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    Help Please: upgrading W860CU with a Nvidia 470m

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by melloj, May 5, 2014.

  1. melloj

    melloj Newbie

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    Hello all,

    I decided recently to upgrade my stalwart W860cu with a newer graphics card. My old 280m has served me well but I thought a newer 470m would get some more mileage.

    I installed it last night using a kit from Eurocom. Diamond IC thermal paste.

    Everything seemed to go well until I ran the 3dmark test.

    With my 280 I had following resukts:

    Cloud - 5713
    Ice- 63342
    Fire wouldn't run

    With the 470 I am getting:

    Cloud- 2143
    Ice- 22881
    Fire- 180

    Temps are pretty low not really heading much over 45 Celsius. If anything it looks like the card is not running at full clock. I downloaded evga precision and it didn't record a spike in clock speed when running on scanner.

    Is there any idea out there what the issue can be? Maybe didn't insert the card fully?
     
    melloj, May 5, 2014
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  2. Prasad

    Prasad NBR Reviewer 1337 NBR Reviewer

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    Try updating the vBIOS maybe?
    I found this link. Proceed at your own risk! This is ofcourse if yours is a Clevo card.
     
    Prasad, May 5, 2014
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  3. Prostar Computer

    Prostar Computer Company Representative

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    This is a good place to start. Did you replace the old card with a Clevo card?
     
    Prostar Computer, May 6, 2014
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  4. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Your card is likely stuck in a lower pstate the 4 series liked to do this in machines it did not ship in. You either need to update the bios or vbios or edit the lower power states in the vbios to the higher frequency/voltage (I assume the psu is up to snuff?)
     
    Meaker@Sager, May 7, 2014
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