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Clevo and MSI cards are usually identical, and are interchangeable in Clevo and MSI systems. You can even cross flash video BIOS.

I am not aware of a Clevo version of a card working in a Clevo where the MSI version of the card did not.

This may have changed with the 900 series, but I don't think it has.

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I'm also interested in the thing , MSI made some series of 980m with 4Gb of RAM onboard - I've got the opportunity to get one of those with some nice price tag but I've got no idea if it fits my P170SM. If anyone tried that kind of a trick, please speak up:)

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Thanks, actually I've heard about a guy who did that - flashing 8gb rom unto 4gb card did not brick the card:) On the other hand, he didn't really say how the card was behaving.

Depends on the vBIOS:

- Best case scenario it will cause a lot of artifacts and finally crash the card once it tries to use address space above 4GB.

- Worst case >>> brick

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Depends on the vBIOS:

- Best case scenario it will cause a lot of artifacts and finally crash the card once it tries to use address space above 4GB.

- Worst case >>> brick

Yeah,it didn't sound like a good idea in the first place, but hey if the guy was brave or stupid enough...:)

It turns out the MSI 980m comes from GT72 upgrade kit - I will give it a go.

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By the way, don't happen to have a 4gb flavor of your brilliant 980 Vbios;)?

Make a dump of yours and PM me alongside ASIC readings (GPU-Z) and maximum stock 3D voltage under load (NVIDIA Inspctor while running render test).

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 . . . So provided you could design a way to power the GTX 980 125w cards found in the GT80S, there's no reason why they shouldn't work in a Clevo laptop from an electrical and vbios perspective.

 

I remember reading somewhere that all Clevo laptops after the p37X variants (including the p37x variants) employed the true MXM standard - meaning any MXM card that also followed the true MXM standard would work in those laptops and there would be no bios/vbios compatibility issues or bios SLI profile issues.  Is this true?

 

If so, I might start looking into how to procure two GT80S GTX 980 mxm cards.

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On 10.08.2015 at 10:27 PM, Khenglish said:

Clevo and MSI cards are usually identical, and are interchangeable in Clevo and MSI systems. You can even cross flash video BIOS.

Hi,

I bought nvidia 870M card that originaly cames from MSI. Because I have Clevo I thought about changing MSI vBios to Clevo P150EM. Maybe then this card could be recognized by BIOS. I've checked revisions of vBios https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/?architecture=Uploads&manufacturer=&model=GTX+870M&interface=&memType=GDDR5&memSize=3072&since=. Strange thing is that Clevo vBios (~166kb) is much bigger than any other for MSI (~94kb).

Are you sure it could be crossed with no harm?

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What do you mean it isn't recognized? The BIOS saying the same string means nothing. It will work anyway if you install a driver.

 

Crossflashing vBIOS typically does nothing beneficial for Clevo systems. That was just an example stating how similar the cards usually were in the Kepler days.

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Well, the Windows itself sees it as default graphic card. Device ID is not included in standard nvidia .inf file dedicated to Clevo. I thought that maybe changing vBios to Clevo version could change the Device ID and resolve my problem with incorrect drivers.

 

Are the Maxwell cards for Clevo and MSI also similar?

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I installed a GTX 970M (3GB version) MXM card that was pulled from an MSI into my Clevo 151EM (w/ Prema Mod BIOS) with no issues.

 

Details on this page:

 

Procedure:

- after physically swapping the MXM modules (with proper heatsinks and brackets) and using new 180w power adapter

- uninstalled any current Nvidia drivers in the system

- modified the inf of the official Nvidia.com drivers

- installed the driver (I'm using Win7 Pro x64)

- restart, it works now for games and benchmarks. (And Optimus graphics switching works fine if you use the official Nvidia drivers)

 

Temps:

- Idle ~42 C

- Load ~81 C (with FurMark - Burn-In mode)

 

Done. :)

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Hello and help

I have a Clevo x7200. I started with a GTX 580m and had to downgrade to a 560m do to failer. I recently purchased a MSI GTX 680m and have seen that it is possible to get it to work. Reading through the forums have helped but I am second guessing what to do.

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On 7/7/2017 at 0:46 AM, th12052 said:

Hello and help

I have a Clevo x7200. I started with a GTX 580m and had to downgrade to a 560m do to failer. I recently purchased a MSI GTX 680m and have seen that it is possible to get it to work. Reading through the forums have helped but I am second guessing what to do.

Pretty sure all it needs is a modded inf in order to work. I was able to get a MSI GTX 680M to work in my Sager NP8150 with modded inf.

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