GT780DXR with ES i7 CPU

Just out of curiosty really I am able to get a 2920xm ES chip which has all the temp senors now I know the ES models were subject to extreme testing what I want to know is as these were ES models are these unlocked and able to be overclocked???

 

Any 2920XM is unlocked but MSI have locked the bios so no multiplier changing (even in a program like TS) is possible.

 

Darn even if I run Xonars unlocked bios as I haven't really looked into what options are now available in the new bios. I will see if xonar is able to locate the mulitiplier changes and see if possible to unlock.

 

You have to be a bit lucky for the ES as well, I got mine for £100 and it performs really great (19.3K gpu vantage) and I advised one of my mate to get one of those, but his is worse than a 2630qm (barely 16K on vantage gpu)

I advise you to go for a 2820qm QS or 2920XM ES which will be good but will stay at default clock and could be odd.

 

Anyone know how I can unlock the clock manipulation in the bios as mine is greyed out ( I am using xonar's unlocked bios) or is this greyed out due to my CPU being a 2630qm?? anyone with an xm cpu using unlocked bios had a look?

 

Get a QS chip they are better. laptopmonkey on eBay is FTWW

 

You need XMP memory to overclock using clock manipulation.

 

Been playing with AMIBCP tonight and xonar has unlocked everything in the bios so nothing I can do there.

Cheers for all your advice peeps

 

cheer for all the input guys I just ordered a 2860qm no point having the xm if can't clock it

 

good choice

Where did you get it ?

 

ordered through ebay

 

I agree, good choice. I bought mine 2 months ago when I naively thought that I could unlock the option, but I was left disappointed and stuck with the xm.

 

Yours performs great xonar, nothing to complain about it I suspect you got it cheap too

 

I just like my 2720 that stays at 3ghz even with 8 threads. 3.133Ghz with my small overclock actually .

 

Of course, no complaints, but I could have saved $100 in exchange for .1 ghz less. But hey, I didn't spend $1,000 so no big loss.

I feel like you can't go wrong with any ES; they perform great and are incredibly affordable. I've finally got mine to stay at 3.1ghz on 8 threads as well

 

Mine 3.0Ghz on 8threads

 

well the 2860qm didn't go ahead they said hey had none so I ended up getting a brand new 2820qm

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2820QM Processor,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-1761 score: P15988 3DMarks

 

Your 2820qm performs really well ! Did you go over the 4k on 3dmark11 ?

And how much did you finally get it ?

 

Nope. Please delete post

 

no still not hit 4k on 3dmark 11

 

I got a [email protected] ES. It's supposed to be 3.2ghz at 4 cores and 3.5ghz at 1 core. It didn't go past 3.2ghz under any condition with the default bios in my msi 1761. After updating to the unlocked bios, it does properly go up to 3.5ghz on single thread some times, but usually its 3.4ghz.

The 2760qm closest resembles this, but my cpu has 8mb cache instead of 6. It's a D1 stepping with AES-NI instruction set, so its practically a quality sample.

Also, does anyone notice that in prime95, the cpu turbo drops way lower than what it is rated. Is it because prime95 exceeds tdp rating for those turbo speeds? At 4 cores, it will drop way lower than 3.2ghz, but in a game like bf3 that uses 4 cores, it stays at 3.2ghz.

 

BIOS has pppower and tdP cPU limits. If you can change them

 

its a 2720QM ES i think.

 

Nope it's a 2920XM ES for sure

dragon why I can read M17x R3 in your sig instead of GT683DXR!!!

 

Because he bought an R3 :/ Then again the price of those 512GB M4s probably match the machine.

 

yeah as we normally say "a traitor in the mist" *run like hell*

no but really the main or even sole reason i moved to this is because of its HDMI input. I wouldnt have done it otherwise.