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Hi,

I'm a little late, but if you're ready to give 15€, you can go on MSI laptop forum and ask to SVET his EC modding tool.

Yes, you can upgrade a 980 to a 1070=980 factory o'ced, fine. Clevo are good laptops, but they are not upgradable at all; i mean not over many GPU generations but the current one. you can do upgrade if, and only if the community find a way to allow it. Crap......

After more Clevo that i would like to admit, i quit. Going to give a try on a MSI GT73. yep with an heretic BGA cpu shit, but at least with the hope the pass one or two gpu upgrades. 

Right, what i meant was that the chipset was X79, so it corresponds to LGA2011 socket. My bad.

The Xeon can be good upgrades, but i would rather go to a 3960X  or 4930k, as you can find them for a good price, whit little search.

better ask to someone who own(ed) a 980 like MrFox, but if it's like the vbios of my 970m (Prema powered), voltage slider can go up to +212.5mV. My max OC is +370MHz/+300Mhz (core/ram) @+162.5mV.

Hi,

I would compare the 980 with 1070, which is as Prema stated a founder 980 OCed. But even with that said, a new 775dm3 will be twice the price of the 870dm.

Concerning the bios, as fare as i know, it doesn't exist a Prema 's one for the newest Clevos. So if you really want one, you will have to wait or buy it separately from a partner shop for the 870DM.

200€ for ati firepro? I know it isn't the place for that, but if you're interested, i've got a 680m with clevo bios in perfect condition: could be yours for 150€ (port included).

Sometimes coil whining can occur due to high IPS: in some non-demanding games, when AC plugged, the GPU renders as much as images per second it can, that's when you may have noise. I had this in Diablo 3.

Do you have V-sync on? if no, try it, or if option exists, limit the maximum IPS of the game. You will gain in temperature at least...

P570wm has got a x79 socket: sorry my friend, 6800k won't fit your laptop. Maximum upgrade is  i7 4960x or some xeon x79 socketed (E5 V2 if i'm correct).

@ Mr Fox:

i can get your point of view, but for me, to go from 970m to 1070, HELL YEAHH this would be a fucking nice upgrade, with plenty of bonus points and and extra 10cl vodka with the orange juice!

Dremel, new heatsink, bios mod, vbios mod, plastic welding to harden laptop, i don't car if we're taking about hope: i really want a 1070 on my DM! And in a long tunnel, you begin to see a tiny flam before a brighter sun... but sometimes it rains.

@ Mr. Fox

Amen!

I bought my vga card from EUROCOM, they kindly provided me the bios V3 for the laptop and the vbios for the vga card.

Honestly,  i travel each week for my work, so i'm often in hotel room. An e-gpu is not an acceptable solution for me. I enjoyed the most to think i was able to take a descent gaming and future-proof platform with me.

Even if we were abandoned by Clevo like Alienware did, i will probably buy a BGA-nonsense laptop in a future upgrade: and if i have to do this, i promise, it will be not a Clevo!

1% i would have also accept the idea for every manufacturer but clevo... i'm a clevo buyer from P170hm era because off the upgrade possibilities. I've promoted Clevo every time i could. But seems that time is over.

they 're funny: they say 230w PSU, but they add 19.5V-16.9A, which are 330w spec. Guess they don't know how to use a calculator^^

EDIT: for my curiosity, .no is for Norway, and currency is Nok (just to find the price in Euro)

right. I always use that for flash.

Ok my bad, i didn't read carefully your first post.

Your reseller archive have more files surely do to the option to flash within windows.

If  your not sure about what files to use, you can grab a complet package on Clevo miror https://repo.palkeo.com/clevo-mirror/P65xSE/ .

• First make a bootable usb key, using for exemple Rufus. put then the bios files of the archive on the key's root.
• Go to your bios and disable UEFI, select usb key for first boot device.
• If you choose to use the download link above, you will find a "reame.txt", just follow the steps.
• After reboot, do the same for EC.

That's what i did for my p771dm, no problem at the moment.

Hi,

Concerning your operating system, does it use UEFI boot (common feature since W8)?  If yes then the default settings on Clevo are usually not good: UEFI is disabled. Just return to bios and enable it again, make sure "windows boot manager" is default bot option.

The 1080 is around 200w and the 6700k about 90w, well TDP watts of course but we only have this info, watts used should be below.  That said, i will never go for a 230w PSU when then cooling system needs to be able to dissipate 290w of heat.

IMO with the 1080 you should grab a 330w PSU.

On 15/07/2016 at 0:47 PM, Ziggy said:

Hi Prema,

 

I was previously unfamiliar with you and your work. Looks like you're doing some serious stuff here, I'm actually surprised.

I was just wondering if you would have time to confirm if this should work?

I Have a PC Specialist 17.3'' Octane II laptop, it is the Clevo P771DM-G with GTX 970M (G-SYNC) GPU & i7 6700k CPU.

So I have downloaded your vBIOS: GTX970M-G_6GB_MXM_DM_OC_PM_v2.

Obviously would like to know if it is the right file for my laptop.

Also is there any BIOS mod that would work on my laptop? Obviously BIOS is locked by American Megatrends..

And a last question to already long post..

Is it possible to swap my 970M to 980M and use your software to make it work on the very same laptop?

 

Sorry if some of the questions are obvious, I'm only good at hardware.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

 

Ziggy

 

Hi,

The vbios you have downloaded seems to be the correct one for your VGA card.

Prema bios may exist for p7xxDM series, but their launches are delayed for an unknown time (see forum for the reason).

And for your last question, you can swap to 980m without any laptop mod, if the VGA card has got the correct bios. P7xxdm are natively compatible up to 980m.

Hello,

The bios you flashed should not be the culprit. All my Clevo laptops were/are flashed with Prema work. Never had ,even once, a problem with drivers.

I had a P370em: it worked with v2 bios and lately v3 from Eurocom (vga cards bought here).

Could you post  cpu-z screens (CPU and MAINBOARD tabs)?

PS: i at the end you still want to flash original bios, you could find it, with little search, here or at Prema's blog.

5 hours ago, Prema said:

As a result of the unrighteous actions of Jacob Rosenberg (user @Exec360 ), who couldn't resist to break his promise & betray my trust, the public release of the Prema Mod (v)BIOS for all 49 Clevo Skylake gaming models, which was scheduled for the first of June, is hereby postpone indefinitely.

 

Prema Out!

Hell no!!!

I beg you , my lord, don't get out of this place!

Had this problem also on my P150em + 970m. At that time, i'd uninstalled intel's drivers with DDU, then reboot and let Win10 do the update. The GPU switch worked after that.

My P771dm display is running @100MHz using Nvidia control panel. It's an LG Display LP173WF4-SPD1. Not abble to go higher.