CMOS De-Animator is a service utility which allows you to invalidate the checksum of your system's CMOS memory, resetting all settings to default and clearing any stored BIOS passwords (if any) upon reboot.
It seems like only yesterday that I was assisting with the firmware mods and review of the. What an amazing machine that was.
It totally transformed my opinion of Clevo and I fell in love with the multi-generation product model that I now regard as the best high performance laptop ever made. The P870XX, including the latest P870TM, has no match.It was with great excitement that I bought my own P870DM-G from. That beast was truly amazing by every measurement.Along came GTX 1080, and with it great disappointment for me and all other P870DM-G owners to learn that a simple and affordable GPU upgrade was out of the question. With mixed emotions, my Alienkiller found a new home with and it is now in the loving care of.With equal excitement, I purchased Alienkiller II (EVOC P870DM3) from our friends at HIDevolution and the eager firmware development with Brother that made that an even better product than its older brother. But, the fact that I could not simply upgrade the P870DM-G with GTX 1080 continued to be a sore subject that gnawed at my soul.
Sure, it can use MSI 1070, but a machine as amazing as the P870DM-G deserved far better than a second-fiddle gamer-boy GPU upgrade.Fast-forward to 2018. The curse has been broken. The mighty Phoenix rises from the ashes to wreak the havoc it was born to inflict upon the pathetic and cursed world of crippled BGA turdbooks! I know some of you have been patiently waiting to see results for the GTX 1080 upgrade for the P870DM-G. Sorry it took so long to get this done.This is definitely not an upgrade for the faint of heart. Unfortunately, the good old days when we had MXM standards and many upgrades were a simple bolt-on affair seem to be over. The day of long-lasting, easily upgradable, properly serviceable, truly uncompromising high-performance laptops that perform extremely well has essentially passed.For those with the determination to get it done and the desire to give a nasty-finger salute to the retarded clowns (the ODMs) that have ruined everything with BGA and proprietary crap, this thread is for you.First off, this absolutely never would have happened without the following individuals that contributed time and money to the project.
I am but the humble grunt here. Big shout out and mega-kudos to:– for providing a special price on the system and for the donor GTX 1080– for purchasing this system from Tanzmeister and donating it to the cause– for the hours of labor that went into the BIOS mods that made the 7700K and GTX 1080 work– for the steady hand and superior soldering skills that rewired the MXM slot to power the GPUand - for the donated 1080 GPU 'T' heat sink and for ordering the power cables that were neededI lacked the courage and self-confidence to do the do the MXM wiring mod.
Khenglish knocked it out in a few days and also while he had it. Hopefully, we will see the 8700K upgrade in place soon. The BIOS is ready, but there are some other mods we did not expect that will have to take place at the hardware level before that can happen.But, this thread is all about the GPU, and I know most of the highly intelligent and discriminating folks that purchased a P870DM-G did so for gaming. That is the one thing that most of you care about, and nothing (at the moment) games better in a laptop than the wicked Clevo GTX 1080.
So, without further ado, let’s have a look at the hardware mods.CHASSIS MODSThe front frame has to be trimmed due to the massive Clevo GTX 1080 form factor. One of the stand-offs for the retainer screws has to be removed from the metal bracket. A stand-off underneath the GPU (attached to the palm rest) has to be chopped off so the GPU can lay flat in the chassis. The color-coding of the power cable for the GTX 1080 is not as obvious.MXM CIRCUIT MODOther than the heat sink, the most intimidating part of the mod is supplying power to typically reserved (unused) pins in the MXM slot that Clevo utilized to make their version of the GTX 1080 incompatible with a standard MXM slot.
The mod is pretty straight-forward, but simply counting off the pins and worrying I might accidentally solder wires to the wrong pins and burn up the motherboard or GPU was too intimidating for me. I was going cross-eyed trying to count off and mark the pins. Was gracious enough to do this part. He had already validated the proof of concept and paved the way to this by modding the MXM slot on his P170EM to install a GTX 1080 in that old beast.Below is an image from his P170EM MXM wiring mod.
Had to find a place for the GPU auxilary power for his P170EM, so that part is not necessary for the P870DM-G since we have connections on the motherboard.Side note: The modded MXM slot still works with normal MXM. The GTX 980M still worked exactly the same in the MXM slot after it had the power mod for the Clevo GTX 1080. With the proper power mods for the GPU and MXM slot in place, the GTX 1080 booted like it was made for the P870DM-G. Even the driver installed itself automatically (no INF mod required) and G-SYNC works perfectly.CUSTOM GTX 1080 HEAT SINKThis was a new venture for me. I had never disassembled, tweaked and reassembled a heat sink before.
