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Do you noticed a flicker at any point in the game? What I noticed was that sometimes the game lost focus and since crossfire only works when fullscreen is active the second card goes into idle mode. What I normally do is Alt-Enter to go into window mode and the Alt-Enter again to restore proper fullscreen mode which activates crossfire again. What version of drivers/caps are you on at the moment? Your shader theory could be right but I would assume you would get BSOD/Lockup instead of the card switching into idle mode quietly. Is the game patched to the latest version available? If not, try that as well. I think this may be more of a software related issue.

Yeah I also noticed those flowers and it reminded me of Duke Nukem 3D Now that I think about it I think I'm more disappointed in myself for not realising that Comstock was an alternate me. I played through the game again trying to find something that clearly pointed that out and I still couldn't find anything solid until the very end. Maybe Back to the Future / FRINGE / Sliders screwed up my understanding of time travel and alternate realities cos its still confusing

Have you played the Mass Effect series? I'm generally not a fan of third person shooters but the story and the fact that choices you make in the first game is carried across to the second and third games was quite refreshing.

Dishonored? Its a good game, similar to the Thief series although not quite as good.

Completed Bioshock Infinite on Ultra at native res with CPU at default Dell settings and FPS was 60FPS on average (vsync on). No shutdowns at all and no BSODs as well. Power consumption was always under 240W when I glanced at the Kill-a-watt and around 220W on average.

Just finished it and I didn't like the ending. It was disappointing. Don't get me wrong I'm a huge sci-fi fan and am familiar with the concepts used and usually love deciphering these things but the execution could have used a little work. I even replayed the ending after reading a few reviews/explanations of it and I still feel I was robbed of the ending I was looking forward to. I guess I was so set on saving her punk ass that anything other than that screwed it up for me. I have to admit though, now that I think back on all the hints and pointers throughout the game these guys took it up a level. Thoroughly enjoyed playing through the game although I would have preferred something similar to the original Bioshock's ending but seeing how they laid the groundwork throughout the game the ending seems fitting.... but not to my liking

Technically the M18x R1 software for the OSD is the exact same install file as the R3. So yes, those instructions are correct.

Has anybody resolved the "card stuck at 0.975v" issue? My primary card works at 0.975v and won't reflect any changes on 3D voltage when I flashed the modded Dell vBIOS from svl7's mod pack but my secondary card does. I've reverted to stock vBIOS as I experienced some screen issues after a few boots on the modded Dell rom. Both my cards are Clevo's. I've swapped the cards around and the issue follows the card so I'm thinking it has something to do with the card and not my machine/OS. Currently my primary card is running at 0.975v and my secondary card is at 1.00v in 3D mode. What makes this even stranger is the vBIOS I'm running is the exact same stock P270WM 7970M vBIOS on both cards which is supposed to be running default 3D voltage of 1.025v... I think. Another issue it that randomly either card will get stuck at 0.900v on idle 2D mode when the default is supposed to be 0.825v. I am able to adjust the voltage for the primary card using using TRIXX after using the Afterburner -xcl parameter but this only works for the primary card.

If you haven't already, you could install the driver for the 780M provided by Eurocom under safe mode and hopefully Windows loads it before the standard VGA driver on normal boot.

Thanks The 330W is coming soon so I'll try to increase the voltage on the cards to turn them into Ghz editions I ran the 950/1400 on 1v each so I should still have some room for improvement. edit: Just finished Crysis 3 on High settings at native res with with 920XM at default Dell settings. The GPU's were at 800/1200 with the primary card at 0.975v and secondary at 1.00v. No shutdowns or throttling at all with this config. The beginning of the game is quite harsh with drops to 30FPS in "Welcome to the Jungle" especially when looking at expanses of long grass. From "Only Human" onward I was getting a solid 60FPS. Beautiful game... beautiful M17x R2

I received a Kill-a-watt clone today and ran some benches with CPU at 24/24/24/24 with 85 TDP and stock GPU clocks. Below are the max power draw on each test. 3Dmark11: 241W Bioshock Infinite benchmark: 261W Crysis 3: 274W Then I got a little bit excited over imsolidstates fix and ran 3Dmark11 with 25/25/25/25 with 90TDP and both cards at 950/1400. Power draw was 270W max on the first test. It seems the first test draws the most power, combined test draws around 245W. I'm running the 13.6 Beta2's. This 240W is pretty impressive.

Do you still have to remove the AC and reboot if you shutdown from safe mode? Also are you running the same windows install as when you were running your 7970M? If you are, boot again into safe mode and remove all AMD drivers. Run the AMD Catalyst Clean-up Utility, ATIman, Driver-fusion or whatever you use to clean all the AMD drivers out and try booting again normally.

