Alienware 17 2013 with eurocom 1070 90w

A while ago I tried a 1070 with my trusted Alien, but unfortunately the card was broken.
Now I'm ready for a second try with a Eurocom version.
The laptop was prepared the first time, bios/heatpipes/adapter/windows setup and all that stuff.
But...
I heard the Eurocoms are very fragile. And tend to overheat/blow up if not taken care of.
And read here that the 1070 Eurocoms have the wrong bios, which are made for 120w or 150w.
Where can I find a bios with a 90w version for a Eurocom? And maybe other tips for this 1070?
Many thanks!

 

Send it back and get literally anything else

 

Basically above. You can find MSI's for extremely cheap, or Zotacs or the off-brand Dell's for around the $500 mark. Unless you got it for significantly less, I would send it back asap.

 

The 90W vBIOS will only help for a while, the card will still fail after a few months. Its just a poorly designed and built card with an inadequate VRM. It is originally manufactured by a Chinese company called GeCube. They apparently fixed the issues of that 1070 with a new one which has a stronger VRM and 150W TDP, but I wouldn't risk getting one of those until someone on here has properly stress tested it. I may get hold of one and properly torture it to see if its any good, but for now the MSI 1070 is the strongest and most reliable. They can take a lot of power without complaining. If you want a cheap alternative, try an MSI 1060 and TDP mod it.

 

Ahh ok, I think it's difficult for me to send it back. It was second hand purchase.
Most other brands are here difficult to come by, or I have to import it with a heavy tax on it.
So I think I give it a go
After a google fu, I saw the vrm is the part which regulates voltage and such. How can I protect the VRM more? Does it overheat or, when put on more gpu load, it overloads?
Can I like use throttlestop to regulate the voltage myself?
And how can I found out if the bios is really the 90w or the wrong 120/150w? Where could I find the 90W bios?
Sorry for so many questions, but many thanks for the help!

 

If the vrms are of poor quality then it's a matter of dirty power being delivered and not so much just how much.

 

Ok, today got the time to work on the laptop. And it works first time booting!
I allready had it prepared earlier in the year, bios, new heatpipes, etc.
So how can I check if it really has the 90w limit? I got several diagnostic tools, but they don't show a watt limit from the videocard. Which tool can do this?
I know I can flashbios it to go higher, but I want to protect this card from going over the limit and keep it alive.
I'll let you know how the card will run in the long term, I'm surprised I can give this laptop such a boost

 

You could stress test the GPU and use GPUz or hwinfo to check the total wattage pull of it.

 

so everything good with the eurocom card?

 

It still works
Videogames work very nice. It has an upgraded heatpipe, the temperature stay around 55 c while gaming. So no chance of overheating I think.
I'm not sure yet about the voltage. HwInfo said for example it used like 69 watt as the highest usage with an hour of gaming. That is way below 90 watt. I hope it won't blow up because of 'dirty' power.
Is there a way to 100% test if I have the 90w bios?
And with an Unigine Heaven test, it scored like 3600.
The performance is really nice, but I don't think the 3600 score is correct, because when comparing other scores from desktop 1070 gtx, they get around 2600 - 3400. And the Eurocom is supposed to be a crippled 1070.
Either way, I'm happy It outperforms the 780m by a lot.

 

If you dump a copy of your vbios with gpu-z you should be able to open it with Mobile Pascal TDP Tweaker and see the max TDP limit.

Javers