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    AMD 7970m available for buy

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by flingin, Apr 20, 2012.

  1. bigtonyman

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    does the card still get warm like there is power going to it?
     
    bigtonyman, Apr 27, 2012
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  2. maxheap

    maxheap caparison horus :)

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    yupp it did
     
    maxheap, Apr 27, 2012
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    Nice score GeoCake :)
     
    skaun, Apr 27, 2012
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    must. have. it! :p cant wait! :D
     
    jaybee83, Apr 27, 2012
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    DirtyTrickster, Apr 27, 2012
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  7. GeoCake

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    It gets a 7.9 gaming/graphics on the Windows Experience Index if anyone cares... previously only the 580M in SLI could do that :p
     
    GeoCake, Apr 27, 2012
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    So did my 6990m A few Weeks ago when it died
    Almost same symptoms as you are seeing nothing when booting up

    I had some random success with removing card, running drive sweeper in safe mode, reboot without card, then shut down install card, and install drivers

    I eventually had to send to Dell for gpu and motherboard replacement
     
    Cereallll, Apr 27, 2012
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  9. wtferrell

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    Wow. Just wow. Very nice GeoCake
     
    wtferrell, Apr 27, 2012
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  11. Heihachi88

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    You bought it from Table21?
     
    Heihachi88, Apr 27, 2012
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  12. GeoCake

    GeoCake http://ted.ph

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    GeoCake, Apr 27, 2012
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    M.H Notebook Consultant

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    great numbers. thanks for sharing Geocake.
    ..I want one of those :D
     
    M.H, Apr 27, 2012
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  14. Heihachi88

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    Is table21 out of dell 7970m'S?
     
    Heihachi88, Apr 27, 2012
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  15. GeoCake

    GeoCake http://ted.ph

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    Yup, I am pretty sure he is. Me thinks he was sold out a day after he told SlickDude he had them. :p

    3DMark06 is too old so I am not gonna bother with it.
     
    GeoCake, Apr 27, 2012
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    He is :(

    I asked a few days ago
     
    DirtyTrickster, Apr 27, 2012
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  17. Heihachi88

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    Well, lets wait for our clevo's 7970m
     
    Heihachi88, Apr 27, 2012
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    A few pages back, someone had said that if NBR had 10 or more members buy a card from upgrade your laptop, they would offer an extended warranty. Has anyone heard anything else about that?
     
    DirtyTrickster, Apr 27, 2012
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    That is what they told me, received a few PMS but nobody seemed serious about ordering, I still haven't put ordered
     
    Cereallll, Apr 27, 2012
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    aw man, why didnt u mention that before? me and another NBR member just ordered ours yesterday and today *rolls eyes* whats the standard warranty they give, anyway? 30 days? 90?

    cheers
     
    jaybee83, Apr 27, 2012
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  21. Heihachi88

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    i already ordered == paid for them.
     
    Heihachi88, Apr 27, 2012
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    30 days they said, i think thats enough to full stress test the card.
     
    Heihachi88, Apr 27, 2012
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    I wonder if they can add existing paid orders into the group

    It was mentioned a few pages back.
     
    DirtyTrickster, Apr 27, 2012
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  24. maxheap

    maxheap caparison horus :)

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    yeah I guess.. for you it was also not showing in the device manager then you go through driver sweeper clean install and so on and it appeared?

    anyway I am already thinking the case is hopeless..

    @Geo, NICE WORK BRO!!!
     
    maxheap, Apr 27, 2012
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  25. onego

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    Umm hey can I please know if the fan control works properly in the M15x with the Clevo 7970M from upgradeyourlaptop? Many thanks!
     
    onego, Apr 27, 2012
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  26. Cereallll

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    Exactly
    It would show up, work for a little. Then vanish again after about an hour
     
    Cereallll, Apr 27, 2012
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  27. SlickDude80

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    Congratz Geo... :D

    Great scores...let the good times roll
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 27, 2012
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  28. littleone562

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    What brand Ram chips do you guys have on yours?
     
    littleone562, Apr 27, 2012
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    hynix...these are Dell cards. This ram will go up another 20% easily
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 27, 2012
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    They got Hynix
     
    Heihachi88, Apr 27, 2012
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  31. littleone562

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    oh, I thought they were clevo's which reseller has these dell ones, also has anyone tried putting them in an m18x R1, do they have the heatsinks for the m18x r1 as well for the cards?
     
    littleone562, Apr 27, 2012
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  32. Heihachi88

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    They got their Dell cards from a Table21 guy here. But he's already sold them all.

