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Brian/svl7 I have an idea as to why this might be happening. Do you think it is due to the SLi cables ability to link/sync the two cards since after all it is a laptop and desktop sli connections are more robust. Maybe the sli-link has reached its bandwidth limit during artificial testing like 3dm11(due to how powerful these cards are) but does not show itself during games, causing the throttling/fluctuations in those tests. Sadly this theory does not hold true for single card laptops, but the fact that dell and clevo cards have sli coding in their VBIOS might explain this too, as NVIDIA took these steps to ensure that if ever these cards were put in SLI config they would be ready and operate within limits of sli sync limits. MSI does not have this issue because they have no sli coding in the cards?

Brian, nice thing is I have not had it throttle yet in game in sli? Have you?

Single card did not let igp work seemlessly. Bios was fine.

Works fine on R2, great work svl7. Svl7 is it possible to use this OROM since it is a newer version than the 11.5.0.1347 that you used: Newer one: 11.5.0.1582 (official version according to intel release notes) posted by DarkSkies earlier: http://206.108.48.66/temp/Eric/P55DA726.zip

Svl7 - postal is using your 850mhz bios it seems, me and him have discussed a bit and his scores are awesome on old driver 302.72 he scored 44k gpu score and 13.3k gpu score on 3dm11. Postal if you could please post your graphs of gpu core clock during a 3dm11 run and 3dmvantage run so we can see how the clocks are behaving it would be great. (graphs from msi afterburner or nvinspector of gpu clock speed)

Something interesting found in unlocked bios on m18x. Under advanced - IDE you can change the sata device from hard disk drive to solid state drive on each port if you are using one. Might be some optimizations for ssd users from this.

Maybe some incompatibility with the built in MEI firmware and the new OROM?

This possible for the m18x r2 as well?

Oh okay, thanks for info.

Svl7 is there a way to change memory/vram modules voltage for the 680M cards while not touching gpu-core voltage?

My Asic is 100% lol according to gpu-z

Svl7 here are some: intel drivers pour Raid/Sata/Ata/Ahci (first downloads on page)

Just wondering if you do flash in windows is it generally safer to be running on the igp or video cards.

Awesome svl7 you have done it again

Howd it brick scott? Bad flash or bad bios - which has been fixed now.

Hey svl7 any hints/findings related to kepler boost in there?

680M has been removed from Dell website on both m17x and m18x. I hope they are not releasing a new version of the card without power throttle this time...

Was anyone able to get a msi 680M working on a dell m18xr2/m17xr4 system yet?

Awesome clocks/scores Brian.

Did you try 302.72/77 drivers? They seem to work best with the 680M so far.

Saltius made a mod @823mhz which works extremely well: (Some of us who have been in communication with him already have this file like myself, svl7, and widezu). It is for the OEM Alienware m18x 680M cards: Send me a PM if you would like to try it.

I would avoid cleaning the speaker grills with anything other than a light graze with your microfiber/lcd cloth. Parts of it are very thin and can break with moderate pressure.

That support article actually refers to an older A01 bios, but we are discussing the A03 bios.

Did you try BIOS reflash to A05? Might help.

shipwreck those underclocks on less demanding games are a feature of kepler. If it is not happening in the most demanding games all is good brother