X7200 with SLI GTX 680m - how it works, Impressions, Benches

Very nice, please let us know how much it is an improvement over your 301.xx driver!

 

First of all, the Mod seems to work!
"Seems to work" because at one reboot, my screen stayed black. But after that, all boots worked well.
Now the card with a modded inf is recognized as "680m" as it should be! No more "GTX 580m" trick .
Run 3DMark11 - result nearly the same as before, but that was good before, too.
Run 3DMark Vantage, GPU score rises from 32000 to 34000 points... if I had to better CPU (still looking for a six core after my 970 died ) the score would be a lot better, since I regonized overclocking the 950 to nearly 4 GHZ will rise the score (GPU, not only physics), too!
Will do a lot more testing ...

 

Ok, two quick Benches... with new driver 310.70 / SLI Hack Mod by anatolymik.

First with stock clocks and vBios 80.04.33.00.24.
Second with OC 900/ 2200. I used FN+1 to max out fans with OC, but I think it wouldn´t have been necessary .

3DMark11 (P) - stock

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3DMark Vantage (P) - stock

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3DMark11 (P) - OC

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3DMark Vantage (P) - OC

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By the time I´ve got a new CPU with 6 cores, I will do a lot more Benches and put them on the first page along with the updated driver info.
Obviously the I7 950 is the bottleneck now.

 

Yeah I think so too, the CPU is the culprit.

Still, 12.5k GPU score is awesome And the x7200 sure is a cooling monster! My single 680m reached 67C at its 1006 core run

But as comparison, my 980 stock only gets 7000 points in 3dmark11 too.

 

Are you sure? My 970 did over 7900 - without overclocking - look at the first post/ first site of this thread and the first Bench 3DMark11.

I can now play Far Cry 3 with SLI and everything maxed out (SLI wasn´t supported with that old driver...) without any problems so far.
Dirt 3 and Showdown gave some good improvements in FPS, too.
So did Unigine Heaven 3.0.
Some games didn´t improve, mostly the older ones .

 

Did some more overclocking - look at the GPU scores...
With SLI I can´t go higher than 930 in 3DMark11 and 922 in 3DMark Vantage, the memory clocks can go much higher...
Temps stayed below 80° .
Now with a six core CPU the overall scores would be much higher, too...

3DMark11 (P) - OC

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3DMark Vantage (P) - OC

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Looking pretty good.

 

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Hi @ all,

as a totally newbie with need of help and advise I hope that somebody of you might help me out with my problem!? I also field a Clevo X7200, but "only" with 2 x GTX 675m with SLI disabled. Same problem you guys were facing with the GTX 680m's.

So my question is: Would the "manual" Tirenz provided us on page 1 also work for the GTX 675m?
If yes, do I have to go ahead exactly as Tirenz described it [Hyper SLI + SLI hack enabling (310.70)]? Would the same modded drivers + .inf's also work for the GTX 675m's?
If not, what can I do to get the GTX 675m's SLI enabled?

Your help is highly appreciated as I am not familiar in modding drivers + .inf's....





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Clevo X7200 // 2 x GTX 675m // i7 980X // 12GB RAM 1600Mhz // Intel 330 180GB SSD + 2 x Seagate Momentus XT 500GB (RAID 0+1) // Win 7 Enterprise - Workstation

Clevo P150HM // GTX 680m // i7 2860QM // 16GB RAM 1600 Mhz // OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB // Win 7 HP - Gaming

Dell XPS 17 (L701X) // i7 740QM // GT445m OC -> GT 635m; Core: 740MHz, Shader:1480MHz, MEM: 1250MHz // 8GB RAM 1333Mhz // Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB - internal Water cooling

 

Just try the new modded driver.
I did uninstall Hyper Drive before installing the new driver, and that different SLI Hack was the only thing I needed.
It´s really easy.
Just uninstall any other driver first. Load 310.10, install, reboot. Install the mod. Reboot. Then you can enable SLI. It´s as easy as that.
I think at first I messed something up that I had to go with Hyper SLI.

