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    670m working perfectly on M17x R2

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by twin snakes, Sep 20, 2012.

  1. twin snakes

    twin snakes Notebook Consultant

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    just want to inform you guys that 670m's working perfectly with my 2 years old m17x r2. Just plug and play, brainless!
    - Fan working auto, HDMI works, VGA works, HDMI audio works also
    - Temp's ok: idle at 40 (room temp ~ 26), fulload at 65-70
    - 5870m's backplate and heatsink fully compatible, no mod needed!
    And it seem that my friend's 675m is working too (have just booted to BIOS) with fan auto! Pretty awesome!
    Gonna try SLI with hybridSLI driver soon since i got m17xR1's SLI cable already
    /sorry for my horrible english :(
     
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    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    Let see some benchmarks when you get a chance as well! Great job! Are the cards Dells or Clevos?
     
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  3. twin snakes

    twin snakes Notebook Consultant

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    here's some hot benchmarking
    3dmark Vantage
    3dmarkvantage.png
    3Dmark 11
    3dmark11.png
    Oh, and one problem only: the fan sensor. Although fan's speed is auto, but the sensor always report at max 100%, weird, but not big problem at all
     
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    NICE dude great job :D
     
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    Alienware-L_Porras Company Representative

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    It's great to hear that you got it working. :)
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Sep 21, 2012
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    twin snakes Notebook Consultant

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    another problem found! the screen's brightness always at 100%, decrease brightness via Fn+F4/F5 won't work! but still, minor problem.
     
    twin snakes, Sep 23, 2012
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    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

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    the fans will show 100% speed in a laptop no matter the card as the fan isn't controlled by the graphics card like Desktop GPU's. ;)
     
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  8. twin snakes

    twin snakes Notebook Consultant

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    damn shame, i made a big mistake here, the fan are not auto at all, it stuck at 2500rpm all the time, despite no mater how much temp is
    have to use hwinfo to control at the end.
     
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    I'm interested to see how this pans out. I hope there would be some sort of workaround for the fan issue.

    By the way, is the fan issue only for the 670M or for the GTX 675M as well?

    Best of Luck twin snakes!

    +_-
     
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  10. twin snakes

    twin snakes Notebook Consultant

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    has just test 670m with a M15x system, work perfectly with autofan control, HDMI, VGA... except that it's still cannot change brightness, same with m17x R2
    M15x, what a respectable system!
     
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    Definitely among the best in terms of upgrade-ability, if you ask me. Who would have thought these babies would be so versatile!
     
    sunster168, Oct 17, 2012
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    Im looking at upgrading my r2 to a 670m so was wondering how you are getting on with it. Ive not upgraded my laptop before so is there anything I should watch out for or any driver issues that i will need to overcome? Thanks :)
     
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    if all you're getting in 3dmark 11 is 2900 that doesn't seem like much of an upgrade.
     
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    This is from a m17x R2 running intel 940xm and a single HD 5870 3DMARK 11 Pieter´s PC.png
     
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    That score seems a bit low, which driver are you using?
     
    Alienware-Luis_Pardo, Apr 1, 2013
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    The screen resulution from that test was 1920x1200. The drivers version is 8.930.0.0.

    I just orded to GTX 670mx SLI :D
     
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    Let us know how it goes, though i have a doubt you get SLi to enable.
     
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    I will let you know, how to process goes :D
     
    sdfdsasa, Apr 4, 2013
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    I did bay the HD6970m instead. I figured out that there was to much to it, to get the to cards working together
     
    sdfdsasa, Apr 18, 2013
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