MSI GT683DX(R)/MS-16F2 AMD RADEON HD 6990M Succeed!

Nah im still focusing on getting the correct score on vantage and i just did , so yeah, expect some oc this weekend!

 

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2720QM Processor,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16F2 score: P2417 3DMarks

For anyone interested that is what my system scores at 100% stock.

 

Nice score you got there

Do anyone know the design of the AMD sticker for graphic similar to the nVidia one, or is there even one like that? Im thinking of putting it on my pc so it looks...complete

 

This:



Or this:

 

My vantage score for comparison:

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2720QM Processor,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16F2 score: P12193 3DMarks

 

Here is mine for comparison.

 

@meaker thanks! I just ordered the amd sticker

@quadzilla: is your score run at stock or after oc? Of stock then wow @.@

Btw i did a fresh windows install again with my last score and still dead island and witcher 2 acted the same so i think maybe they have some settings conflict or something. Do you know how i can disable the AI thing everyone keep talking about? Im gonna test 820-1200 tomorrow and see if its stable.

One last thing to both meaker and quadzilla, what kind of ac adapter ar you guys using? Like 120w or 150w or 220 or even 300w? I am using mine with 180w, will i need more?

 

No that was overclocked of course . 845 core 1000 memory

Best stock runs are usually around 13,500-13,800.

240 watt adapter as that is the stock one for the R3.

 

Thanks! I think i will get a 240w just to be on the safe side

edit: scratch that, couldnt find any that have the same 5.5x2.5 tip to plug in my laptop, nor is there any kind of converter available. Also found out that the 15" from sagers with 6990M also use 180W adapter so yeah, moving on )

edit2: 3dmark score OC'd 820/1150
AMD Radeon HD 6970M / 6990M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2860QM Processor,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16F2 score: P16923 3DMarks
AMD Radeon HD 6970M / 6990M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2860QM Processor,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16F2 score: P4114 3DMarks

edit3:
@quadzilla: did you try overclock the XM chip?

 

Interesting that my CPU is only a couple of points behind yours (with a 4% OC) and then actually beats it in the physics test

 

@dragon Your RAM is running at 667mhz instead 800, Is that wanted ?

Good score fellows, here are mine :

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2720QM Processor,MEDION X681X score: P2567 3DMarks

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2720QM Processor,MEDION X681X score: P10757 3DMarks

 

hmm i think its fair since yours is an ES with 8MB cache, with a slight OC and yeah congrats

both CPU-Z and HWinfo64 show mine run at 798.3Mhz so I'm not too worried, will try to set RAM profile to XMP instead of Default in bios to see how it goes.
Nice score btw

edit: tried XMP and still the same on 3dmark, the score is roughly the same too.

 

My best CPU score is almost 26,000, I have the screen shot saved somewhere. The CPU i have can hit 30k as it came out of an M18x that was scoring it but i would need some additional cooling .

I can push my card alot harder but i held back on the RAM most of the time as you see i only went up 100mhz there.

 

Man, I leave the forums for a little while and people are already putting 6990ms into their MSIs.

God, my 5870 feels so tiny. Sad face.

 

Its never too late XD

Maybe I will try revise the first post in this thread into some sort of detailed guide upgrading GPU on a GT683/680. I will do it tomorrow though since its midnight now.

 

What better time to get off your and do some upgrading then? Or you could read up on people's 6990M and wait for the 7 series before jumping back in. Everyone has skipped a generation at some point, even me.

 

I did a comparison of the 5870 OC 800/1000 to a stock 6990 when i had the M15x to give people a real idea of what they should expect from the upgrade .

http://forum.notebookreview.com/7920524-post1131.html

 

Yeah running at 925/1175 (had to lower the mem a bit) it looks like the 6990M is about 30% faster (at stock ofc). Considering how much I paid for this card I am happy.

 

working hd 6990m in msi gx640 ????

 

Good luck trying to cool it.

 

Nice job Dragon290513 ! +rep

After some delay, I finally found a 570m heatsink off a gt780dx, should have a 580M in the 16f2 this weekend with pictures and all etc

 

good ! looking forward to seeing that!

 

Oh , hey guys. Ordered a 6990M (£295 from eBay) for my GX660R along with the paste, pads, new PSU, etc.

My first query is do I have to remove the 'back faceplate thingy' ? bear in mind, this is a GX660R and I really don't want to touch the card in that way..

Also I am glad I have the 5870M heatsink so things are a lot easier in a way and better suited for the 6990M, and the modifications I have to do to it are the same as the 6970M upgrade (From MXM-Upgrade, I hope anyway). Thankfully the Turbo fan will cool it down, in theory...

Anything else I need to worry about? Thanks guys

 

Since we're all throwing around benchmark numbers, almost broke 10k GPU Score for Vantage on my 560m GTX with a hefty overclock.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M video card benchmark result - Genuine Intel(R) CPU 0 @ 2.40GHz,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16F2 score: P11447 3DMarks

Edit: Got it. http://3dmark.com/3dmv/3597821?show_ads=true&page=/3dmv/3597821?key=hSrfNiXfQEJnGmtU8XwyGQ

Those are some impressive scores Dragon, I'm jealous.

 

Wow I knew te 560M was slightly more overclockable than my 460m

Your 2920xm ES is quite good for an ES !

 

It is, but my TDP is around ~65W at peak and temps ~97*C prolonged when my CPU is stressed that way. Not good for long-time use. In BF3 though, it'll never exceed 55W so I'm happy.

Those are about the fastest (stable Vantage) frequencies for my card. Time to torture test it with some BF3. . .

