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it works but I need to add a copper shim to better the contact between the heatsink and the GPU die. thankfully based on the thermal paste pattern it looks to be about the sise of the Copper film I already purchased. will update with further developments.

So uhhh, developments This card runs too damn hot and i think there is less than a MM gap between the heatsink and the GPU die. However!!!, I can fix this using the copper foil I was using for the mosfets. Even with the MaxQ Vbios flashed onto the card and limited to 85W it was unable to keep the hotspot from creeping past 90 degrees. After that point it throttles down to 300-700Mhz, and makes certain games unplayable.

Seems Intel has really hit it out of the park with Panther lake X7 - it's like 20-70% faster than last years arrow lake, while neeeding less power than last years Lunar lake - or is the new OLED screen so efficient? The quoted battey life went up to 27 hours (Intel Oled X7 or AMD 2026 with inbuilt graphics ) vs last years 25.5 for the IPS or I think 18.5 hours for the Oled Arrow lake. The 2026 Ultra 5 IPS is even quoted at 29.5 hours of battery life but no price known yet. He quotes that the new case is 35% stiffer. Well any reviews say that the new case really feels premium unlike the plasticky feel of the old magnesium ones. Comparing it with the AMD numbers - Panther lake really seems like the much better choice. AMD seemingly is only slightly better than last year Lunar lake, but actually uses less power than Lunar lake so gets a little better battery life too. I do feel this one is the biggest update since 2021. Well last year Lunar lake/arrow lake was a big update over the rather unsuccesful 12-14.th gen Intel, but this time changes are even bigger if going for Intel. AMD likely 10-20% cheaper however - the basic Ultra 5 IPS pricing isn't announced yet - but the cheapest OLED Ultra 5 Intel vs cheapest AMD with IPS is 20% cheaper (or pay up 25%) But yeah so far I haven't really seen a test of the Ultra 5 anywhere - maybe it's rather Lunar lake performance - seing the architecture is quite similar. Seems like 16Z90U-KU7BK is the best deal right now... X7 with 32GB RAM, and not much more money than the cheapest Ultra 5. There will not be an X7 IPS model in 16". (and Ultra 7 over Ultra 5 won't be any advantage as usual). So if you want the highest performance by a good stretch with great battery life - it's OLED only.

Sorry to hear about the adverse weather. Your temperatures look to be about the same as Brother @Rage Set and a significant portion of the Eastern US (even the Deep South) is experiencing brutal and abnormal ICE and snow, downed power lines, etc. I suspect that Brothers @tps3443 and @electrosoft are also getting hammered pretty severely right now. The Arizona summer heat can be deadly, but Arizona (and most other states in the West) very seldom have severe or catastrophic weather events. Most of the horrible and catastrophic weather events occur in the Central and Eastern states. Brother @Raiderman and I do not see very many temper tantrums from Mother Nature.

@Ronny I would higly recommend you to join the forum at ledstrain.org; lots of controversials infos there, due to the nature of each individual affection, but, with pacience, you might find something usefull. To give you a bait: it's not just the screen that is to blame for the jittering!

@muede in real life, without the use of the dGPU, keyboard light off and monitor brightness to about 10%, around 7 hours. If you're not in a hurry, I've heard that Panther Lake is way more economic

Yup, game developers need to implement garbage mode in their coming games. AAA games or not.... They need to make the games work ok'ish with 8GB vram buffer. This should be good news for those with slight older 8GB cards. Three RTX 50 cards reportedly make up 75% of NVIDIA’s Q1 2026 supply Most RTX 50 cards shipped have either 8GB or 12GB memory. The damn cold her in the north will continue... Minus 21C yesterday. Not good for my briken lungs😒 Coldest winter in 16 years

hope so, got a grade A one for only 250 bucks, sadly is a 7820MQ n not the e3-1575M inside but will be ok, more for upgrades 😄 a 7720 thread doesnt exist here i guess, bcs not much to find when using search.... so lets finish first the M6800 project 🙃

Some time ago Windows surprise-updated my Precision 3551's BIOS. After the unexpected, unwanted, and unrevertable update the machine had truly ghastly coil whine which I was only able to stop by disabling TurboBoost in BIOS. Hadn't realised Windows could do that and have since disabled driver updates in group policy and also turned off the UEFI Capsule Firmware Updates option in BIOS. If the BIOS needs to update I'll do that on my schedule thank you very much. Even then its really scary. First time I updated my 7540's BIOS I had to do so with an external 1080p monitor and keyboard plugged in and the lid closed because of some stupid Dell bug that was freezing BIOS updates for 7540s with 4k screens. To unfreeze I literally had to open the machine and pull the battery in the middle of the (endless) BIOS update. Dell's plan to get it to update was to replace my new motherboard with a refurb one to see if maybe a BIOS would update on that, however I read about the monitor trick on the old site and got it updated that way first. (This, btw, was part of an effort to make Dell Premier Color recognise the screen. It didn't work. In the end Dell had to swap my new screen for some refurb one, just to get DPC to work, so that I could set the profile to a reasonable and not eye wateringly 'viBrAnT!!1!' colour configuration. (I couldn't use Intel settings to adjust it because with their latest version of the Intel gfx driver at that time, any adjustment of colour profiles in the Intel application would cause a black screen requiring a use of the recovery environment to reset Windows to the previous system restore point)). These experiences have not left me with a great impression of BIOS and driver quality control.

