I've also tried just about every driver version from 302.77 to 310.70. - - - Updated - - - After seeing the state of my GPU heatsink I'm going to check my CPU one too even though temperatures seem OK. I've also done the foil tape 'fix' on the GPU fan, temperatures dropped a further 2 degrees and it seems a little quieter now too! I guess there is less air disruption

Apologies if this has already been reported or discussed svl7 (searched thread and couldn't see it) but it seems that when using any of your clevo 680m bioses in post #1, xfire crashes any directx game within a few seconds - must be something to do with the in-game overlay that it uses. Is there any known fix/workaround for this, or am I able to provide you any data to help troubleshoot? Thanks!

I solved my issue. Turns out my GPU heatsink wasn't even close to being flat, it is (was) quite concave. Straightened it out and my load temps are down from 89 degrees (and throttling) to 68. @drgnblues1 you may want to check your heatsink too before you go permanently modifying anything. Everything seemed ok with mine - it was spreading paste out nicely and it is hard to judge how flat it is thanks to the screw/mounting tags on the bottom of it but if you hold a perfectly flat edge such as a metal ruler across the bottom of it you should be able to tell. Thanks to svl7 for putting the heatsink contact pressure/area in my mind, led me to find the answer

Thanks for the reply I'm using a P150EM, and am having issues with throttling at stock clocks. I've pasted and repasted and repasted, it definitely isn't a thermal compound issue. What is the retention mod you mention?

Are you running the latest P150EM bios? Always worth a try

Forgive me if I've missed some obvious info, but do these vBioses remove the 89/90 degree throttling on the clevo 680m?

The Asus ROG vulcan is apparently quite good, haven't tried one myself but it gets decent reviews

Can anyone recommend any tutorials/guides? I've literally no idea what I'm supposed to be doing. Set up a character and chose a server and then constantly had some voice bleating about a generator....

Another vote for the G500. Excellent mouse, good drivers although logitech seem to have dropped support for it in the latest setpoint. Is it no longer considered a current product?