P150EM Upgrading from 675M to 680M!

============UPDATE===========

Time for some pictures .

GTX 680M




GTX675M X-clamp sucessfully removed, this is the hardest part.




GTX680M(Left) vs GTX675M(Right) in dimension comparism








SLi is possible




GTX 680M uses Samsung VRAM




GTX675M(Left) vs GTX680M(Right) Die area




Ready to install, used stock thermal pads + PK-1 thermal paste






VGA Empty!??




First boot into Windows 7 looks like the card was detected.




Installing 302.71




Sucessfully installed!




I'll upload the benchmarks a bit later, need a short break

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OK end of break time

Now, GTX 675M vs GTX 680M Benchmark!

=============GTX 675M=============

=======3DMark======

3DMark11: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P15xEMx score: P3660 3DMarks
3DMark Vantage: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P15xEMx score: P14877 3DMarks

=======Battlefield 3======

High 37fps



Utra 27fps



=====Metro 2033======

High 25fps



Very high 20fps



======The Witcher 2======

High spec 34fps



Ultra spec 15fps




=============GTX680M=============

=======3DMark======

3DMark11: Generic VGA video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P15xEMx score: P6074 3DMarks
3DMark Vantage: Generic VGA video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P15xEMx score: P21090 3DMarks

=======Battlefield 3======

High 58fps



Ultra 42fps




=====Metro 2033======

High 32fps



Very high 29fps




======The Witcher 2======

High spec 44fps



Ultra spec 20fps

 

soo lucky haha, im so jealous .__.

 

I didn't expect it to be on parts sale so soon lol. This time I'm going to avoid using ICD7 and use Prolimatech PK-1 plus Phobya 7W/mk 0.5mm thermal pads, don't want any scratches on the 1k+ card . !

 

I definitely want to know the differences between the 675M and the 680M since when I order in 2 weeks from now, I'm going to pick one of two of those gpus. Looking forward to your results. Also some comparisions will be greatly appreciated!!!

 

I'm going to benchmark the GTX 675M these days, will probably switch the GPU to GTX 680M after monday and do some benchmark, so Tuseday will probably be the time I upload the result.

 

Hackness,

Please take some high resolution photographs of the card PCB, heatsink, sli connector on the PCB. Will help us in this thread clevo grahpic card compatibility with M18X

Greatly appreciated
Monnie

 

If you can benchmark games fps too, that would be awesome!

 

very nice, looking forward to ur impressions and bench results, especially when it comes to OCing!

btw, where did u buy ur card? crazy early availability!

 

Can't wait..
Subscribed..

 

The PCB looks very similar to the clevo 675M by the way, so the heatsink should be the same as the clevo GTX 675M's, if anyone is able to compare it with the dell GTX 675M. Not sure about the Sli yet, will check and take photos once I get it. Also a side by side shot between the clevo 675M and clevo 680M too. By the way the upgrademonkey in that post is the guy I bought it from.

Will probably do BF3 1 hour in the same map using High and follow by Ultra setting with no FXAA or MSAA on each card, there'll be 4 screenshots. Hopefully it'll give you a rough idea.

Bought it from upgrademonkey, I used to buy parts from them. here is the link: Nvidia GeForce GTX 680M 4GB DDR5 for clevo eurocom etc upgrademonkey-in stock | eBay

 

huh so they really DO have it in stock, interesting but DAYUM, insane pricing

 

That price is ridiculous. Over 1000$, really?

 

Ah, pretty cool! Hope you can do me a favor and dump the vbios for me

 

Will do
10charss

 

Holy crap that's ridiculously priced lol

 

btw, R&J is listing the 680M for "only" 800 bucks

Laptop Video Cards :: nVidia GTX 680M 4GB Mobile Video Card - R&J Technology, Clevo Barebone Notebook kits, Laptop and desktop system builder

 

Please test some of the games notebookcheck tested to see if you get the same results. You notebook is ideal since you have the same CPU

 

675m is a 40nm fermi card based off 2010 technology and is know to be the most power hungry gpu. Notebookcheck have it that the 680m takes around 10w less then a 675m. A 680m is as powerful as a 675m on sli which is 2 675m's.