 

What about flashing GTX580M bioses onto the cards since they are identical pretty much.

 

Could work.
Since I only had GTX 485m, I didn´t read/ care much about it, but I guess you can do that...

 

Just make sure they are the right vbios, might be worth contacting your reseller to see if they have one.

 

As I did never flashing anything, I would prefer installing the new modded driver Tirenz mentioned. But thanks anyway Meaker! I keep it in mind. :thumbsup:

@Tirenz: Do you really mean 310.10? I supposed the 310.70 should have been the latest one!? You mean the new mod from anatolymik? That would be 310.70, right?
Never say that something is easy. If you don't know how to handle it then you have pretty much "fun" till you discover how it really works. After that it is easy!

Another thing I just want to mention: As you try to kick the maximum out of your machines, what about internal water cooling instead of standard cooling with fans? I mean OC comes by with high temperatures and power consumption. So if you are interested in learning more about that topic, please follow this link:

http://we-mod-it.com/board1-modding/board13-tageb%C3%BCcher-casemods-casecons/1464-aquabook-dell-xps-17-notebook-wak%C3%BC-intern/index5.html

Imagine the possibilities OC with reduced heat build-up or simple more OC with the same amount of heat build-up! I am mentioning that because the guy who did that had come to an agreement with Dell/Alienware. He will get the new M18x R3 for free, and if he's able to implement a functional water cooling system (internally) for that then full scale production might be at hand! And why not also for Clevo and other brands?

If you are interested, I will keep you informed about the outcome...

Thanky you again for helping me out in that issue!






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Clevo X7200 // 2 x GTX 675m // i7 980X // 12GB RAM 1600Mhz // Intel 330 180GB SSD + 2 x Seagate Momentus XT 500GB (RAID 0+1) // Win 7 Enterprise - Workstation

Clevo P150HM // GTX 680m // i7 2860QM // 16GB RAM 1600 Mhz // OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB // Win 7 HP - Gaming

Dell XPS 17 (L701X) // i7 740QM // GT445m OC -> GT 635m; Core: 740MHz, Shader:1480MHz, MEM: 1250MHz // 8GB RAM 1333Mhz // Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB - internal Water cooling

 

Hi Tirenz,

unfortunately it seems not so easy as it might should. I did as you said: Deleting all drivers, installing the 310.70 driver, rebooting and tried to install the mod from anatolymik. What I got was the following error message:



Hm, any ideas? Did I miss something?

Thank you again for your help!





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Clevo X7200 // 2 x GTX 675m // i7 980X // 12GB RAM 1600Mhz // Intel 330 180GB SSD + 2 x Seagate Momentus XT 500GB (RAID 0+1) // Win 7 Enterprise - Workstation

Clevo P150HM // GTX 680m // i7 2860QM // 16GB RAM 1600 Mhz // OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB // Win 7 HP - Gaming

Dell XPS 17 (L701X) // i7 740QM // GT445m OC -> GT 635m; Core: 740MHz, Shader:1480MHz, MEM: 1250MHz // 8GB RAM 1333Mhz // Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB - internal Water cooling

 

Yes, 310.70, of course!

It seems you don´t run as admin or you enabled UAC. You have to run the mod as admin and disable UAC, then it will run easy .

Thanks for the link and the info! Will look at that a little bit later, right now I am at work .

 

Finally it DID work!!! And yes, it was simple as well. But I never ever would have found the solution without your help! In this sense: Thank you so much!!!





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Clevo X7200 // GTX 675m SLI // i7 980X // 12GB RAM 1600Mhz // Intel 330 180GB SSD + 2 x Seagate Momentus XT 500GB (RAID 0+1) // Win 7 Enterprise - Workstation

Clevo P150HM // GTX 680m // i7 2860QM // 16GB RAM 1600 Mhz // OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB // Win 7 HP - Gaming

Dell XPS 17 (L701X) // i7 740QM // GT445m OC -> GT 635m; Core: 740MHz, Shader:1480MHz, MEM: 1250MHz // 8GB RAM 1333Mhz // Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB - internal Water cooling

 

Glad it works!
Don´t forget to post some Benchmarks for us!

