Dell 7710 gpu upgrade

It says limits: power:1 in furmark and the clock is only getting to 1012 mhz on the core. The gpu is testing at 54 degrees with no increase in temp while stress testing. I have a 330w laptop charger for this comp.

 

Do you have any power saving / power efficiency settings available to you in the sBIOS?

 

What is the sBios? i am unfamiliar with this term.

Update: please disregard
i didnt have the power cable plugged in at all XD

 

Woops! lol

Well Im sure others will now look forward to your results

 

Hmm. So I have a problem when the system reboots, there is a black screen instead of stuff on the screen when the igpu is disabled. Is there a fix for this or?after a forced reboot. The screen is alive again so something is def up. I cant disable the ifpi through the bios because then I dont get anything on the screen while the system is booting. And it still boots to windows during this

I got double the performance of the m4000m with this 1070 in furmark

 

New issue. If I have a monitor connected to the hdmi port the graphics work as expected, but if I dont, the graphics are horrible, talking about 7 fps in heaven on the main monitor. I need to be able to disable the dgpu in the bios to make the 1070 drive the main screen. But when I do that, the bios doesn't show anything on screen anymore during post and in the os. It does boot however, I just need a fix for the igpu disable issue....

 

Maybe you need one of those headless HDMI adapters?

Regular 1070 should be about double the 980m iirc but could be wrong.

 

Try this if you are running with graphics switching disabled with UEFI:
DISABLE UEFI secure boot
ENABLE legacy option ROMs

See if that takes care of your problem. I had to do this with my old K5000M and a custom vBIOS, or there would be no display until Windows booted.

Have you tried running something other than Furmark? IIRC the NVIDIA driver sometimes likes to throttle for that app specifically.

 

i have tried heaven. and a game. it only works if directly connected to the dgpu. but it doesnt work if connected to the laptop screen. these are enabled by default in the bios if i remember correctly. and how would i get a custom vbios for my card and how would i flash it?

it is according to my benchmarks using hdmi

 

This is with graphics switching turned on? It's easy to mess up Optimus when doing the INF modification which would force anything running on the laptop screen to use the Intel GPU. This happened to me when I upgraded my K5000M to M5000M. See my M5000M upgrade thread (linked in signature) for details... Unfortunately I don't know much more than what is there, applying to my specific upgrade.

My K5000M custom vBIOS was just increase the maximum clock speed, but it was an earlier version that didn't play well with UEFI, hence the BIOS changes that were needed. I had to make similar changes on a friend's desktop PC when he upgraded it with a newer GPU, so something in my head to try now when there are strange display/boot troubles with NVIDIA GPUs...