Kenny_h2o Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 So! I just made a big long post on my phone and it was deleted. Let me see if I can simplify.So I had issues with my laptop declocking and running sluggish. As per Mr.Fox's help I found out that all I needed to so was clean out the plugged heat sinks. Saved me a bunch of cash as I was about to build a brand new desktop.Now it's running better than new as I found out that my 2920xm wasn't factory overclocked as it should be. So I pumped that up to level 3 and it runs amazing.I decided that I'd like to upgrade to the 3 pipe cooler and was wondering if a dell or Alienware rep here could help me out. ( called dell Canada and USA 5 times, I can not get then to let me order it even with provided part numbers... I can hear them reading a program basically just saying my r1 won't support it and it won't work.)Same problem with wanting to order 7970m or 680m's as my upgrade. I would like to see how much and purchase from dell as I'm afraid of all these horror stories and what not from ebay.So, let me start with my issue. I won't get into what I typed out about FFXIV and that benchmark and the problems I'm having. Basically what I want to say is that I am having problems with crossfire or possibly my space not running?Now I scored about a 3k on 3dm11, MSI after burner stress test and what not only put my main GPU as 99 load... And secondary as 1-5 percent...?My fan on the right side rarely if ever is running...? Just left and middle.CCC always tells me that crossfire is enabled , yet GPU-z will show enabled before a bench and most times be disabled afterwards. Or simply just show disabled...I'm confused and worried, not really sure what I should be doing or if I'm not aware of something? Are the cards supposed to run that way blast one up to 99 percent load and just put the extra 1-5 percent on the slave?I'm running 13.8 beta drivers due to FFXIV updated support.Though this was all also happening on 13.6 and before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikaso Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 i know its a bit old thread but just saw it , ok see i cant help with the cross fired issue but i can tell u from my experience with the m18xR1 that i have now and i'm v. happy with it after i did some upgrades , i moved from the gtx 460M which came with 75W 3 pipes heatsink to the amazing gtx 780m and i cant tell u how amazing it is , using the same 75W heatsink and even the same stock AC adapter ( 240W ) after getting advice from some members here here is the threads i followed before upgrading (how to physically modify the heatsink if ur intending to use the same one came with it )http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware-m18x-aw-18/3519-gtx-675mx-m18x-r2-compatible-sort-%5Bused-75w-660m-heatsink%5D.htmlthis one for results , benchmarks and overclocking http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware-m18x-aw-18/3596-alienware-m18x-r1-running-nvidia-gtx-780m-let-testing-begin.htmlcheck my thread as reference for upgrading the GPU and the temperature results with games and benchmarks http://forum.techinferno.com/alienware-m18x-aw-18/4694-gtx-780m-temperature-benchmarks-m18x-r1.htmlhope that helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freekinrican71 Posted October 27, 2013 Share Posted October 27, 2013 i dunno what app you're trying to run, but i've been told a LOT of games don't support crossfire. i have the amd cards as well, and was kinda disappointed by that. SWTOR is my game now, and it doesn't support crossfire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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