Recent content by svl7

I assume you guys never actually owned a mobile system with a powerful GPU. While there certainly are systems that can't handle an overclock too well due to thermal limitations, there are many notebooks that can easily take an overclock including increased voltage with no issues at all, without...

True, cause Clevo still messes up the MXM implementation in the BIOS, it's horrible. The system shown above is a P570WM, and you need the latest mobo revision to get the 880m working. Yet in my Alienware M15x from Sept. 2009 the 880m works perfectly fine. Quality firmware matters. While eurocom...

That's unfortunately not completely true. Eurocom is just a Clevo reseller, and Clevo has in the past never cared about complying completely with the MXM specifications. There have been many issues over the past years, and I don't see this changed with the current machines. Some examples: Users...

Well, depends on your preferences. I noticed that boost is sometimes downclocking when it should not, resulting in a noticeable fps drop. I don't think that when running 3d applications the clocks need to drop at all, I wonder where Nvidia got that idea... Yeah... never seen something like that.

Grab this vbios and you'll be able to set it to 1.212V. It's weird, some cards can't go up to 1.212V unless you use a tweaked vbios. I don't like what Nvidia is recently doing regarding restrictions etc., it gets worse all the time.

In "Options" you'll find a checkbox that says "Disable PPU", it's checked by default, so you probably never run that test on your GPU if you never change any settings (unless it was unchecked in old versions of Vantage). If I'm not mistaken it stands for "physics processing unit" and if it is...

Running the physics test of Vantage on the GPU instead of the CPU... that's eurocom.

Great, works fine. Temperature, clock readings etc. all there now and running. Information on the main tab complete as well. :toast:

Hi, just got my hands on a AMD 8970m, basically the same board as the 7970m but with some changes in the vbios. Clock monitoring is currently not working, along with some other information in the main tab. Voltage monitoring is working correctly. Here's a GPU-Z screenshot:

Nice review, such a limited voltage control is a shame... especially for a board like this. Can you please add the two vbios to the database?

@renz496: Well... since this is Nvidia we're talking about you can bet that it will be totally crippled... The other question is of course what happens if you put a Tesla vbios on that thing. Most likely won't work either.

The vbios version should be 80.xx.xx.xx.xx and not 90. :rolleyes: Another fake.

Oh right... GTX 680m. The driver doesn't matter, it's only happening with the latest vbios.

GPU-Z crashes for me every time I want to start it, happens with the latest version (0.6.6) but also occured with the version I had before (0.6.4). Message is as following: Seems to be vbios related, didn't get it with previous vbios versions. Screenshot attached.

Sounds interesting, can I take a look at it? What exactly are the differences to the stock VBIOS?