Assembling error?

I have the 580M / 3d combo and also encoutered slow downs in certain games. GPU temperature was far away from meltdown so I decided to have a look on the card itself.

When I took out the card I noticed 4 GDDR5 RAM´s on the back are not cooled. Furthermore the back plate seems not to be the correct one, it doesnt fit mechanical. The back plate doesnt rest on the designated area, instead it rests on the capacitors and apply pressure to these... this can not be correct. Are the 4 uncooled RAM`s maybe the reason for the slowdowns of the 580M? I didnt take pictures, sorry. Does yours 580M comes with a different back plate or are the 4 RAM`s cooled?

 

Running 3d reduces fps usually by half. So if your playing games like Crysis 2 w/ dx11 and 3d, you will lose alot of fps.

 

activating 3D has nothing to do with slow downs, even L4D2 stutters... I am talking about a mechanical error, which maybe causes the heavy slow downs due overheating of the RAM on M17X with 580M.

I really wonder, no one mentioned this before or is just my notebook affected?

 

Dell has a record of shipping with the wrong parts....

If the parts are wrong, call dell and ask for replacements on the parts in question. In this case, the backplate, ram sticks(maybe) and probably a motherboard. Or you might have one of the dysfunctional 580m's. People seem to be having 580/6990's w/ many errors lately.

O hey btw, what bios are you using? And have you done the blind flash method to remove the throttling? Because default dell bios "WILL" throttle your gpu/cpu.

Throttling - When a piece of hardware downclocks itself to lower temperature due to manufacturers attempt to keep the consumer from overheating and requiring replacements.

Unfortunately, the 580m's have super low threshold without the blind flash method. Let me know as much as you can, and i'll try to help.