I ruined a couple of them learning what not to do, but once I had figured out what doesn't work it was not too bad. The key is using lots of clamps to keep things from falling apart once the solder begins to flow, using low melting point solder and being very careful to not kink and ruin the heat pipes. The end product is not as pretty as a factory built heat sink, but it works pretty decent, especially considering it was done by a noob like me.My hot air station did not heat enough surface area for this task. What ultimately ended up working best was using a 1500W heat gun, getting the GPU side of the copper heat plate hot enough to melt the solder (138°C) on the opposite side while the pipes were clamped in place with solder paste.I tried using, but that was not effective for heat pipes.
Because they are made to conduct heat, the Cold Shield was not able to stop the heat from migrating as it would for normal copper pipes (like household water pipes). I ended up putting the radiator end of the heat sink in a deep stew pot filled with cold water to help keep the heat concentrated to the GPU end of the heat sink while soldering.Below are a few photos of the custom heat sink. Click to expand.Just went you thought it was crazy.
It got crazier. More to follow. There's a little more firmware tweaking left to do. But, IT WORKS! - Update8700K Firmware is essentially finished.
Everything that was not working before works now. The impossible is merely an inconvenience. Team PremaMod breaks all the rules. Intel i7-8700K runs perfectly on Z170. Windows 7 runs flawlessly on Skylake, Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake. Laptops work great with desktop CPUs. Everything everyone has been told by the Intel and Micro$oft cartels is a bald-faced lie.CUSTOM CPU HEAT SINK5/19/2018 - UpdateI have successfully modded a P870DM3 CPU heat sink by added two more heat pipes.
It is not enough of an improvement to justify the effort. It takes a little bit longer to saturate the heat sink, but the TDP handling capacity seems more or less the same. It really needs a larger radiator and a stronger fan to see any meaningful gains in thermal management.Next mod will be to obtain a P870TM1 CPU heat sink (made for 8700K) with direct contact between the heat pipes and CPU. If that brings as much improvement as expected, I will mod it as well, adding more heat pipes as I did with this mod.Photos are in the spoiler. The cooling on this is not really adequate for extreme overclocked benching unless I break out my portable AC unit.
It would do fine on that, and I will get to it later on.I suspect most of you are interested in how it games and whether it stays cool enough for gaming. So, how does it work? I will let you guys decide. Here are my preliminary tests with some demanding titles.Nothing gets a GPU warmed up like a loop of Unigine Heaven with everything maxed out.
Here are two full loops of Heaven followed by the benchmark results.How hot did it get?How about 2 back-to-back loops of 2 runs of Metro Last Light benchmark with everything maxed out?Below are some screen shots showing the GPU temps. It seems like only yesterday that I was assisting with the firmware mods and review of the EUROCOM SKY X9. What an amazing machine that was. It totally transformed my opinion of Clevo and I fell in love with the product line that I now regard as the best high performance laptop ever made.
The P870XX, including the latest P870TM, has no match.It was with great excitement that I bought my own P870DM-G from. That beast was truly amazing by every measurement.Along came GTX 1080, and with it great disappointment for me and all other P870DM-G owners to learn that a simple and affordable GPU upgrade was out of the question. With mixed emotions, my Alienkiller found a new home with and it is now in the loving care of.With equal excitement, I purchased Alienkiller II from our friends at HIDevolution and the eager firmware development that made that an even better product than its older brother.
But, the fact that I could not simply upgrade the P870DM-G with GTX 1080 continued to be a sore subject than gnawed at me. Sure, it can use MSI 1070, but a machine as amazing as the P870DM-G deserved better than a second-fiddle GPU upgrade.Fast-forward to 2018. The curse has been broken. The mighty Phoenix rises from the ashes to wreak the havoc it was born to inflict upon the work of crippled turdbooks!
