7970M mod project.

Meaker

Meaker

Meaker

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Model:
16F2 barebone (MSI)

Pre-preparation:

180W PSU
Motherboard GPU power mod

Materials ordered:

GX660 heatsink (5870 mobility model)
MX-4 thermal paste
Low profile copper heatsinks
HD7970M 2GB GDDR5
Dremel 300 for heatsink modifications
2mm thermal pads for rear side component cooling.


Preparations:

heatsinkmod2.jpg


Green = mild grinding
Red = grind down to level

2 weeks till I get the card atm, heatsink should come next week and give me time to work on it.
 
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Hey guys, I can't post on these forums where I got it i'm afraid.

However you can head over to notebookreview to find it. The 7970M cost me £330 inc delivery from Canada, the other materials have added to that a bit of course.

I'll recover some of that by selling my current card (a GTX570M).
 
The system in my sig, the 6990M cooler mostly fits, depending how its designed exactly.

Oh wait, in the M18x, yes it would, they have tried crossfire in an ES on the new R2, not been tested on the R1 yet.
 
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Sorry I should mention that's a different person, Just the first overclocked scores from people who got early samples.

My heatsink and dremel will arrive this week, the card the week after.
 
Differences can be on several fronts:

Different connectors (Including reversed)
Bios keys on the card itself.
Vbios integrated into the system bios.

Comparing that card to this standard one in front of me, all the holes are in the right place, though it looks like the heatsink mounting points are threaded on the samsung card.

Also notice the cutout on the top right of the card (to the right of the 3 phases) I believe a standard MXM card is the length of the first notch (not the second) so if that is cut out to fit round something a standard card may not fit.

All this trouble to not use standard MXM :/

You could always look into getting a 7970M from one of the new models, it may be similar.

EDIT:

http://www.3dnews.ru/_imgdata/img/2012/01/12/622780/s700g7a-inside-2.jpg

Hmz, it may fit, it is just a backplate too.....
 
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Flying, you just need to modify the heatsink a bit more, it looks like the 7970M draws less power than the 6990m and 580m at this point.
 
They are not made up, they have been varified by several trusted forum members with different systems.

The card scores around 6000 stock and 7000 overclocked.

The 7970M should arrive next week.

I'm a bit slower because I am getting a retail card and not an ES.
 
Heatsink.jpg


Heatsink modifications complete, card has been delayed a week :( But it should now come with official drivers which is good.
 
I'm now getting it from a small UK boutique who I have personal contact with (it's a dell card).

Some clevo's (The HM series IIRC) currently have issues with the 7970M (though the bios modders at notebookreview are working on it).

I recommend you head over to those forums to get more info.
 
Phew ships tomorrow :D

Btw sager is working on getting the 7970M compatible at least for the HM machines that shipped with AMD cards.
 
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