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Hello, yes they make such flex cables that go from 40 pin .5 to 40 pin .4 I have used such an adapter for my precision 7720 to connect to a 4k .4 pitch lcd. They are a but flimsy and yes they have no retaining clips. However the sellers provide double sided tape. What you do is insert the male of the cable into the lcd (secure with tape so it won't move). Flip the flex cable around, remove sticky tape and stick it on the top of the lcd controller board. Voilà you converted your lcd to .5 pitch! Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of the installation. Here is one of the flex cable.

It seems they make boards that act like couplers for eDP cables, and a cable with two male eDP connectors, being 40 pin .4mm pitch to 40 pin .5mm pitch.. it’ll be a bit pricey, but I think I can cobble together a solution if it turns out the lack of the retaining clip is the issue with these cheap adapters.

Recently ordered a dell precision 7740, to replace my m6800. It has a nice cpu, the 9980HK, but no gpu, and otherwise low specs outside of the big battery.. as such, I’m looking into upgrades. Currently looking at getting a gpu, along with all the needed cables, required new heatsink, and installing a better display. I have a panel I got ridiculously cheap a bit ago, from a guy selling the display assembly from an x17 r2, since the magnesium back panel was cracked. It’s the right size, eDP, 360hz, but it appears its .4mm pin pitch. From a bit of hunting around, it seems the precision 7740’s UHD 4 lane panels are .5 mm pin pitch. Model number on it is B173HAN05.2. (As a side note, I do know the UHD cable only works with the infrared webcam, and I’m fine with just wrapping the lead in kapton tape and having no webcam.) On this forum I’ve seen people use adapters for a discrepancy like this, with some mixed success, with TheQuentincc’s success using one on a 7550, and a fried lcd power line on page 8 of the owner’s thread of the 7#40 series of precisions. All of this, has lead me to wonder, what’s the deal with these exactly? Should I watch out for bad adapters, keep an eye on the pinouts being the same, take extreme care with my install, or just not even bother? From the looks of it, the flex pcb ones don’t have a locking clip which seems like an important part of this..

I was looking at different cards. Apparently p5000 and Tesla P6 are around $200 CAD. RTX 3000 is $130. I got my Tesla M6 for $30 and I think RTX 3000 would make the most sense if the DX11 mystery gets resolved. I also tried overlocking the display. But I get eye strain for anything above 60hz. Then I used my iPhone and slow motion camera, I can see the screen is actually flickering. I also got an AX210 on the way to replace the old 6300agn. I guess right now the biggest weakness of this laptop would be the 60hz non vrr display and the 2920xm. Not sure if there is anything else worth to upgrade.

Okay that reminded me. M17xR3 originally shipped with SATA3 support. THEN dell decided to limit it to SATA2 due to one of the slots having issues with SATA3 drives. My BIOS (same as unlocked ones) retain SATA3 support. I believe it was a sandy bridge issue with very early chipsets, that's why M18x doesn't have that issue. SO SATA3 drive will only work properly in one of the 2 slots. SATA2 drives work fine in either slot. Maybe I will look into adding a setting to limit to SATA2 in bios for the future.

Guys! This deal is insane! It really makes it hard to cope with a $899.99 9950X3D2 right now. 🤨 The 270K Plus is $264.99 on Amazon. That is an insane value. This price for essentially a mix of 14900KS gaming performance and 285K multithreaded performance is unheard of.

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Coming together. Trying to swap over nothing at all from my main build except for the 5090. In case I don’t really care for the platform. Im hoping it exceeds my expectations though, and if it does it’ll be going in to the big case .

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I’m putting it together on the test bench with a 480 and a single D5. My cat thinks so many dimm slots are only good for standing on easier. Also, don’t mind my ghetto waterblock mounting. It works!

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Hi, I’ve been looking around for the 120hz 3d panels as an entire unit to replace my awful 1600 x 900 display. Seems to be quite hard to find and pricy. I did make an attempt to try and find all the parts individually but that also yielded no results. i was wondering if anyone has tried any other 1080p panels, even if I can give it a custom resolution utility oc to 80hz I’ll be happy. I’m guessing it would need to be LVDS too. I do have a GTX 970m 6GB if that helps regarding compatibility if was able to find a cheap 120hz display. any help would be appreciated, as this current display looks awful.

I ended up just reseating the ssd into the 2nd drive bay & since then I’ve had no problems.

Have we heard of widespread meltdowns in AI farms / data centers where these cards are pushed 24/7/365? The connector is problematic, but I am curious about locations that have large, widespread deployments in use all the time. --------------------------------------------------------- Sugi's run on PR with no optimization tweaks like those who "play" 3Dmark 🤣

Thanks so much for the info. I'll set it up that way as soon as it arrives.

thanks for your interest . ya that's right that happened to me before but in this case it gave 8 beebs . but in this case there is no beebs and shutdown after few seconds

It is a problem. Do the process without the 1070 in. System tries to boot in PEG mode and fails. If you had an 880m or earlier, maybe it could boot

The Asus SP rating on AMD is less reliable because it can vary by temperature when the calculation is performed. It's kind of weird. The hotter the CPU is at the time the calculation is performed increases the SP value. I have only seen a change in the SP rating by 1 with my CPUs. My 9950x has an SP rating of 119 it goes down to 118 if I flash the BIOS when the system is totally cold. It may be different for the 9950x3d2 but 118-120 is about average. My 4585PX is SP120. However, the VF curve doesn't fluctuate as much. You can look at the Prediction area at the lower right to see what voltage value is displaying for a manual core ratio. Try setting a fixed all core ratio of 55.00 and look for a voltage value of 1.400V or less in the Prediction box and see if it will boot with the FCLK set to 2200. If it will not boot with 2200 FCLK I wouldn't want to keep it Use that first video that I shared with you the other day in this thread (added below) for tuning a per core PBO Curve Optimizer. Stronger cores will have a lower voltage value by default and will accept a smaller negative offset then the weaker cores. You want to see as little variance between core quality as possible when you look at the VF curve page in the BIOS. Being able and to set a deeper negative offset on individual cores that have a higher default voltage value on the SP rating page isn't a good thing to see. The wider the SP rating variance is on each core in a CCD is less desirable.

the gtx 1070 was installed but that shouldn't eb a problem I think . I followed the instructions . usb to fat32 with A03 and got the needed file renamed it and sent to the usb then pressing end and putting the power . now all the fans starts and laptop just not doing anything for 30 minutes tried five times . no beebs or anything

24x multiplier gets you roughly 3.2Ghz and is quite easy to acheive. I can do up to 27x on one of my 920XM, other one can do 26x. 24-25x is the "sweet spot" for temps and power consumption

Try restoring defaults in bios and see if that helps.

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Since installing the bios when trying to boot I seem to get this. Normally a reboot sorts it. could it be something to do with the new bios, as prior to installing I wasn’t having this issue.

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See if you can increase the multiplier on your current cpu. I don't think you can but I never got to test without a XM CPU as that's all I have.