 

Yep I saw that, but I only have a week left before I go on holiday, wanted to try it out ASAP .

I'll try to test it, 3DMark11 and BF3 are going to be the 1st batch.

 

Perfect

 

must be nice to have a cool G lying around to upgrade so quickly to the 680m. (green with envy over here). Let us know how it is!

 

Great! Can't wait

 

That's $1200, the price of an entire laptop, for the GTX 680M. Ridiculousness.

Would overall cost less to sell the laptop, then buy a whole new one with the 680M.

 

^ This. Kevin's portrait says it all. But it's your money to spend. I was thinking about trying it in my NP8150. Wonder if it would work.

 

Hate it when they do something like this

"Unsatisfied, return within 7 days for a FULL refund"

and then you get popped with this

"Please make sure you know exactly what you are buying, we have to charge

15% restock fee, for non faulty return."

Anyways, really anxious to see how the install and testing goes!

 

Wow is it really $1200 for a stand alone GTX 680M? Unbelievable.

 

Jesus, that's even more than the GTX 690, that price scares the living crap out of me.

 

Standalone laptop gpu/cpu will always be expensive as they are manufactured for OEM's and have very short supply or it is not even intended for the consumer market.

 

Bah, it seems like they just sent the card out today, gonna have a 2-3 days delay before I can upgrade/benchmark/post result for the GTX 680M

 

More waiting huh? I think you still might be the first. Well if HTWingnut doesn`t get all sneaky and get it first though. He talked about having it "in transit" whatever that means

 

My ETA got pushed back to 16th of July

 

Can't wait for some user provided benchmarks.

 

That sucks. I reckon the waiting time is horrible

 

Yeah Dude, at first they told me around 2nd of July then they pop me with another 2 weeks, gosh darnit! Oh well it's been a month already, why not make it 2 for such an awesome laptop, all this waiting is only going to make receiving it that much sweeter haha!

 

I got the card, now benching the GTX 675M before swapping.

 

YEAHHHH!!!!

Smart move. Do a comparison between both. Perhaps with Battlefield 3 too. Looking forward to your results

 

At long last!

 

Eagerly waiting results.
+Rep awaits

 

What's a good way to remove the X-clamp on the GTX 675M? It's glued tight! This GTX 680M didn't come with one lol.

Edit: Oh my god I did it! Removed X-clamp without damaging the PCB, it was incredibly difficult. Now GTX 675M vs GTX 680M in dimension comparism photo shoot time!

 

Yessss! Can't wait for those photos benches should be awesome as well. Then we'll get someone on here to do a voltage mod and see what you can squeeze out of it

 

Almost there guys!

 

I'm sure you're dragging it out on purpose. Keeping everyone in suspense?

 

OK first problem came: 3DMark11 won't run without crashing, 3DMarkVantage is running now and is running fine it seems.

I got tons of photos coming but I need time to finish them all

OK Vantage test finished: Generic VGA video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P15xEMx score: P21090 3DMarks

Core clock 324 MHz <<--- I don't know what happened here, maybe throttling?

I'll do some more tests, also for some reason MSIafterburner isn't reading the clock.

 

No, its just, as always with this question, 3dmark not quite lining up reading the clocks with loading the core before the tests.

I doubt your score would be normal running at less than 50% of stock clocks.

 

Hopefully it's just the 3Dmark isn't reading correctly. After the 10th try I finally got the 3DMark11 running, will post result in 10min. I'm using GPU-Z to monitor the temp now.

3DMark11: Generic VGA video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P15xEMx score: P6074 3DMarks

Max temp 66C, pretty cool!

 

Your combined score is really low compared to the 3610 and 7970m, which is quite odd.

You got a 4823, where the 7970s get around a 5400 or so.

 

No, the combined test uses Direct Compute, and the GTX Kepler cards suck at this, they generally perform bad when it comes to GPGPU performance, Nvidia took left out this stuff and keeps it for the professional cards, so AMD simply destroys the Kepler GTX when it comes to this.

 

nice scores hackness!!!+rep

 

post some games bench plz,like BF3, Max Payne 3 and so on thanks dude.

 

First Post updated! Will post benchmarks later.

I don't have Max payne 3 so I'll post BF3, it's pretty amazing, I'll post in like an hour.