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    AMD 7970m available for buy

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

  1. SlickDude80

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    heavily overclocked it gets 4500 tops...this is a significant diff.

    Oh, and i have NOT overclocked the 7970m yet
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 22, 2012
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  2. Heihachi88

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    What drivers are u using right now?
     
    Heihachi88, Apr 22, 2012
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  3. Karamazovmm

    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    DO it! you know you want to!

    Btw could you do a vantage run?
     
    Karamazovmm, Apr 22, 2012
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  4. wild05kid05

    wild05kid05 Cook Free or Die

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    DriverVer=03/05/2012, 8.951.1.0000
    8.951.1-120305m-134662E-ATI
     
    wild05kid05, Apr 22, 2012
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  5. hanser

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    That means that u alredy get iit? where did you get iit and how much iit cost you dude??? please tell me XD!
     
    hanser, Apr 22, 2012
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  6. SlickDude80

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    Vantage run

    Stock clocks 850/1200

    [​IMG]
    [​IMG]
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 22, 2012
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  7. Karamazovmm

    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    Thanks! Kevin will be happy with it!
     
    Karamazovmm, Apr 22, 2012
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  8. lastshady

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    Just great!!!
    but why so low cpu points? 21k?
    your 2920xm should get a lot more since im getting 20500 with my 920xm@3,2

    Anyway thank you and the other guys you guys are the real deal!!
     
    lastshady, Apr 22, 2012
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  9. SlickDude80

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    ^^ we'll see tomorrow when i OC it a little. THese are stock numbers
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 22, 2012
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  10. lastshady

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    again thank you for staying up all-night!!
    you should take cold drink and enjoy doing this !! :)

    btw i think gpu score should get around 22-23k and cpu 25k without OC
     
    lastshady, Apr 22, 2012
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  11. long2905

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    based on what?
     
    long2905, Apr 22, 2012
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  12. SlickDude80

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    ^^^ ya, i'd llike to know too.
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 22, 2012
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  13. lastshady

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    based on scores of 6970 on vantage

    7870 and 6970 are pretty similiar in power
     
    lastshady, Apr 22, 2012
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  14. SlickDude80

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    Oh and if anyone was wondering, i posted this in the other forum...

    Temps are quite good all things considered.

    [​IMG]
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 22, 2012
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  15. lastshady

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    my bro's 6970 is getting 5600 gpu score in 3dmark 2011 and
    23500 in vantage gpu for example

    and that scores he gets with a i5 @5 ghz.

    if this relation is true then it should get around 22k in vantage gpu.
     
    lastshady, Apr 22, 2012
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  16. SlickDude80

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    you're refering to desktop cards?

    6970 has 1536 spus, the 7970m has 1280
    the 7870 is clocked at 1100mhz...my card is clocked at 850

    THose cards should be much higher

    i think i'm in the ballpark
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 22, 2012
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    lastshady, Apr 22, 2012
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    ^^^ i sure as hell hope so :D :D. We shall see tomorrow
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 22, 2012
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  19. lastshady

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    there it is:
    Gigabyte Radeon HD 7870 OC review

    look @ vantage of 7870@1ghz and calculate the loss of 150 mhz tommorow lol.
    That means oced 24k like?

    Good night man!!!


    NOTE: WATCH THAT LANGUAGE !
     
    lastshady, Apr 22, 2012
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  20. SlickDude80

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    Grazt, i have a feeling you'll be seeing similar numbers soon lol
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 22, 2012
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  21. hanser

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    where i can buy this CARD!!!
     
    hanser, Apr 22, 2012
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  22. smokingjam

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    whats temps like under loads, gaming etc.
    was it easy to fit? im hoping it will fit into clevo 170
     
    smokingjam, Apr 22, 2012
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  23. bigtonyman

    bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!

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    Nice job slick, :D
     
    bigtonyman, Apr 22, 2012
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    Good job SlickDude. You`re doing a great job for the community. +rep
    This GPU is a BEAST. Poor Nvidia don`t know what about to hit them, HARD. :D :D :D

    Vantage GPU score have increased 50% from 6990M. 3DMark11 GPU score have increased 84% from 6990M. So sick :D

    BTW, I have a request. Can you do a Unigine heaven benchmark for us with these settings? Unigine Heaven 2.1 - high, Tesselation (normal), DirectX11 1280x1024

    I want to compare more against 6990M and notebookcheck have those scores.
     
    Cloudfire, Apr 22, 2012
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  25. SlickDragon

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    Great Job as always Slick +Rep, you have brought hope to all of us that Mobile Gpu's will finally surpass the 560ti and the 570 (580 your next on the hitlist..) . All Hail The Mobile King 7970m, All Hail Slick The Deliverer! I shall now be buying my M17x R4 with the 7970m, and finally joining the Alien Side in our War against overhyped and mediocre Desktops.
     
    SlickDragon, Apr 22, 2012
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  26. HSN21

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    cAN'T WAIT for your updates :)

    And just for reference these are 3D Mark 2011 scores for desktop GPUs with high end quad cores

    http://www.guru3d.com/imageview.php?image=37129

    Slick 7970m at stock speeds (already faster than 570 Desktop)
    [​IMG]

    GTX 580 DESKTOP 3d mark = 6685
    Stock speed 7970m without optimized drivers yet = +6000 already
    With overclocking+better drivers it can pass/on par of GTX 580 DESKTOP

    CRAZY TALK ! 580 Desktop power in a laptop with single GPU

    m17x R3 with 7970m and quad core is already being sold for $1,699.00 from alienware

    7970M = POWERFUL, RUNS cool and cheap
    Knowing Nvidia history in the mobile market they wont achieve all of these together
    680m probably = 2x the price runs hot, half a year later and if performed better barely by 5-10% just so nvidia market it as "MOST POWERFUL GPU"
     
    HSN21, Apr 22, 2012
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  27. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    Very nice scores Slick. Very impressed with the numbers truly sensational. My 580m 20k Vantage score just got blown out of the water. The M17x overclock king should have a go at this :D Shame I have a 3D screen and it's not compatible.
     
    widezu69, Apr 22, 2012
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    Great scores. Congratulations! Did the 7970M come with a new heatsink or are you using the old 6990M HS? The P6125 score is using the Tess cheat, while the P5600 score is straight stock, right?
     
