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I never suggest cloning with ssd, clean is the best way to go here.

Yup, no CPU throttle fix, pretty disappointing if you ask me. I left a nasty comment on ideastorm aswell, venting my frustration.

on NBR, some one posted that minimum fan speed has been changed, but nothing much.

Respawn cd/DVD/USB will only install on same or larger drive. You are stuck with a clean install, followed by drivers from website and then create a new respawn disc.

or you can shrink the original drive, so all of the partitions total to ssd size and then create respawn disc. But afaik respawn only allows to create 1 factory install disc.

Sorry forgot to mention I have 4930mx and 780sli

I just reached home and checked, I have A02 bios , but still up for testing any bios, I have spare laptop till December so even if I have to send it back for motherboard replacement, I got no issues

I am up for testing if you pm me instructions and file

havnt checked but pretty sure I get a02.

That is good idea but I havnt looked at the mesh in detail yet, I want something that stops least amount of air coming through and still look good and protects the bottom

King reported his gpu temps didn't go above 69 degrees (@900/1450) with his awesome cooling mod. I'm thinking of making a few intake holes in my case where heatsinks are to increase airflow over heatsink itself.

Just need to think of the best way to make a neat hole in plastic.

I would love to do that but I am still looking for a decent mesh to cover the bottom holes.

No I don't know you

I do have some phobya pads on order. I don't have any pads under the card, once I get new pads, I plan to add some, under the card as well. I am using as5, with what I consider a decent paste job, but will check again later today and repaste it again, screws are long enough, makes full contact with proper pressure on the die and VRAM.

I can into get AS5, MX4, Arctic Silver alumina, noctua nt-h1, indigo xtreme iaxm3 and manhattan tim locally, thinking of grabbing a tube of indigo ixam3. Icd7/24 is not available in aus, buying it off eBay (only icd7 available) means few days wait. I will try to grab a tube of indigo on the way back from work.

I use furmark to test stability and temps at full load, no other reason. Right now I use it as a quick burn in test to see how high temps are going, on my m17x, it goes to 71c after 6minutes of full load with similar dell 7970m and then it stays at 71c.

I will try some intake testing to see how it goes, if it stays under 80c for 60minutes while playing games, then I will be satisfied

I installed Dell OEM 7970m (recent stock, 4 weeks old card) in M15x and everything went smooth, till I ran furmark and the moment temp reached 85C, it shuts down. Tried flashing vbios to 0.975v and same time, Just tried 0.950v and exact same thing. But with 0.950v, it took almost 12minutes to reach 85C while with stock and 0.975v it takes less than 5 minutes to reach 85C.

I installed the card using standard dell thermal pads kit and standard M15x heat sink from 5870 by removing C clamps from old screws and using new smaller screws.

What to do now?

I was told dell doesn't offer Samsung 840pro raid and 680m sli due to incompatibility issues, not 100% where they arise from. It has to be something related to firmware dell puts on the ssd's.

^^truth, you don't want m18x doing the bouncy on the floor. And yes shoulder bag will kill your shoulder, just get a good backpack or a daypack with laptop sleeve, your shoulder and back will thank you.

Aloe respawn bask version has been always free, but pro costs money. For home use, I feel basic version is good enough. Just a bit picky with bluray media.

My Orion backpack did last me 4yrs before I gave it to my sister, now it's in pieces within a year. I got a Targums backpack, larger than Orion backpack but can carry m18x and m17x at the same time with 2 power bricks but with so much it's a killer on the back, single m17x/m18x is no problem.

Hi, I am from Australia, the land of kangaroos, although we don't jump ourselves

I came here looking for Ava's guides on vbios flashing and started wondering, how I missed this place for s long.

To be honest? I think most of us put our notebooks through worse just carrying them around every day.

Right on the spot, we abuse our babies much more than this guy.

Moreover, *to me*, it looked like the guy was showing off his uber packing skills to the camera man/woman?