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Bearfight

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  1. To any who want to try and beat my score... and I hope you do! Don't brick your new computer, please. I take no responsibility. Been working with this stuff all my adult life... if you aren't super-comfortable with this, re-think. Theoretically, your Y500 should be just as capable of reaching that score as mine. My P3239 is the highest of three consecutive runs. The score will vary by a few points each time. Use a cooler or place the laptop on a fan. Watch your temps on a second monitor, if you can. I haven't noticed any impact on the score when running dual external monitors. You must stop the CPU from throttling completely and set it to run at 3.2ghz. To do this, set C-States, BDPROCHOT and Turbo Short PWR Duration to "disabled" in the svl7 modded bios. Use ThrottleStop to lock your multiplier to 32x, 33x or "Turbo". 32x should put you at 3198.8ghz. 33x and Turbo do the same thing. It tops out at 3.2 ghz. I'm not interested in unlocking that limit at the moment, but I did see a 3DMark score from what looked like a Y500 that reported CPU at 3.3ghz. It was probably throttling. The physics and mixed portions of the test are CPU-intensive, so steady CPU is better than bursting in this case. Also, any bump in CPU speed will yield a higher score. As a side note, disabling hyper-threading yielded much lower scores across the board. The decrease in heat generation was not worth the performance hit for me. I had best results on the 310.70 Nvidia driver. I would NEVER recommend what I'm about to say if I hadn't experienced it myself, but... let windows upgrade the driver for you. (gasp) I was on the Lenovo 306.00 driver and had tried 310, 314, etc Nvidia installers, with varied results. In a moment of insanity I went into devmgr and clicked on the GT 650m, then upgrade driver, then search automatically. Windows found the 310.7 driver and replaced the 306.00 driver without much fanfare. After a restart I was surprised to find that my Windows driver update was working beautifully... that's when I achieved the posted score. My previous experience with Windows updating video drivers has been overwhelmingly poor... so poor that I disable those updates on my client's computers. This time it worked nicely... dunno. I'll take it though. I used the latest Nvidia Inspector (1.9.7.0) to set clocks at 1150core and 2700 mem. Anything higher and there is simply not enough voltage to get it done. Hoping to be able to bump up the juice a bit eventually, but to be honest these gains are impressive as they stand. Crysis 3 runs on maxed out settings without issue. Planetside 2 with the "ultra" settings mod runs excellently and never drops below 25FPS. Pretty good for Planetside. Those battles get busy! Please be careful and feel free to ask any questions. I check in here once a day at least. PM is ok too, but your question might benefit the group, so consider posting in the thread -bearfight
  2. I just achieved the highest 3DMark11 public score, so far, for a Y500 with just 1x GT 650m. A very respectable P3239 at 1150mhz/2700mhz, while resting on a cooling pad. Could not have done it without svl7's work on unlocking the bios. Thanks again to you, good sir. Fine work, indeed. We could actually crush this score if over-volting becomes available. When it fails during stress testing the temps are still in the 60 degree range; it just needs a few more drops of power. CPU is another story... gets super hot super fast and can saturate the GPU over time. A decent laptop cooler pushes enough fresh air to keep the CPU happy at a rock-steady 3198.8mhz while topping out at 85C under load. Not bad. Without cooling help the CPU temps will reach 90-95C under load, though. Too close for comfort. One core spikes up to 100C and boom... auto-protect killswitch shuts ya down hard. I'm still amazed by the potential of these GK107-A2's. So who's gonna knock me off the hill? Go for it! Let's get one to P3400 plus!
  3. Thanks for the offer. Also, thanks for your work on a tool to help everyone out. PM sent.
  4. I have the same Error 28 issue. I've been reading every Intel document on Flash Descriptors, ME 8.0 and related items that I can find... collecting tools like FITC and iMETS where I can find them. When I try global reset (-greset) or variable read (-r "variable") using FPTw, I get error 26, which is CPU Read/Write Access. I get the same errors when booting into WinPE, but I compiled the PE disc using DaRT, so it's still a Windows 8 environment. I like to back away from these things after a few hours to clear my noggin, so that's as far as I got last night. I'll try some other things tonight. svl7- Would booting into pure DOS allow me read access to check variables? I can see that you are hesitant to post the workaround that you have come up with for write access, which is understandable. Any arrows in the right direction would be supremely appreciated. - - - Updated - - - You will most likely just end up with the default key. The way I understand it, the UEFI BIOS interacts directly with Windows 8 to activate the OS. Correct me if I'm way off here, but it isn't as if each BIOS comes programmed with a unique OEM key... at least not the one that you would pull using a key tool from within the OS. That being said, as long as person who modified the BIOS didn't screw with the SLIC, there should be no problems.
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