I know some of you have been patiently waiting to see results for the GTX 1080 upgrade for the P870DM-G. Sorry it took so long to get this done.This is definitely not an upgrade for the faint of heart. Unfortunately, the good old days when we had MXM standards and many upgrades were a simple bolt-on affair seem to be over. The time of long-lasting, easily upgradable high performance laptops that perform extremely well has past.For those with the determination to get it done and the desire to give a nasty-finger salute to the retarded clowns (the ODMs) that have ruined everything with BGA and proprietary crap, this thread is for you.First off, this absolutely never would have happened without the following individuals that contributed time and money to the project. I am but the humble grunt here.
Big shout out and mega-kudos to:– for providing a special price on the system and for the donor GTX 1080– for purchasing this system from Tanzmeister and donating it to the cause– for the hours of labor that went into the BIOS mods that made the 7700K and GTX 1080 work– for the steady hand and superior soldering skills that rewired the MXM slot to power the GPUand - for the donated 1080 GPU 'T' heat sink and for ordering the power cables that were neededI lacked the courage and self-confidence to do the do the MXM wiring mod. Khenglish knocked it out in a few days and also beefed up the CPU power delivery circuit while he had it. Hopefully, we will see the 8700K upgrade in place soon.
The BIOS is ready, but there are some other mods we did not expect that will have to take place at the hardware level before that can happen.But, this thread is all about the GPU, and I know to those that purchased a P870DM-G for gaming, that is the one thing that most care about. So, without further ado, let’s have a look at the hardware mods.CHASSIS MODSThe front frame has to be trimmed due to the massive form factor. One of the stand-offs for the retainer screws has to be removed from the metal bracket. A stand-off underneath the GPU (attached to the palm rest) has to be chopped off so the GPU can lay flat in the chassis.
The color-coding of the power cable for the GTX 1080 is not as obvious.MXM CIRCUIT MODOther than the heat sink, the most intimidating part of the mod is supplying power to reserved (unused) pins in the MXM slot that Clevo utilized to make their version of the GTX 1080 incompatible with MXM slot standards. The mod is pretty straight-forward, but simply counting off the pins and worrying I might accidentally solder wires to the wrong pins and burn up the motherboard or GPU was too intimidating for me. I was going cross-eyed trying to count off and mark the pins. Was gracious enough to do this part. He had already validated the proof of concept and paved the way to this by modding the MXM slot on his P170EM to install a GTX 1080 is that old beast.Below is an image from his P170EM MXM wiring mod. Had to find a place for the GPU auxilary power for his P170EM, so that part is not necessary for the P870DM-G since we have connections on the motherboard.
With the proper power mods for the GPU and MXM slot in place, the GTX 1080 booted like it was made for the P870DM-G. Even the driver installed itself automatically (no INF mod required) and G-SYNC works perfectly.CUSTOM HEAT SINKThis was a new venture for me.
I had never disassembled, tweaked and reassembled a heat sink before. I ruined a couple of them learning what not to do, but once I had figured out what doesn't work it was not too bad. The key is using lots of clamps to keep things from falling apart once the solder begins to flow, using low melting point solder and being very careful to not kink and ruin the heat pipes. The end product is not as pretty as a factory built heat sink, but it works pretty decent, especially considering is was done by a noob like me.My hot air station did not heat enough surface area for this task. What ultimately ended up working best was using a 1500W heat gun, getting the GPU side of the copper heat plate hot enough to melt the solder (138°C) on the opposite side while the pipes were clamped in place with solder paste.I tried using, but that was not effective for heat pipes. Because they are made to conduct heat, the Cold Shield was not able to stop the heat from migrating as it would for normal copper pipes (like household water pipes). I ended up putting the radiator end of the heat sink in a stew pop filled with cold water to help keep the heat concentrated to the GPU end of the heat sink while soldering.Below are a few photos of the custom heat sink.
The cooling on this is not really adequate for extreme overclocked benching unless I break out my portable AC unit. It would do fine on that, and I will get to it later on.I suspect most of you are interested in how it games and whether it stays cool enough for gaming. So, how does it work? I will let you guys decide. Here are my preliminary tests with some demanding titles.Nothing gets a GPU warmed up like a loop of Unigine Heaven with everything maxed out. Here are two full loops of Heaven followed by the benchmark results.How hot did it get?How about 2 back-to-back loops of 2 runs of Metro Last Light benchmark with everything maxed out?Below are some screen shots showing the GPU temps.
Can you actually post useful benchmarks?
