jaybee83 Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 nope, the p170em is a single gpu machineSent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightFX Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 As of now only the cards bought from Mythlogic and Eurocom will work properly with your PxxEM systems as they decided to Partner up and join my early access program...all others will under perform by 20% on OCable driver (any other than 374), essentially turning your GTX980M into a GTX970M. That's the reason an honest shop like rjtech won't offer you the cards directly for EM as they can't guarantee that they work as advertised under all conditions.Brought mine from UpgradeMonkey (eBay), works fine and at 100% using standard clocks and driver 347.52upgrademonkey1 | eBayEach to their own..cheers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoggartBear Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Same state as Raz2Mak, I was looking at 980M's on ebay and upgrading to that instead of buying a new laptop all together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2D Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 So am I good to go with installing a 980 on my p150em? Bought the 980 from Rjtech for Christmas and I have just been waiting for the the mods to be fully ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khenglish Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 So am I good to go with installing a 980 on my p150em? Bought the 980 from Rjtech for Christmas and I have just been waiting for the the mods to be fully ready.It will mostly work without mods. Just make sure you have the latest driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2D Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 It will mostly work without mods. Just make sure you have the latest driver.I've heard, but I may as well do everything right if I'm going to do it.So I just need to flash in this bios:https://biosmods.wordpress.com/p150em/And then this one:https://biosmods.wordpress.com/mxm-vbios/And then I'm golden, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khenglish Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 I've heard, but I may as well do everything right if I'm going to do it.So I just need to flash in this bios:https://biosmods.wordpress.com/p150em/And then this one:https://biosmods.wordpress.com/mxm-vbios/And then I'm golden, right?Flashing the system BIOS will help with CPU and memory performance, but I am not aware of it helping with the GPU. Flashing the video BIOS in the 2nd link should help noticeably by eliminating throttling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybee83 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 i think in the case of the EM series it does help along with general compatibility for the 900M series...Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_p Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Just received and mounting mine from eurocom. Everything was sweet, just use the good driver 347.12. [ATTACH=CONFIG]14179[/ATTACH]3dmark firestike hits 7849, tomb raider reached 59.5 fps avg in ultimate and a max temp of 82°C are my first benchmarks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Just received and mounting mine from eurocom. Everything was sweet, just use the good driver 347.12. ...3dmark firestike hits 7849, tomb raider reached 59.5 fps avg in ultimate and a max temp of 82°C are my first benchmarks...Did you tell EC that you want to order it for P170EM? You don't need to use 347 driver with the Mythlogic or Eurocom version, just let them send you the correct BIOS & vBIOS and you'll have full performance with any driver that also allows you to OC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_p Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Of course I told them, there could be no misunderstanding on this, as GPU upgrades are sold for a specific laptop model. I'll ask. Do you find this temperature as high anyway? I've seen on the OC topic that this card is supposed to have some margin here, and a stock config running at 82°C seems to have very few margin here.Maybe I could directly flash it with the one found on your vbios topic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeyix Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Ok, so I've read through this entire thread and the sticky trying to understand everything possible, can someone confirm the following? I'd definitely love to be able to upgrade from the 680M I currently have to the 980M. I already have the Prema Mod v2 flashed in my P150EM, that's been there since last summer.From the looks of it, if I order, it should be from Eurocom or Mythlogic because they are working with Prema which I assume means they have custom vBIOS's already flashed to the cards. If that's the case, I presume that means I shouldn't use the MXM vBIOS mod on Prema's website. I've seen the Eurocom upgrade video and from what I've read, with these cards bought from these resellers, it is purely plug and play and just install any driver. The BIOS won't recognize the card but Windows should since they don't require a modded inf file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 That's correct. The Mod BIOS recognizes the card as nVIDIA, no inf mods required and full performance with any driver as well as being fully OCable (on non 374.xx driver). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duffman_777 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Ok, so I've read through this entire thread and the sticky trying to understand everything possible, can someone confirm the following? I'd definitely love to be able to upgrade from the 680M I currently have to the 980M. I already have the Prema Mod v2 flashed in my P150EM, that's been there since last summer.From the looks of it, if I order, it should be from Eurocom or Mythlogic because they are working with Prema which I assume means they have custom vBIOS's already flashed to the cards. If that's the case, I presume that means I shouldn't use the MXM vBIOS mod on Prema's website. I've seen the Eurocom upgrade video and from what I've read, with these cards bought from these resellers, it is purely plug and play and just install any driver. The BIOS won't recognize the card but Windows should since they don't require a modded inf file.Well, now I'm confused. So if I were to flash a 980m myself using the MXM vBIOS listed on Prema's site I would get less performance/driver issues than if I had bought direct from Eurocom/Mythlogic? I just assumed that these companies had pre-flashed the cards with the same MXM vBIOS as the website... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 No worries, the my public vBIOS Mod can be already used. These companies send their cards pre-flashed with their own version, which they cover by warranty.Apart from that they also have a system BIOS Mod for their customer, which hasn't been released to public yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duffman_777 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Thanks for the (quick!) clarification! I will be picking one up soon - expect a donation =DMany thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_p Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Well in my case they didn't flash anything... I'm still waiting for eurocom support to come back on this. Anyway the card is working well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Well in my case they didn't flash anything... I'm still waiting for eurocom support to come back on this. Anyway the card is working well. Informed them yesterday, somebody in the team must have spaced it....anyway you should get it today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_p Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 you're great. Just send a donation. Thanks again for all your work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2D Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 OK guys, so I've flashed in prema's bios AND the 980 vbios. What should my next step be? The bios shows no card, what's up with that? The flashing went fine as you can see: Before After Should I be applying a driver now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 That's normal for the old Mod.Time to install an inf modded (non 347) driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybee83 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 he meant non 347 Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2D Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 That's normal for the old Mod.Time to install an inf modded driver. Right so I decided to try Mr. Fox's latest over at notebookreview but I am greeted with this: Why can't things ever be easy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybee83 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 u have to disable driver signature enforcement first (google is ur friend)Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2D Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 u have to disable driver signature enforcement firstBut I did that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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