    So only way is upgradeyourlaptop with clevo oem cards, dunno yet what type of memory they've used on their cards.
     
    Heihachi88, Apr 27, 2012
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  33. GeoCake

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    They have used Samsung memory in the past, probably same for their 7970Ms. Not sure yet, no-one has used one.
     
    GeoCake, Apr 27, 2012
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  34. SlickDude80

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    The heatsinks are the same as the 6970/6990 heatsinks. If you have an m18x R1, it should be pretty much plug and play.

    I even have the driver they used for ES m18x R2 xfire 7970m testing. let me know if you need it and i'll put it up on mediafire for you
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 27, 2012
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  35. littleone562

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    sadly I have the 580M's, lol Nvidia must be getting angry at these threads.
     
    littleone562, Apr 27, 2012
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  36. Heihachi88

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    SlickDude, you have just installed those modded drivers when u plugged in your 7970m? No need to install dell native drivers first now because our IGP is off?
     
    Heihachi88, Apr 27, 2012
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  37. SlickDude80

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    no...follow my 7970m install guide. The stock dell drivers will not install with the 7970m. IGP is temporarily disabled until we get official ENDURO support

    You need modded drivers to work with this card. You install the modded drivers only...nothing else
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 27, 2012
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  38. Heihachi88

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    just had a look at your guide - you have updated it, thanks. AMD's enduro would work with our IGP like now with 6990m? or it will work just by lowing core/memory clocks?
     
    Heihachi88, Apr 27, 2012
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  39. bigtonyman

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    It will be more like optimus as it will switch between cards automatically. ;)


    Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S2 using tapatalk 2
     
    bigtonyman, Apr 27, 2012
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    What does that 20% do to the power consumption of the card?
     
    wonderpookie, Apr 27, 2012
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  41. bigtonyman

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    Uses more power at full load I believe since the card has a higher clock speeds. Temps will also go up though the 7970m seems to be running nice and cool. ;)

    Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S2 using tapatalk 2
     
    bigtonyman, Apr 27, 2012
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    There should enough juice left on a 240w power limit to overclock these cards nicely.

    The ram overclocking is a bit of a moot point because there is tons of bandwidth already. We need to pump the core clocks first.
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 27, 2012
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  43. wonderpookie

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    Any idea how much it would typically go up @full load if the 7970M is rated @100W?

    >>> Slick, have you OC'ed and seen? :D


    EDIT:- thanks SLick!
     
    wonderpookie, Apr 27, 2012
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  44. SlickDude80

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    I'm not sure wonderpookie, as there is currently zero app or driver support for the card

    I've tried many different ways to overclock this card but so far, i haven't been able to. WE will eventually get there though ;)
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 27, 2012
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    AMD's Vantage benchmark is 2k higher than ours because of all that extra bandwidth D= especially when it is PCI-Express 3.0 vs our 2.1? :(
    Doesn't affect 3DMark11 or gaming though, just Vantage.
     
    GeoCake, Apr 27, 2012
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    well, if we can figure out how to increase the clocks, then we can experiment lol

    Any word from Widezu? I've PM'ed svl7 and linked him to your vbios
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 27, 2012
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    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    Sorry guys, I'm no expert with a hex editor and obviously RBE doesn't recognise it. I'll keep digging but it doesn't look hopeful my end.

    Hopefully slv7 can shed some light on the matter.
     
    widezu69, Apr 27, 2012
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    The author of RBE has stated that the vbios in the 7900's are radically different and its not supported...which sucks. I really hope svl7 does see something...or we get overdrive in CCC so we can at least do a little overclocking.

    THese are the pains of early adoption
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 27, 2012
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    Update: Dan Ross from Eurocom has responded and taken all steps necessary to resolve my problem. After an initial hiccup getting in touch with the correct person, the communication between him and I has been excellent. :mad: now = :D
     
    DirtyTrickster, Apr 27, 2012
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    So... finally a VBIOS. :p
    The structure does look quite a bit differently... I identified the clock domains and the voltage table.

    Just to be sure, what are your 2d clocks, and what is the reported 2d voltage and 3d voltage?

    Attached is a version with the 3d clocks set to 900/1250MHz, but I can't guarantee that it'll work. It would work for the 6000m series, but as you already heard, it seems AMD did some changes to the VBIOS of the 7000 series.
    Flash at your own risk.


    Edit: Btw, did you guys already try the leaked 12.5 drivers?
     

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