    The Revelator, Apr 22, 2012
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    i am interested in that too...
     
    Heihachi88, Apr 22, 2012
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    I'm still wondering where he picked this up. Excellent numbers and awesome to see got everything working
     
    Cereallll, Apr 22, 2012
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    Look at screenshot i did with Furmark (several posts back)... 68c in furmark burnin. The card is the exact same size and shape as the 6990m so it will fit

    THNX :D

    THNX Cloud! Sure, I'll run Unigine later today

    LOL...THNX bro

    Shoot, i never thought about it that way...I already have a desktop GTX 570 in my laptop...but a 580? dang!! :D hopefully, i can get some overclocking done today. Sapphire Trixx doesn't work...doesn't recognize the card lol. I might have to edit the driver. Hopefully it works!

    THnX bro :)

    Rev, the card is a beast! and you are very observant as usual :) Correct, 5600 straight stock

    The card is the exact same size and shape as the 6990m, i just reused the stock dell 6990m heatsink


    ;)
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 22, 2012
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  32. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    Any chance of a vbios? I'd love to take a look :)
     
    widezu69, Apr 22, 2012
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    Me too.
    10char
     
    svl7, Apr 22, 2012
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    I tried pulling it but GPUz isn't working too well with this card.

    What are you gonig to use, RBE?

    i can get you guys a peek if you show me how to get it off without using gpuz

    And btw...once you get the vbios, up the clock to 900 core for me :)
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 22, 2012
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  35. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    Have you tried using a bootable USB and atiflash?
     
    widezu69, Apr 22, 2012
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  36. SlickDude80

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    oh gawd No. That sounds like work lol...i'm still suffering from sleep depravation from lastnight
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 22, 2012
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  37. svl7

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    As widezu says, ATIflash per DOS bootable USB drive. Not much work at all, if you haven't a prepared USB stick laying around maybe 5 mins total.

    Looking at the 7000 desktop series it might not be possible to get the card working with a modified vbios... It seems AMD implemented some new features in the driver and vbios which makes bios modding pretty much impossible atm.
     
    svl7, Apr 22, 2012
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  38. flingin

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    Could owners of 7970m's post a photo of the card it self ?
    We'd love to see it's 28nm DIE
    Now i've been wondering as well, about R2 owners....

    RGB LED + 7970m (CF) - OMG

    Only question is from where to get it, Dell or eurocom/clevo ?

    About the vBios mods....sad thing... undervolting+OC'ing could do miracles with 7970
     
    flingin, Apr 22, 2012
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  39. Heihachi88

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    Dell wont selling them separately :( So i guess is eurocom/clevo only way to go... hope they would work without any issues.
     
    Heihachi88, Apr 22, 2012
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    Agreed RGB+7970m X-fire would be legendary.
     
    skaun, Apr 22, 2012
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    Slick ~ have you tried playing any games or anything with the new card? If so what kind of fps increase did you see?
     
    DirtyTrickster, Apr 22, 2012
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    flingin M17x R2 Mafia

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    WILL BE :)
     
    flingin, Apr 22, 2012
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  43. SlickDude80

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    haven't had time yet jwinsett...but i fully expect 60 fps in BF3 ultra
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 22, 2012
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  44. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    Clevo 7970m's would work better in the M17x R2 anyways judging by how the different 6990m's went.
     
    widezu69, Apr 22, 2012
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    That would be Sick Sick Subwoofer!!! :p

    So a straight swap out with the 6990M GPU right Slick?
    Just a quick thermal paste job and no need to move pads around on the HS?

    GPU-z PIC show anything?
    1280 Shaders?

    Which driver version did you get hacked? The Dell one or 12.3 or 12.4 so that you could install the GPU?

    I can't wait to see more testing. :eek:

    Cheers. :)
     
    reborn2003, Apr 22, 2012
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  46. SlickDude80

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    its a straight swap...use the 6990m heatsink. I had to move a few pieces of thermal pad but it was very minor. Ram is in the exact same place. THen repaste. That's it

    The hard part was installing the driver...seems even the latest betas are missing a vital component to make the 7970m's work...FULL Cred goes to wild05kid for spotting that

    GPUz isn't working very good with this card...only shows 850/1200 nothing else

    I'm currently trying to find a way to overclock the card. This is the problem when there is nothing out there that officially supports the card.
     
    SlickDude80, Apr 22, 2012
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    If you can copy the vbios I can take a look at it and change the clocks, but as mentioned, I'm not sure whether it's going to work.
     
    svl7, Apr 22, 2012
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  48. long2905

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    Can you try the AMD overdrive function built in in the driver? Can the regedit trick unlock it?
     
    long2905, Apr 22, 2012
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    Poor game developers. When we can max out BF3 with 60 fps on ultra with 7970m's and maybe Metro and Crysis 2 what is left for us to test then ;).
    Hopefully Metro: Last Light or Crysis 3 will be a GPU killer, it is kinda sad not to have something to strive for :).
     
    skaun, Apr 22, 2012
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    That would be great. I have my 6990m on eBay already. Can't wait for the new card!
     
    DirtyTrickster, Apr 22, 2012
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