 

Out of curiosity why did you go for the 675Ms instead of a single 680 or a 7970?

 

This is simply answered: because I had the possibility to get them really cheap! For 1/4 of a single GTX 680m. And further on I was curious to find out, if a GTX 675m in SLI Modus could outperform a single GTX 680m, which it does, theoretically on benchmarks.

@Tirenz: I will post some benchs asap with stock settings and MSI Afterburner, but I am afraid that there will be no flashed vbios for the GTX 675m; at least I didn't find any.





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Clevo X7200 // GTX 675m SLI // i7 980X // 12GB RAM 1600Mhz // Intel 330 180GB SSD + 2 x Seagate Momentus XT 500GB (RAID 0+1) // Win 7 Enterprise - Workstation

Clevo P150HM // GTX 680m // i7 2860QM // 16GB RAM 1600 Mhz // OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB // Win 7 HP - Gaming

Dell XPS 17 (L701X) // i7 740QM // GT445m OC -> GT 635m; Core: 740MHz, Shader:1480MHz, MEM: 1250MHz // 8GB RAM 1333Mhz // Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB - internal Water cooling

 

I was just curious, a lot of hardware starts to make sense if the price is low enough You can always upgrade later too.

 

Hmpf, as I am not sure which benches might be useful or not, I will start with some comparisons between my P150HM and X7200 to show up the performance (between the GTX 680m and GTX 675m SLI) at stock settings.

GPU-Z:


3DMark 11: at stock settings


Which additional benchmark settings would you recommend? 3dMark 06, 3DMark Vantage? Or aren't they already out-dated?

I would like to post some overclocked results as well, but as I already stated: I never did this before!
What would you recommend: OC by tools like MSI Afterburner, etc. or flashing the vbioses? The former seems to be "less risky" albeit the latter seems to be more efficient!?

 

Sorry, but a 680M will beat out sli 580m in more than half of anything. Just check the review over at techinferno. And that was "when" the 680m had throttling.
I dont see many 580m's coming close to this in sli. And that would go for 675m's as well. Since they are just re bandaged 580m's. (personal opinion only)




nVidia GTX 680M Performance Review

You would be far better off getting just 1 680m and waiting, then get another later if need be...

 

Whats your OC on the 980X to get over 9000 physics score?

 

Hm, I do not quite agree. As you can see the benchmarks from the GTX 675m SLI, which I have posted are slightly above the GTX 680m. I also tried several Games like Crysis 2 and Metro 2033 and found out that in SLI-Mode the GTX 675m is 5-7 fps above the GTX 680m with equal settings. Gaming experience was more "fluid". Pity though that I wasn't able to capture some screenshots and/or some short sequences to show the difference in fps, but every time I uploaded the screenshot/videos the fps from fraps were showing 1 fps (Screenshot) or 60 fps (video).

But anyway: both configurations are amazing and I am pleased with both of them!

To be honest? I didn't overclock anything. Attached you will find the current settings:

 

Ummm, ok. Carry on.

 

Weird. Can you give me the 3dmark11 link? Just curious about the 3dmark11 reported CPU mhz. Since when I run it on default clocks, I get 7k points, if I even OC the cpu slightly to 3,5 Ghz (3,8ghz turbo) it jumps to 7,5k cpu core. According to various benchmarks ~7k is normal for the i7 980. So I would like to see what frequenzy it reports for your test

 

Now I´ve got a i7 970 again... finally

It´s strange but it seems I did a better pasting job or I just have luck with this "special" CPU, but it stays much cooler than my first 970 and my last 950. On stock clocks it never goes over 73°... even with Prime 95. All CPU´s I had before in the X7200 went over 81° fast and reached up to 91° with Prime 95 for a longer period.
So it has a good overclocking potential, and so I did...

