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    Clevo 7970m in asus G73JH?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by cdoublejj, Dec 31, 2014.

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    Clevo 7970m in asus G73JH? it feels like it's been a year since i i was in this section. I wanted to be sure i remember right but, isn't the clevo 7970m compatible with the G73JH?
     
    cdoublejj, Dec 31, 2014
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    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    I'm not too sure myself but I thought people were using Dell ones??
     
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    It has to be the revision that supports the hm vbios.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Dec 31, 2014
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    how would i find that out?
     
    cdoublejj, Jan 1, 2015
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    is it possible to flash them in the G73JH?
     
    cdoublejj, Jan 1, 2015
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    I know someone has used a Dell vBIOS 7970M for this mod.. if you want mine, I'm happy to sell.. PM me..
     
    TomJGX, Jan 2, 2015
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    For the clevo it has to be the older version with extra capacitors on which i believe is the 2.0 PCB where as the newer 1.1 (IIRC) does not work.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jan 2, 2015
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    any chance someone could shed some light on the models we can use?? I have been looking on ebay and there are a few. 09XVK3, 747M2.. I am unsure which will be best as the descriptions are pretty vague as to exactly which card these are.
     
    mrasstits, Jan 4, 2015
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    For the clevo cards look for ones with the additional hand soldered capacitors between the inductors, those are the first batch that should work.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jan 4, 2015
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    triturbo Long live 16:10 and MXM-B

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    I have v1.1 and it has those bigger caps soldered. Anyone knows if it would be compatible or not. Additional info - only v1.2 works on the HM.
     
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    Can you post pictures? That would be interesting.
     
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    triturbo Long live 16:10 and MXM-B

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    Here you are

    IMG_1119.JPG IMG_1122.JPG IMG_1124.JPG IMG_1126.JPG IMG_1127.JPG
     
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    Seems like a rare breed so it's hard to say if it would or not.
     
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    hhhhmmm interesting. Triturbo always has the rare stuff.
     
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    I just create the rare stuff for myself (like a fully populated 980M MXM power card).
     
    Meaker@Sager, May 9, 2015
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    [​IMG]
     
    cdoublejj, May 10, 2015
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    [​IMG]

    ;)
     
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    triturbo Long live 16:10 and MXM-B

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    Gotta love custom stuff :D Always nice to see something tinkered with :vbthumbsup:
     
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    did you add more capacitors? the solder job is good i can't tell what was added.
     
    cdoublejj, May 12, 2015
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    I had the missing top 3 MOSFET pads populated, that missing capacitor on the left could also be added to help the extra interference placed on the memory bus. I have moved on now but someone else could give it a shot :)
     
    Meaker@Sager, May 13, 2015
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