Modded driver for 580m gtx

I have an 3mf8r 580m card that I sold on ebay. I had tested it on my m15x however of course I could not install the driver to fully test it. The buyer said there was distortion when he installed it on his m17x-r3. I have no distortion with the standard windows vga driver however would like to fully test it with furmark. Can anyone point me in the right direction for a modded driver to work with it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Too much power draw for it to work on the M15x, i believe its been tried by a few people who eventually stated its a no go.

 

I know it can boot up from what I have read. I just need to stress test it for 15-20 minutes is all so I can sell it again, if it is good

 

Does the 580M draw more power than the 7970M? Because people have M15x's with 7970M and they're just fine...

 

I am not sure how much power it draws but the thread at the link below says the issue is "The 580m video bios support 4 P-states(p12,p8,p1 and p0), the m15x only recognizes the first 3 p-states and ignores p0 which is 3d clock". I guess that is the only problem. That is fine for me as long as I can run some light tests to find if the card will artifact under a load. The thread has other people who have it installed and was running BF3 so it should be all good to go with the modded driver/inf file they used just don't know where to get it and no one in the thread is responding to my messages.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m15x/650700-m15x-nvidia-gtx-580m.html

 

Yes, the 580m draws more than the 7970m. They're also not 100% fine, throttling is a real problem, especially if you're doing a CPU + GPU intensive task.