Thanks for taking the time to resolve this issue @imsolidstate, this is going to help A LOT of people So I guess its not possible to just mod the 240W ID chip inside our M17x chassis since the ID line will remain high and deliver only 240W. So we have to crack open the 330W to ground the ID line. Would it still work if I grounded the ID line coming into the chassis? To be more clear, break the ID line connection within the chassis at the power jack and ground the ID line connection coming in from the PSU to drive the line low and enable the higher power output. Then mod the 240W ID chip as you stated below. If this is possible I wont have to crack open the PSU.

Welcome UniverseUV777 Are you running stock settings on both the CPU and GPU? I don't think stealth mode affects these cards but make sure it is off anyway. Also are you getting any sort of warning that the PSU is unsupported or is it working fine and charging your battery? If you look at the detailed view in GPUshark what is the 3D voltage set to?

Please write the exact steps you took to install this mod and I can maybe tell you if/where you are going wrong. edit: It seems the OSD you were referring to was the default Windows 8 OSD and not the Alienware version. A few Alienware owners are having an issue with the OSD and Windows 8. Try the solution posted by Dell here and then attempt installing the mod.

Hey AlienHack sangemaru tested it and he said he was only able to increase voltage through the CCC profile method and lowering voltage had no effect. You can always give it a try though. Maybe try the 13.4 cats to see if afterburner and the -xcl parameter works. If I remember correctly you're running 13.6 beta2's atm?

@Darksnow47 Can you try "atiflash -unlock 0" I can't remember what I was searching for but came across that for users who wanted to flash their desktop 6950's to 6970's and that was the first step. Its worth a shot.

So I got my first official shutdown with the 240W adapter GPU's were stock and CPU was 24/24/24/24 with a TDP of 90W. I was paying Crysis 3 with everything on high except shadows which I set to low. After about 30 minutes there was some throttling on and off for a while before the complete blackout. PSU indicator light also went out.

Are the instructions correct on the first post? Does Dell's OSD installer install into the directory I mentioned? I've no way to test this I just assumed it would be the same as the R4. I'm not sure if Windows 8 has some built in restore functionality once you replace the file. But I doubt they would do that for the Program Files location. Try to overwrite the existing exe with the modded one instead of backing up the old one. You can always run the Dell OSD installer again if you want the old one back.

Yes, its the same OSD thats available from Dell for the 14, 17 and 18. It works on Windows 7 and 8 64bit.

R5 aka 17 OSD mod added to the first post. If anyone has this abomination please let me know if you experience any problems The exe is also compatible with the 14 and 18 as well.

If all you want to do is adjust 3D voltage on your card through software you can run MSI Afterburner with the -xcl parameter, reboot and then open up Sapphire TRIXX. You will be able to adjust clocks and 3D voltage through TRIXX. As a bonus CCC will also have OverDrive enabled to adjust 3D clocks. In order to adjust voltage with CCC you would have to create an oc profile and then edit the profiles xml file. The TRIXX method is much simpler.

Okay some test results for throttling. GPU cores at 950Mhz and XM at 25x on all cores 90 TDP. I'm running 13.4 Cats. I reverted to 13.1 since I received BSOD's again with the 13.6's when trying to change resolution in Crysis 3. I'm still receiving BSODs on 13.4 and 13.6 but not on 13.1. GPU-Z graphs for the 3Dmark11 run The GPU's don't seem to be throttling but the second card went a bit crazy during the physics test. If you look at the GPU load there's some activity but the first card isn't affected as much. I cut out some idle time and the Date/Time column to make the graph look cleaner. The original logs are below if you want to check them out, maybe there's something I missed. I've also run Crysis 3 on high with these clocks and logged using GPU-Z and there didn't seem to be any clock drops. I'm not quite sure how this is possible with a single 240W, I actually need to get a Killawatt or one of its clones to test how much power this PSU is giving me. Also I repasted my GPU's again and added some thermal padding to the VRM components to the best of my ability. Its still not 100% though. I need some thicker pads for the mosfets. GPU-Z Sensor Log1.txt GPU-Z Sensor Log2.txt GPU-Z Sensor Log1.txt GPU-Z Sensor Log2.txt

Welcome sarhan It seems you have a Dell 7970M. I would suggest you to flash the stock vBIOS in SVL7's 7970M vBIOS pack here. With regards to your temps you may need to repaste to try to lower your temps as Dell 7970M's are reported to shutdown when reaching 80c-85c in our machines. Furmark is very stressful on a GPU though. If the games you play run at good temps I wouldn't worry about it.