^^Seems the most logical answer to it all. Now I've been back from the toilet after a massive dump but I'm still awaiting the dumps from OEM 7970m users.
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DirtyTrickster Notebook Evangelist
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Yeah I know. I just wanted to make a toilet joke
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unless you can convince them really hard or do them a favor they cant refuse
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have you guys tried RAGE yet? it seems to be bugged or something and I can only get 20-35FPS :-s
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King of Interns Simply a laptop enthusiast
Lol Jaybee and widezu as Brits your toilet humour is fit for America
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@Long, congratz bro!! That 7970m is looking sweet in your sig
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I just wanted to say that this thread is totally awesome, and makes me so glad that I discovered the NBR forums.
Coming from Apple products, I'm used to pretty much not being able to upgrade anything. It drove me crazy, considering my proclivities towards DIY. I'm going to be happy as a clam now that I can pop out the GPU on my just-ordered M17X and upgrade to the "latest-and-greatest" a year or two down the road. Pretty sweet. -
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feel better now?
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Haha yeah feels like I've offloaded a huge amount out of my...
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How does one fix the really low brightness issue?
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We havent found out yet. Although it may come out randonly as you put the card to work.
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Something exceedingly strange with mine, The temps rise to about 75C before the fan kicks in before cooling it to around 65C. You guys get the same?
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My fans kick in around mid/high 50s sometimes low 60s and lower them to high 40s/low 50s
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Hey guys, I've got a problem. My card scores 5721 in '11. My CPU is clocked at 4Ghz. And when I overclock, I hardly yield any higher. What are you guy's CCC settings? Graphics Test 4 is like only 15fps
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dude! dont u dare go grazzt here on us!!! watch out for ur card
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SlickDude80 Notebook Prophet
What are you overclocking the card to? Are you using the MSI afterburner method as outlined in my guide? when you set the clocks, you hit "apply" in afterburner?
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Well I got the performance back on top I think. Stock is around 5757 in '11 which is fine methinks. I have my CPU @4Ghz. My card hits the ceiling @975/1500 where I score 6550 which I reckon is respectable
within GTX 580 scores which I am very happy about.
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SlickDude80 Notebook Prophet
that's good news widezu, what was wrong originally?
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Any thoughts on why your overclocking procedure doesn't work on an R4? Here's what my afterburner looks like after changing the .cfg and registry:
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Installing 12.5 modded might have been a bad idea for your system. Should have stuck with Dell drivers and adjusted your powerplay settings/disabled integrated using hotkeys. Best you can do is revert back to the stock Dell installation.. That works fine with HWINFO64, etc
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I formatted the drive and went with Dell drivers. That is my current status.
I'm not sure what you mean about those other adjustments and HWINO64 does not see the 7970 at all. There aren't really any powerplay settings to adjust.
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Just look around the forum instead of constantly making the same topic
http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m17x/662646-m17x-r4-graphics-question.html
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Same topic as what? Those are completely unrelated.
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You've posted like everywhere, just a little confusing
Does it show them under device manager? Maybe click the scan for hardware changes button?
HWiNFO64 should see it, it sees everything, sure you have it? HWiNFO64 Download Try latest and beta -
That's strange, HWiNFO64 didn't see it yesterday or earlier today but does see it now. I'll call that a victory :lol:
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Wow man i gotta say, playing BF3 ultra settings with FPS never drop below 45 is surreal :O
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+ your only running on SINGLE CARD with no driver support whatsoever!
I'm getting around the same FPS on my current rig with dual 6990Ms.
Low 40s and upward spikes to 100+ at times but mostly stable around 40 - 60fps with every video setting set to max.
I can't wait to hear what DUAL CARDS can dowith BF3.
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so apparently 7970M can be overvolted according to slv7. He posted on techinferno forum. Holys***!
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Oh man, sweet.
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SlickDude80 Notebook Prophet
interesting...thnx for the info
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i tried to open the config file and it just asks me what program to open it with because it doesnt find any. No option to open as admin.
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ummm....notepad? ^^
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SlickDude80 Notebook Prophet
dandan, put a shortcut of notepad on your desktop. Right click on it and "run as administrator"
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hey slick anyway I can get rid of the '7900 MOD' line?
. Its kinda bugging me.
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SlickDude80 Notebook Prophet
go to:
8.97-120418a-7900-MOD-W7-W8-Vista-x32-x64\Packages\Drivers\Display\W86A_INF
open C7137336.inf (if you are running windows 7)
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AMD6800.1 = "7900 MOD - AMD Radeon HD 7970M"
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oh thanks man! thats easier than expected. Though apparently I have to wipe out the driver completely in order to do so. Oh well there is always the next fresh windows install
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Hey all.... how come in Catalyst Control Center there's not an option to only use the AMD graphics?... I'm plugged in 24/7 and changed the Power option to Max Performance while being plugged in but I'm still having to set defaults for programs... one simple check box is all we need... 8)
Any word on a modded A02 bios for the M17x R4?
[GUIDE] Installing and Overclocking the AMD Mobility 7970 in the M17x R3,an illustrated guide
Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by SlickDude80, Apr 24, 2012.