Thanks for the reply 77leon77!

I am a bit suspicious because on Toshiba-Europe support site for Qosmio x770-107 (PSBY5E ) there is only 1.30 version .
But on the Toshiba support site that MackiePL found (I guess is for US market) there are BIOS versions for Qosmio x770-ST4N04, BT5G23 and BT5G24 models (PSBY5U ) from 1.10 -> 1.40.

Anyway, I hope it doesn't screw up performance and make situation worst than it is already...

Cheers mate!

Yeah, I know 77leon77, its frustrating when you spend 1500-2000€ for a laptop and then you realize you have to spend more time and nerves to fix things, beacuse of lazy Toshiba software engineers.

Anywayz, downgrading went fine and I also overclocked graphic card. I haven't done some serious testing yet, but I noticed +10FPS boost in Witcher 2 so I am a bit happier person. So far, so good..

Also thank You for all the help and great advices from MaciekPL and borland

See ya!

first of all, GPU drivers were never the problem in the throttling issue - the bios still is.
second of all, i think i dont have to comment on the release... 268.85 08 august 2011, that's before even battlefield 3 beta, so for those of you who play these drivers are as obsolete as the ones before them

O_o
very interesting..
i overclocked my gpu to 920/1840/1550 and everything plays fine.. hours in battlefield 3 and no artifacts.. i had some issues when i put the memory to 1600, but when i put it back to 1550 the artifacts were gone.
I have the Nvidia forceware 290.36. The highest temperatures i got were 73 °C for the GPU and 93 °C for the CPU.
By the way my CPU's turbo boost technology turns off when i play battlefield.. Max frequency i got is 2000Mhz((

I guess I'm "lucky"... :-/
My notebook was made in the early September, so it's pretty new. After years of overclocking my other notebook without a single GPU adapter crash EVER, I'm a bit disappointed now. I can't use even 850/1700/1500 without seeing artifacts (at the same time, temperature of the GPU is just 62°C)... so I'm puzzled.

CPU gets a bit too hot for my liking. I haven't really played any game (just testing for now), but the CPU goes up to 90˘C occasionally.

Turbo Boost works for me, at least on desktop. Does it work in other applications? How did you find out it's not working in BF3 in the first place? 93°C seems very hot at constant 2 GHz.

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Althought it's not the subject of this thread, speaking of current Qosmio series, I too think it's, well... a bit weird, quality wise.
Besides throttling, drivers and now OC stability problems on my GAMING NOTEBOOK, I've been having
problems with its battery from the very beginning. It had been replaced the very next day because of high "wear level" out of the box. Now, the replaced one behaves almost the same (it's already on cca. 83% of its declared (max.) capacity, just a few charging cycles later). I consider myself happy if I make it a full hour on battery or so. Seems like Toshiba had already given up and abandoned this model and wants nothing to do with their "gaming" creation. Really, how hard can it be to provide at least one more driver update for your product? The product which, at the same time, suffers from the GPU throttling which is almost unheard of even in business computers series? And all of that while users all over the world flood internet forums searching remedy for problems that Toshiba created from BIOS v1.20 onwards? That all is the definition of word "shame" or "fail", as I see it.

To be honest, I myself had never experienced throttling with my "default" v1.30 BIOS (never tested anyway) because I went straight to v1.10, just in case. Now I'm tempted to try v1.40, hoping for a miracle.
Thank you, Toshiba, for making me a believer!

I did benchmarking in 3D Mark Vantage (and measuring temperatures with GPU-Z and CoreTemp), scoring 79xx GPU points with Toshiba's old drivers, around 8100 with latest NVidia's WHQL drivers and around 8450 with my mighty overclocked GPU (and praying it won't crash while doing it).
One test (of many) in particular had problems... The one with mountains and rivers where lighting is tested... It ran almost twice slower then on the AMD 5850 with DDR3 which I used in my old notebook (20% overclocked).

I did notice some inconsistency with CPU scores... It would score +/- a few thousand points in the same test, but I never got much into it. I'll check how Turbo Boost behaves when I finally install some game... That is, If I don't get rid of this "gaming notebook" in the meantime. :-/

It must be some kind of AMD/ATi optimized test then... Unless older generation NVidia cards know how to handle it. Anyway, if I had that kind of monster in my desktop PC, I would throw this Qosmio right away, no remorse!

If I set OC too high (and here I mean lower then you and others on this forum), I see artifacts right on the desktop, the very same moment I push "Apply" in the MSI Afterburner. As a matter of fact, on 900/1800/1600 adapter crashed in like five seconds, I didn't even realize what's going on!

During 3D Mark Vantage benchmarking, my CPU temperature goes up to 80°C if I run GPU tests only. With CPU tests included, the whole test, of course, takes more time to finish and is much more demanding, resulting in CPU temps up to 90°C (rarely more). TJ Max for this CPU is 100°C so I guess CPU throttles back when you reach 90-is... You can't get cold with this laptop, that's for sure!