Now here are some quick results with both the GTX 680m´s overclocked and the i7-970 up to 3.9 GHz...

3DMark11 (P) - OC

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3DMark Vantage (P) - OC

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Will actually do a lot more Benches, stock and overclocked, and update the first site with the new Benches soon.

 

Good news
But your images are down it seems, can't see them!

 

Yes, last night they worked, but it seems now the server is down at this moment... hope they will fix it soon...

 

No problem. Here we go:

Generic VGA video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-980X Processor,CLEVO CO. X7200 score: P6462 3DMarks

Please let me know, if you find something "unusual" in my settings!?

 

It's almost keeping up with a 3.9ghz Ivy bridge in the first physics test, shows how beastly the 980X was at launch.

 

Now they´re up again .

 

Wow, it's unusual in a very positive way!

Your 980 pulls 7 FPS more than mine on same clocks in the Physics Test.
29 vs 22

Not bad

 

Do you have a benchmark link sirana, maybe yours needs a look at

 

Please check out post 91 of this thread!
For example Tirenz gets 8,6k Physics score @3.9Ghz

 

Links, not pictures, I am not comparing your scores by eye and you can upload as many as you want for free with 3dmark 11.

 

Okay, I will post direct links later today, I am on a cell phone right now.

Btw you could see the links in the pictures in the address bar

 

I am trying to get my hands on the Vbios file Clevo 680m - 80.04.67.00.01 'OCedition' revised_01.zip or the 80.04.33.00 and i cant for the life of me find a link that does not lead to that forum post that i cant download from because you need to post 5 times to get download privileges. Just go tmy NP9370 yesterday (clevo 370EM) with a 680M 4gb and just want to get this correct vbios installed without having to post 5 times on a forum. any help would be great!

 

Ok... i caved and donated 5$ and got the damn thing, So now i have the 80.04.33.00 , What are some good settings i can try , anyone have some good experiences or Clock speeds i can try out? whats a safe temp to get up to?i would assume below 90c?

 

Are you serious? You couldn't post 5 post over there for a file that will make you gpu experience that more fulfilling. Wow! And now your asking questions on how to use it? You could have done that in that thread and got the file for free with help.

 

Welcome to the GTX 680m club !
The memory seems to be pretty overclockable... I can go to 1200 MHz without problems.
Some people can overclock the core clock over 1000 - at least with my SLI setup I couldn´t do that, I am able to reach 935 MHz / 1200 MHz. Look at some of the Benches posted here.
In Siranas signatur you can see he overclocked to 919/ 1125...

 

So right now before I flash the vbios to
680m - 80.04.67.00.01 'OCedition' revised_01.zip my clock speeds are about 800/ 1800 mem clock. But it's running like 90c with fumark. Not sure if that's a good test but temp seems high. What clock speeds are a good starting point? Thanks again.

 

Have you tried any of the new vbios files posted yet?

 

It´s too high for the GTX 680m. Since it usually starts throttling when reaching 85°/86°... it doesn´t seem to be meant to go higher by that at least for a longer period.
Mine hardly goes above 79°, sometimes it´s 81-82°, but not higher. Even with overclocking...
Maybe you should try repasting you GPU.

 

The new one doesn´t seem to work with the X7200 - as Myrsprett reported a few postings earlier in this thread, after flashing to .67 the X7200 didn´t get over the Boot screen... he had to put an old card as master and flash back the 680m´s that way...

 

The 680m hard throttles at 89-90C.

 

I think it´s depending on vBios. My first vBios that was on the card (don´t remember what vBios that was) throttled it at 86°, because of that I tried another vBios which didn´t. Another pasting job did it so that the temps are not even close to the mid 80´s so I don´t have to deal with it anymore.

 

There was nothing wrong with the vbios from svl7. After updating the bios on my system and flashing the new vbios it workt perfectly :thumbsup:

 

Good to see you´re "back again". Was starting to worry since I didn´t read anything from you since the new SLI Hack was out...
On which BIOS you are right now?