D900F 680m Clocks not boosting

So i have a D900F I just upgraded to a 680m, it's much nicer a laptop now but i noticed my core clock is only 600mhz, the 680m stock is faster, I flashed the Prema bios and modded vbios and modded the inf but it's not working, whats wrong?

 

@KY_BULLET Do you remember what section it was that made the card run normally again? I forgot.

 

I remember that it wouldn't run right and you flashed a couple other vbios on it then it would clock higher. This is the vbios that was on my card.


I sold it but will do some digging around to make sure that this is the one that ran good on it.

 

It was also section related, I can't remember which section was the right one tho.

 

Yeah I can't either but I know you figured it out in just a couple minutes. It was running in the stock 970m range performance wise.

I Also remember you did a few changes within MSI afterburner.

 

I'll double check, I flashed that vbios and also no luck

Found a modded MSI vbios and flashed it, first odd thing

My HDMI port works with the MSI vbios

Now it boosts but it boosts to 915mhz!!! It's stable there but omg it overheats if I stress it hard and I once overloaded my Powersupply. I can't figure out how to make it boost less without afterburner. So thinking of flashing the stock MSI vbios it's based on and trying it. It seems to work very well at 745mhz, balanced load wattage and balanced temps(not really but not throttling)

Does anyone have the later heatsinks? I just slapped a 285 heatsink on which barely fits right but fits, but I need the 100w heatsink and CPU heatsink to fit it all.

I also should get a higher wattage adapter but that requires a new motherboard and I'm not that rich right now

 

@KY_BULLET You had the card at decent temps on almost 1ghz and 80s temp, maybe you got some inputs on this.

 

I could only get to 940mhz and 2400mhz memory running benchmarks but, no way I could run that for long periods of time without melting it. I used ICD TIM for the GPU.

I had the GTX 280m heatsink and had to run like you, around 740mhz to keep the heat under control and it was still a little on the warm side after long periods of BF1. Eurocom may be able to sell you the upgraded heatsink, I never looked into this but according to their youtube videos, they have/had one.

If you have the female plug on the back of your machine and having trouble finding a 300 plus watt power supply for it, you can contact Eurocom. They sell a converter plug that converts the PSU cord from female to male. Then you can find a Clevo or even an older Alienware 330 watt PSU on eBay with the female plug (which are easy to find) for cheap. These will work because I did it.

I messed up one of the pins on the converter (Long Story ) wire but still works. We might be able to work out a deal for both PSU and converter if you want.

I have to say this; if you do have the female plug on your mobo, the female plugs weren't really made to handle more than the 220 watt PSU's that came with our machines. I was either told this or read it from an older post on NBR. I ran it for weeks without problems though.

You shouldn't need it running normal clock speeds (If you have the 220 watt) but if you plan on running decent benchmark scores, you will need it.

Hope this helps

Charlie

EDIT...I never was able to change the voltage. It ran .9XXXv. I read that people have successfully ran them at 1.03v. It's been a while since I read into this so make sure you do your research beforehand. Messing with voltage will kill it quicker than anything else.

 

ok so here's the issue. the modded vbios is set to 915mhz by default and i can't downclock it without afterburner, trying to change it via vbios isn't working right. I'm gonna have to copy the tables possibly by hand

any vbios including the one you linked me won't clock higher than 600mhz.

The adapter you mention interests me since i have the older female adapter since this machine started with a 280m not a 285m. The real reason for supposedly changing the socket was production reasons, not load but thats what i heard.

 

Yeah I forgot to mention that. Mine would clock high too so I had to use MSI Afterburner every time to down clock it. Been a while but I think you can save the profile and then check it to run at start up.

If you want to change the voltage and clock tables, there is a Kepler vbios tuner out there but be careful man. I'm a wuss, Danishblunt scared me away from that lol!

 

Just made a vbios by hand with the tables instead of the bs way, testing now

very intrested in the adapter and converter, PM me maybe? remember I'm not rich, i dumped 450$ on this GPU a week ago and dumped money on my 2 D901C's to by 4 9800m GTX's with SLi cables, OEM heatsinks and also a X5690 for this laptop

verdict is in, i now have a vbios for the D900F with

HDMI WOKRING, they said it wasn't possible!
705mhz base clock
745mhz boost clock
135mhz idle clock
2250mhz mem clock

WOW is this thing FAST!!! it's amazing

 

Rep given...I will PM you later about the adapter and PSU.

I never was able to get my HDMI to work...HDCP reguations blah blah blah lol!

Charlie

 

I upped the voltage wth the vBios to get it more stable, remember? We didn't want to exceed a certain point tho since it went qiute steamy.

Afterburner didn't like to change the voltage tho for some reason, was only possible with the vBios.

 

Yeah I remember you did something in the vbios but wasn't for sure what you did.

 

I cannot change voltage via afterburner either, I think it has to do with the way the D900F interferes with the hardware add in cards.

I have not a single bios that worked. load tests look amazing, average load is 80c, sustained max load is 88c

 

Try and see if you can mod the heatsink a bit. I'd say anything below 85c is ok, if u're at 85 or over then try and find out how to lower temps by a little bit.

 

I have ONE heatsink left, i'd like to not go at it with the dremel, i already modded my other 900f heatsink for a different GPU

 

Well having a card run near 90c especially in that generation is asking for it to die soon tho. Your call.

 

The worries start with the fact I never see D900F heatsinks, if I damage it, then I have no GPU no matter what I do. I need to fix the temps but I need to figure out why they are high, ambient temps are 75f, under load it starts at 68c, then slowly creeps up, as if the fan does a horrible job. I'll take a look, I'm using MX-4. If I wasnt sinking the heat it would immediatly overheat, 90c is the thermal throttle and 105 is the thermal trip. I haven't tried it again but if I keep it at least below 90c it should be fine, I would prefer below 80c but it's not gonna happen so I'll settle for 85. So far only games like Overwatch stress the card hard enough for high temps like that but I haven't tested it much.

 

Hello, I purchased not long ago d900f (i7-980x, gtx480m).
Upgrade gtx480m to gtx680m (removed with p370em, vbios 80.04.33.00.24).
Modified the diver 391.35, the frequency: 135mhz idle clock, 510 mhz base clock, there was no boost clock, 1800 mhz mem clock.
FlameHaze please share your vbios?

 

It's the driver, you need to find the right sector.

 

Do you want to say that the matter is in the driver, and not in the BIOS?
I installed vbios 80.04.67.00.01, there frequency: 601 mhz base clock.

 

Yes that's exacly what I'm saying. The card needs to run in proper section otherwise it will not boost clock.

 

For me changing the vbios fixed my issues

 

If you have a vbios, please give me?

 

I avoid distributing modded vBIOS. Legally it's property of the company that wrote it

 

You changed it!?
On the source techpowerup.com distributed freely available factory vbios and mod vbios.
I also change the mod vbios, but hdmi not working.

 

Or you can use your old vBios and use the right section...

I don't know if @KY_BULLET remembers what section we used to fix his little boost issue. If he doesn't, well go through lots of sectors.

 

I believe you modded them and then using team player flashed them onto my GPU. I didn't get to see exactly what you did though. I know you did it in like 5 minutes and it was running strong!

I know Prema did have a modded 680m vbios at one point. But he's hard to get ahold of and I don't think he's distributing his mods to end users anymore? With it being an older architecture, he might come off with it, you never know.

 

I have prema's vbios, it didn't work. I'm using a modded msi bios that I modded. I'm reluctant to provide it as it is property of Nvidia/msi.

Regarding the HDMI I had it working at some point and it shows up. I'm not sure if it's working right now.