Perhaps if I could raise the voltage a couple notches I'd be able to go further, maybe hit 1 GHZ core.

Edit: Just played BF3 @ 950/1685/1900 for an hour, runs much smoother, no artifacting, warping, crashes, etc. Max temp 81*C, I need to bump that voltage up .

 

cant wait for the result, im sure it will be smoother than mine

it depends, you cannot know until you try and for now you will be the first to put a 6990M into GX660R (just like me ). Good luck!

Also you may need a 180W or higher PSU just to be safe.

You're too kind And your score is quite good TBH.

Im reading the 6990M thread in the Alienware and Sager forum to see the best clocks on lowest voltage to lower temperature some more. Btw, BF3 is a thing of beauty on this machine

 

How high your CPU is getting after playing BF3 ? Mine has crazy temps: over 85 up to 89 on the 4 cores which I think is incredible high while it sits at 48degrees on idle...my GPU is getting to 82.

 

91*C-94*C on four cores. Hot. Only other games that does this: SC2. GPU overclocked maxes at like 83 or 84*C.

 

wow yep only BF3 is doing that to me...that's a hell lot of heat...

 

Hi Dragon290513,

so sorry i havent update this thread been too busy.

But all i can say is the fitment was perfect using the 570m heatsink max temps recorded were 82c running 3d vantage. But as i was using a dell 580m card it throttled through the whole vantage test, so if anyone is going to update to a 580m do it BUT dont use a DELL 580M as the vbios in that throttles, any other manufacture should be ok.

I'll post pic's tonight of the heatsink and all, also i used a msi 570m in that test this worked perfect no throttle/temps were very good 64c max on load.

570m recorded 3dvantage score of 9500
580m recorded 3dvantage score of 10900 with throttle pretty much the whole test.

Now i dont know if its a power thing or the dell vbios limiting this 580m.
i was using the 180w msi power supply also the dell 580m has a temp throttle at 80 as well.

But just be looking at the temps between the 2 it would seem the 580m sucks good power compared to 570m

 

no worries man. Too bad the dell version got that throttling issue. Are they working on a fix or something?

Anyway thanks for your valuable information . If only we can exterminate the cause for the throttling

Have you tried touching the PSU while under load? I'm curious as to how hot it was.

 

Ok please find pictures for the 570m and 580m which fits perfect as you can see the cards are almost identical bar the 2 missing chips on the 570m

pic 1 is the 570m
pic 2 is the 580m
pic 3 is both compared
pic 4 is the heatsink (as you can see its missing the 2 chips thermal pad)
pic 5 is the heatsink with the new thermal placed to accommodate the 580m

 

the psu under load for the 580m was not hot at all, nor was it hot for the 570m

pic 1 and 2 are the 570m as you can see no sweat temps great etc

pic 3 and 4 are 580m results which are terrible due to throttling so please if anyone decides to put a 580m USE ANOTHER BRAND NOT DELL. Temps are up there as well, these beats run VERY hot.
I only had a dell to test from my m18x so too me it wasnt worth spending money to buy another brand too test.

the purpose for this whole test was just too see if it. 580m fits and if the bios picks it up and if windows ran perfect, the answer is yes all fits perfect the rest is fine tunning i suppose.

I didnt want to flash the 580m with any other vbios from another vendor just incase i damaged the card which is expensive to replace

thanks i hope this helps future users upgrading

 

There doesn't appear to be a heck of a lot of difference between the two. I'm wondering how an oc'd 570 would stack up to the 580.

 

So you can see an overclocked 570m this is my old / recently sold 570m out of my gt780dx 3d mark vantage score 15988 (I am now aslo doing the 6990m change in the hope to increase these scores some what more )

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2820QM Processor,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-1761 score: P15988 3DMarks

 

I'll be interested to see what my power consumption is with it hooked up.

 

I have left it at the clocks I had it running at she is also set @.9v aswell, all mods done via svet's tool. Have you got a 180w PSU?

 

Yeah I do.

 

well we currently have a record with a single GTX 580M at 20xxx points 3Dmark Vantage.

 

James did you try asynchronous clocking in the end?

Also have you run 3dmark11?

 

That's pretty impressive for a single 580m what laptop was that in (dell/alienware)? would be interested to see the 3d mark screen for that.

 

No didn't play with the asynchronous clocking you could prob get more out of it I was happy with how it was as it was good for temps and good stability.

I did run 3dmark 11 but as my copy was not a registered version it would not let me upload but it is was from memory it was just over 3800, I am sure with a better CPU and some fine tuning to the GPU it could hit 4K+ and exceed 16k in 3d mark vantage. The downside to the MSI and sandybridge is the lack of ability to overclock CPU.



http://forum.notebookreview.com/msi/622755-570m-overclock-2.html#post8079976

 

Well you can overclock the CPU lol, just not much (about 4.4%)

Here is that screenshot:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/att...ware-m17x-benchmark-thread-part-4-capture.jpg

 

Yeah, he had it running at 4.4Ghz on all 4 cores, mad crazy sh!t!

The 580M is also stupidly overclockable, defo best card for it. The 6990M reaches 16K max with a good overclock.

Me and Dragon get about 17k for our setups.

 

Hmm I am/was hoping to get 17k+

 

mine is a dell card. Dont hope to push over 800/1200 though.

 

Where did you get your 6990M from? @ James

 

AMD cards are generally stronger in 3dmark 11.

 

hi dragon, sorry if this is out of topic
do u still have the gtx 570m that u pulled off?
i am using msi gt683r and it's very annoying about the difference between gtx 560m and 570m.