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    M17x R4 with 980M, 880M & 8970M

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by deadsmiley, Sep 12, 2016.

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    I just moved the 880M from my P170SM-A to the M17x R4. It runs consistent and cool. I think the cooling is better in the Alienware machine. I just plugged it in and did a quick and dirty INF mod. Runs almost exactly the same as it did in the Clevo (both running stock clocks)

    I am going to try the 8970M in the M17x R4 to see how that goes. Others have reported issues in the M17x R4. It worked fine in my M15x except that I had to control the fans with HWInfo64.
     
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    Well... I bought a Quadro M4000M (think 970M with a 256 bit memory bus and 4GB VRAM) for my M15x and I had to recover from a bad flash so I stuck in the M17x.

    After some @Prema McLovin' it's running pretty good!

    I had to use a 330w power supply as I have seen 148w on the graphics card alone. Prema really was able to to wake this thing up!

    +400 GPU
    +400 Memory
    +150mv on the GPU

    8789 in Firestrike, Graphics 10554
    http://www.3dmark.com/fs/10205916

    3DM11 did not complete at these settings. This is my best 3DMark 11 run so far.

    http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/11589467
    P10772 Graphics score 11891

    http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/11589511
    P11160 Graphics Score 12545
     
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