Download the package, it contains:-NiBiToR.v5.9 (use the latest)-nvflash.v5.100.0.1 (use the latest)-USBimage w7 ( for making a bootable USB, tested with windows7 64bit)-HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool ( need it to make the bootable USB)-GUIDE with images like in this post, how to use NiBiTor and how to save bios with GPU-Z or with the flash tool in DOS. The command prom. Dont do it the hard waySkip Ahead to Windows Flash Guide if you get board of the back story lol.I stumbled across this post (from 2010) after realising my two and now rather ancient 7600gt cards were running different bios versions.
One had for some time show video corruption when playing video (its driving my secondary screen so it had been just a little niggle) it came and went and appeared pretty temperature related. Cutting a long story short I realised with GPUz that one had an earlier bios on, the other had the latest bios on it.Something worth pointing out here: GPU Z didnt read/save my bios correctly on my 7600 GT's properly and after attempting to import to nibitor, as advised here and by other threads was the way to go about it, I decided it wasnt probably safe to flash as nibitor threw out a 'data position/length out of bounds.' System NameSelf-BuiltProcessorIntel Core i7-5960X Haswell-E 8-CoreMotherboardMSI X99A GODLIKE GamingCoolingFull Custom LoopMemoryG.SKILL Ripjaws DDR-4 16GB PC4-24000Video Card(s)EV GA GTX 1080 ClassifiedStorageIntel 480GB PCI-E x4 SSD + 2x Toshiba 3TB.Display(s)Dell U3415W 34' Curved MonitorCaseThermaltake Core X9 BlackAudio Device(s)On-BoardPower SupplyCORSAIR AX1500iMouseAnker Precision Gaming MouseKeyboardDECK Legend FrostSoftwareWay Too Damned Much!Benchmark ScoresIn Progress. System NameSelf-BuiltProcessorIntel Core i7-5960X Haswell-E 8-CoreMotherboardMSI X99A GODLIKE GamingCoolingFull Custom LoopMemoryG.SKILL Ripjaws DDR-4 16GB PC4-24000Video Card(s)EV GA GTX 1080 ClassifiedStorageIntel 480GB PCI-E x4 SSD + 2x Toshiba 3TB.Display(s)Dell U3415W 34' Curved MonitorCaseThermaltake Core X9 BlackAudio Device(s)On-BoardPower SupplyCORSAIR AX1500iMouseAnker Precision Gaming MouseKeyboardDECK Legend FrostSoftwareWay Too Damned Much!Benchmark ScoresIn Progress. System NameSelf-BuiltProcessorIntel Core i7-5960X Haswell-E 8-CoreMotherboardMSI X99A GODLIKE GamingCoolingFull Custom LoopMemoryG.SKILL Ripjaws DDR-4 16GB PC4-24000Video Card(s)EV GA GTX 1080 ClassifiedStorageIntel 480GB PCI-E x4 SSD + 2x Toshiba 3TB.Display(s)Dell U3415W 34' Curved MonitorCaseThermaltake Core X9 BlackAudio Device(s)On-BoardPower SupplyCORSAIR AX1500iMouseAnker Precision Gaming MouseKeyboardDECK Legend FrostSoftwareWay Too Damned Much!Benchmark ScoresIn Progress.
I'm having a hell of a time I flash all the time no issues until I get to the 7900 series. It's a 7900 GT flashed it to a newer version which fixed all the issues except the major one (3D). So I type nvflash -5 -6 7900bios2.rom. Successful done. And it doesn't change because i turned off boot message in the.rom and changed 3d fan from 30% to 100% and had a increase in clocks.
I checked it in Nibitor and it shows the changes and the.rom is in good shape.I'm getting confused now that I've been doing it the same way for so long on so many different cards I think I have been doing nvflash myrom.rom -5 -6 enter but now it says i should be doing nvflash -5 -6 myrom.rom enterWhy is it that I flash and it doesn't change a single thing? Can someone please help?ThanksWhat's on the card nowWhat I'm trying to flash yet it says successful with zero changes like it said it flashed yet it didn't change a thing.
Hi Guys i did a Flash on my gtx 770. I take a backup of orginal bios and edited boot menu with nibitor 60.06 and saved the new bios (but nibitor crashed during the save operation)I ran nvflash in to windows and flashed bios.i saw 'successful update' messageand All setting was okI rest my pc and now I see a Black screen (monitor is standing by)at the background windows works but screen is blank and monitor is in standby modeWhat should i do now?Please heeeeeeeeelp meThank you very much.