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    Can you flash a RB 2018 vbios for the P955ER

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by ahmad hendeh, Jun 16, 2018.

  1. ahmad hendeh

    ahmad hendeh Notebook Evangelist

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    @Prema , @XMG

    The title. Both laptops have the 1070MQ.

    The razer blade 2018
    RAZER OC X.jpg

    RAZER OC 1.jpg


    P950

    SAGER OC.jpg
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    And we know for a fact that the cooling can handle it

    Screenshot_20180617-014942_Samsung Internet.jpg

    If a Vega 56 can flash a vega 64 LC vbios shouldn't a 1070MQ be able to flash another 1070MQ vbios. Assume that we buy a 230w PSU like the one comes with the razer.

    Note: the sager is performing as intended for a max-crippled 1070 laptop. The razer is the one punching above it's weight
     
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    No you can't.
     
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    Do you happen to have a gpu z screenshot for the p955er ?
     
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    No sadly I don't, but I can tell you that you basicially can forget crossflashing vBios versions.
     
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    They share slightly different device ID. If I can overwrite that I am might be able to do something about this.

    Shouldn't NVflash work ? Damn you Nividia .
     
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    No, there are far more limitations than you'd think. Simply editing a device ID would do absolutely nothing. When trying to flash another firmware you not only risk bricking the card, but also breaking it. NVIDIA made sure you have a hard time fixing their mess. Also there is a special thing going on with newer revisions of pascal and 8th gen processors, which causes modding the TDP etc. to be impossible, not even with a hardware programmer. Read more abnout this in the Pascal TDP thread here on nbr.
     
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    It funny how in AMD you can flash an 8GB GPU vbios and get 8GB on your 4 GPU chips.

    Their is a bsolutely no way nvidia straight up banned Vbios flashing. I recon there must be a way.

    Whether flashing would brick the card or not. Even If I succeeded clevo cancer EC will throttle me

    Screenshot_20180617-151129_Chrome.jpg

    @Papusan
    36FPS for a 1070 at ultra(which is equal to a 1060MQ). Never though I would see this day

    How XMG achieved this glorious results ?

    920mhz core
    1500mhz memory
    2200mhz CPU
     
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    I'm being serious. NVIDIA is doing an incredibly good job at stopping us from fixing their garbage. @Mr. Fox
     
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    Their is a good reason for that. In maxwell an OC'ED 970 was faster than a 980 which prompted people to just buy a 970 and oc. Now nvidia is making sure that no card can be OC'ed to surpass the next tier. So every penny you save you pay in performance
     
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    AMD detect ram on boot where as Nvidia chips are pre-programmed hence why the AMD cards did not care about ram amount.
     
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