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    Firepro M6100 in P377SM-A?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Mastermind5200, Jul 27, 2018.

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    Yep. You heard right. The AMD Firepro M6100 works in the P377SM-A. Best part?The price, automatic fan control and no modded drivers to be heard of.
    My screen is clocked at 120HZ
    I'll edit this post with benchmarks soon

    Post testing conclusions: This is a cheap little backup card for people with 675M's and 765M's. Also a few bits of knowledge worth mentioning, I do have a 120HZ screen but it seems to be acting up and not working correctly in Windows, but in the BIOS it seems to be fine. As well, XDMA crossfire (bridgeless CFX) works as well I ran a firestrike run an got 6200 total, 9K physics and 8K graphics. I also get 60-90fps+ in GTA V at high, and in Shadow of the Tomb Raider I got 40-60+ at a mix of medium to high
     
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    going to try ATI Flash to unlock clocks
     
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    Nice!
    Are talking about the your old panel or the new one?
    Is it read as a 120hz 1080p panel by ATI Drivers?



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    Old one. I used my SSD from my desktop with accidentally modified INF's so that is why. It had HD 7770 drivers installed, which seem to work fine and recognize it well
     
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    Interesting............ I may have been wrong and that I do in fact have the 120HZ panel installed....
    In AMD Control Center, it shows my connection as eDP
    HWInfo64/Windows Device manager/ and Aida64 read it is a LGD02C5
     
    Mastermind5200, Aug 3, 2018
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    Unscrew it and tell me the number on the sticker on the backing of the LCD.
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    michealscott, Aug 4, 2018
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    Because some panels report a generic model number.

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    I dont really have the time or patience to do that, but I can confirm the panel is stable at 120HZ, and the AMD control panel states its an eDP connection.
     
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    XDMA Crossfire works!!!!! This is scoring near a 970M in firestrike!!!!! In GTA V, I get 90fps+ with high settings
     
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    What P/N does your GPU have, can you say? Is it K5WCN or MG0X9? What BIOS version?
    Thank you.
     
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    No clue
     
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    Interesting that this card is working with a 120hz panel more so in crossfire with 970m performance. Going to be giving a pair with the CF connector a try in the M17x R2 since the automatic fan control is working with a regular card without the connector so fingers crossed that it works well.
     
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