phila_delphia Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Hi there!I`ll not get me an 880m as thanks to svl7 my 680m performs really great. Yet I think the Maxwell architecture to be quite promissing. Is someone out there who wants to share any experience?I am hoping for a kind of 885m/980m based on Maxwell of course - but til then... I`d be happy to collect any news.Best regardsphila Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phila_delphia Posted May 27, 2014 Author Share Posted May 27, 2014 Still noone?Best regardsphila Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox2525 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 I found a thread in another Forum google : 860m is a beast! and you will find someone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderFluff Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 A co-worker of mine just got a new work laptop and it came with the 860m. It's quite powerful! Loads solidworks drawing very quickly and it hasn't had any issue with heating yet. Unfortunately it's a work laptop so he can't easily attempt overclocking it without our IT department getting upset :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookiemonsta Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 Got my hands on a W230SS with Maxwell. The thing overclocks like a beast. Haven't really pushed it extra hard but +135Mhz as per Kepler is possible. It also implements proper boost algorithm unlike its 650m sibling.Maxwell inst as brute powerful as the kepler equivalent but the core is utilized much better. Thus, you will notice more consistent performance. Additionally, the beefed up internal cache makes it much less vulnerable to Memory bandwidth on models with GDDR3 though I highly recommend getting the GDDR5 variant as much as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunks Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Got my hands on a W230SS with Maxwell. The thing overclocks like a beast. Haven't really pushed it extra hard but +135Mhz as per Kepler is possible. It also implements proper boost algorithm unlike its 650m sibling.Maxwell inst as brute powerful as the kepler equivalent but the core is utilized much better. Thus, you will notice more consistent performance. Additionally, the beefed up internal cache makes it much less vulnerable to Memory bandwidth on models with GDDR3 though I highly recommend getting the GDDR5 variant as much as possible.Hey Cookiemonsta,Could you point me in the right direction to overclock the 860m on the w239ss?cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethrem Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Hey Cookiemonsta,Could you point me in the right direction to overclock the 860m on the w239ss?cheersI'd imagine that he's using nVidia Inspector or EVGA Precision X on the stock vbios based on the +135MHz clock he said he can hit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
--- Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 I had a quick search on google that showed up that some Clevos with PREMA's awesome bios mod can overclock and gain almost 15% more performance than stock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeZ Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 A friend of mine got a GTX 860M and put the PREMA mod, the PC is running like a beast. I'll ask about the OC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewumpy Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 One thing to keep in mind about 860m is that even though the 2gb maxwell is faster and more power efficient, it is soldered to the motherboard and cannot be replaced or upgraded with a mxm 3.0b card. The 4gb kepler however can be replaced/upgraded because it is mxm 3.0b. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadsmiley Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 A co-worker of mine just got a new work laptop and it came with the 860m. It's quite powerful! Loads solidworks drawing very quickly and it hasn't had any issue with heating yet. Unfortunately it's a work laptop so he can't easily attempt overclocking it without our IT department getting upset :/The 860M is completely useless for Solidworks. My P170SM-A loads them quickly too and utilizes the Intel graphics even though I have an 880M. You need a Quadro or similar professional card that is certified for Solidworks for it to take advantage of the card. I even tried an inf mod on the Quadro drives and still no love. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadsmiley Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 The 860M is completely useless for Solidworks. My P170SM-A loads them quickly too and utilizes the Intel graphics even though I have an 880M. You need a Quadro or similar professional card that is certified for Solidworks for it to take advantage of the card. I even tried an inf mod on the Quadro drives and still no love.After I wrote this I double checked... if you are using the eDrawings viewer like I am the it is a definite maybe. Running the sensors screen in nVidia Inspector I see a spike up to max clock and memory when I have the nvidia graphics selected in the nvidia control panel. I see the power mode P0 as well. It doesn't do that when I have Intel graphics selected. I need to do more testing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadsmiley Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 After I wrote this I double checked... if you are using the eDrawings viewer like I am the it is a definite maybe. Running the sensors screen in nVidia Inspector I see a spike up to max clock and memory when I have the nvidia graphics selected in the nvidia control panel. I see the power mode P0 as well. It doesn't do that when I have Intel graphics selected. I need to do more testing...Even with the GTX 880M card selected in nvidia control panel the GPU usage remains at 0%. So you really to need a professional level card to see any advantage in Solidworks (or the viewer). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svl7 Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Disable the Intel GPU in the bios and try again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadsmiley Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Disable the Intel GPU in the bios and try again?Not sure how to disable the iGPU in my Clevo. Poked around a bit. Still no McLovin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacey2911 Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Anything Maxwell should show substantial power efficiency clock for clock compared to Kepler, Nvidia have done quite well with Maxwell. There's still a bit of ambiguity around how well it will scale to larger platforms, but the 860m should be quite a beast for it's market point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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