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  1. Just by coincidence I was messing around with CPU fine tuning and then I loaded OC GPU profile and ran Crysis 3 which froze on me 3x so I had to switch back to stock. Now I'm not sure what exactly went wrong because I used to play it on OC w/o problems but my educated guesses are: 1.My CPU tuning wasn't that fine. 2. Cooling is going bad 3. New GeForce driver I installed Btw while benchmarking it in XTU (781 points) my CPU temp reached 104°C. I don't think that's a healthy temperature for CPU.
  2. Naah. I'll just dial it down a bit. It's nice to know what this beast is capable of but I don't know of a game it couldn't run at max details without hiccups even @stock. Oh yeah, there is one. Witcher 2 if you turn on ubersampling it changes to a slideshow. I wonder what computer can run it with this feature on.
  3. @svl7 Please look at my screenshot and tell me what you think. I like the performance but I'm kinda worried about those max temps. It's totally stable though I don't think I need it to run at this edge while playing games. I mean... I ran the crysis benchmark and it made 65fps average with everything on max (1900x1080). Btw, I think this is the very first time in my life when I actually think "Ok. I don't need more speed" https://www.dropbox.com/s/2k1pdcn2jbsdkdc/newbench.jpg Oh... I forgot to mention. I'm running your Clevo 680m - 80.04.67.00.01 'OCedition' revised_01 vbios. Thank you.
  4. @Clevorr I was fiddling a little with Intel XTU and it looks like I'm getting better scores if I LOWER core current limit. (from 112.000A to 73.000A) This had the biggest influence on my CPU performance. I also upped Turbo Boost Power Max to 60W and Turbo Boost Short Power Max to 77W. This way I've gained ~10 secs in wPrime 1024M test and ~1500 points in vantage. When I tried Additional Turbo Voltage, it actually slowed my CPU down a bit. Oh btw, my cpu is i7 3840qm.
  5. ^^^That^^^ I've just ran crysis benchmark tool and in 1900x1080 on MAX everything ~65fps average. 860m SLI FTW.
  6. @anos: How did you achieve 45k+ in vantage? With PPU on? I'm asking because I have i7 3840 with 42x 41x 40x 40x multis, 990/2250 on GPUs and best I can get in vantage was 36861 with PPU off.
  7. It looks like the ribbon cable I'm talking about but the black piece of plastic on your picture is very different. Mine is much smaller and it doesn't have those two pieces on its sides which are supposed lock it in place. I'd post a picture if it wasn't such a PITA to have it taped in the way it actually works. Imagine you have only the front part of it without those locking tips Not kinda U shaped like yours but just straight piece of plastic which looks like it should fit directly inside the white part but it won't (or I didn't figure out how) I'm sorry for this noobish question but what do you mean that I'll be limited to 135MHz on the core? GPU-Z and Afterburner shows me my core clock @719MHz.. I didn't flash anything yet. Oh you meant +135 in Afterburner. Nevermind then.
  8. I see. NVidia inspector doesn't work for me for some "unhandled exception" Afterburner works. I will try one of your custom vbioses as soon as I'll be able to download here. One more question though it's OT. My laptop wakes up from sleep everytime I move the mouse or touch anything. I didn't find where to turn it off. I want it to wake up ONLY when I push the power button. Any pointers please?
  9. Sorry I don't have enough privileges to view your image but I'm assuming it's the cable no. 10 (LED cable). The black bar "lock" doesn't want to click back and lock the cable in no matter which way I'm trying to push it in. So I taped it and made a little "chunk" of tape which I had to place on top of the cable in order to keep proper contact. The CMOS battery connector is in but I'm guessing the contact is bad because there is nothing to hold those two wires pushed against the socket properly. I guess I'll have to just live with setting up clock every now and then. I'll have to read that Kepler thread. Right now I'm kinda worried to flash anything to my new super expensive laptop because I know I could easily end up with super expensive brick. Btw what bout MSI Afterburner? I guess without upping voltage there is nothing much Afterburner can do... What about overclocking the CPU? I'm guessing I'd have to flash different bios right?
  10. You're absolutely right. I just tried just that (enabling PPU in Vantage) and my cpu score jumped up to 63913 and overall score was 41036. That's a pretty shady from Xoticpc (they actually made the video). And what is worse, they act like they don't know what's going on and I really believe, if I'll persist questioning them in order to get up to their score, they'll eventually have me to RMA it. Now I have a couple of questions for you svl7 (or any other guru) In order to get up to their score, I was trying to figure out what I might have misconfigured. I've tried to slightly overclock GPUs (with nVidia System Tools) and my GPUs are now running at 648/2160 (maximum setting). I also tried to find a way to push my CPU a little bit and I found Intel Extreme Tuning Utility and the only thing I did dare to change there was to push multipliers to 42/41/40/40 (also max) so my CPU can run up to 4.09 now. Is there anything else I can tweak and are my tweaks pretty safe so far? I mean... not that I have to. This beast runs Crysis 2 with hi-res texture pack on dx11 at absolute maximum settings absolutely smoothly. I don't know exact FPS though as I don't care that much about that as long as the game is playable. Second thing is, I had to reset BIOS because I DID mess with memory timing and my results were NOT good In order to do that, I had to unplug the backup battery and I now I can't plug it back in for the life of me. Also, by accident, the ribbon for keyboard illumination came loose and I can't put it back securely enough (the lock won't... well lock). Temporary solutions - I just taped the ribbon with a piece of tape and I have to set up system time everytime after I shut down and unplug. Anyone with permanent solution? Thanks.
  11. I've received my new 9370 last week and since then I was trying to replicate results achieved in this video. (Benchmarks start around 22.20)My highest overall score was over 34000 but my CPU score never went over 25000. This is especially concerning because they run it on i7 3610 while I have i7 3840. Now what give and what can I do? Btw, I'm emailing back and forth with techsupp and last time they told me it might be a software running in background.
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