It fits and it works!!! Albeit it need more cooling now 😕

I'm going to try a bit more tonight luckily I unplug a few cables and I can pull the whole thing out but it's still a pain to work in due to the water loop and how it's routed. Problem is work is rampant due to the winter storm so I just don't have the time to troubleshoot. There was a local listing for a x570 strix but it's 3 weeks old so I don't expect to hear back I think for the time being ill set up the z490 system just to prevent me from making an impulse buy, I can still play with lossless scaling with the 3090ti + 5700XT foe the interim. Also gives me a chance to play with my pixel 10 pro and how well it handles desktop mode on android since unraid handles most of the grunt work. But that's all just me trying to make lemonade

Hi, I'm a PC enthusiast that used to be active on the now-dead Notebook Review forums. I like premium business notebooks for their no-nonsense reliability and build quality but I also like a notebook with a powerful graphics card for 3D and gaming. Therefore, I always went for a professional mobile workstation as my laptop. I still have all of them because I like PC hardware and with all of these systems I have many years of life history. For example, in 2012 I had a major accident that sent my to a foreign hospital for a week. Could not leave my bed after surgery. I had nobody there to keep me company, could not understand a word of Czech TV and had no internet. But at least I had my Elitebook 8540W with me with all of my music, with some games and a diary to write in. Here is the history of my systems: 2010: HP EliteBook 8540W (Core i5-560M - FirePro M5800 - 8GB DDR3-1066 - Win7Pro x64) 2015: Dell Precision M4800 (Core i7-4810MQ - FirePro M5100 - 24GB DDR3 1600 Win7Pro x64) 2018: Dell Precision 7520 (Xeon E3-1545M v5 - Quadro M2200 - 32GB DDR4 2666 Win11Pro) 2026: Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 (Core Ultra 9 275HX - RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell - 64GB DDR5-5600 - Win11Pro) ^Click image for full size It's quite stunning how much PC technology has improved over time.

That sucks. Sorry to hear that. Did you try removing the RAM and inserting one known good stick to see if it will power up?

Sadly it appears that my aorus x570 itx is dead. Came home yesterday and I can't get it to even turn on anymore, tried multiple psu's and powered them on before and after but when plugged into the motherboard just won't turn on :( Anything I look at will take a week or more to arrive unless I find something local. I still have the z490-h but what ever I do it will take a lot of time to set up. Not happy about the situation. For now I'm just streaming media from unraid until I figure out next steps, likely replacing as I'm not keen on getting anything with the prices the way they are.

Brother @Papusan it looks like there is a solution to use the Matrix BIOS on your Astral. I am using it on my Solid OC and it is the best one. https://www.overclock.net/posts/29553948/

I have flashed many Dell bioses and not yet has one failed. If course, it happens but the good thing with Dell is that the actual flashing is being done outside of the OS. So the actual flashing is being done in a clean software environment. All the failed flashes that I experienced with other branded systems/motherboards was when flashing from within Windows. Some tips: If you have bad memory, don't flash your BIOS. Because the BIOS data will pass through the memory before flashing so bad memory can corrupt the BIOS data before it is flashed. Make sure your notebook battery has some charge before flashing. If power fails, you sill have battery backup power. Be patient. Do not interrupt the flashing. Modern PC's with DDR5 memory can take up to 5 minutes to calibrate their memory timings after a BIOS flash or when detecting the memory. Screen will be black. Just give it time.

Ah yes, vBIOS. I'd forgotten about that, despite having a bit of a process to get mine. vBIOS is like the main BIOS, except it's on the GPU. (the 'v' is for video) Essentially, you're reprogramming the GPU so that it behaves like something the main BIOS can work with. And that could be a hard stop in support, even if the electrical connections are all good. You can't just stuff a random vBIOS in there. It has to be made for the card you're putting it on, because it does a lot else too. So in terms of what *we're* doing, you can kinda think of it as a bridge between the circuitry in the card and the BIOS in the main machine. Both ends of that bridge have to work, and eventually, you won't be able to get the entire combination. That's a hard stop. I've only had the one, and it was on a site that was clearly legacy and specific to the card. So I can't answer that question directly, but just give you a sense of what you're getting into. It also required an old version of Linux to actually install the vBIOS, because the periodic cleanup(s) that happened since then removed that support. Once I did though, modern Linux knew what to do with it. If you're on Windoze, I couldn't tell you anything anymore; I ditched M$ when Win10 refused to update on my M6800.

There is no "one answer" here and what also applies is substandard wages and gross profiteering. The erosion of the middle class is alive and well. This is a byproduct thereof. I've had countless conversations with financial planners and debt lawyers and those in the trenches lean towards other factors than "personal planning or accountability." The world we live in today @Mr. Fox is financially a far cry than even 20 years ago let alone 40. "Picking one's self up by the bootstraps" and "self made" no longer generally apply like it did when we were young. With that being said, are there those who lack common and financial sense? Absolutely. I know quite a few including a few family and friends even but it is not the core of the problem. Remember, we do have plenty of these walking around:

IIRC you cannot undervolt / overvolt quadro GPUs edp won't work (superMG3 tested the RTX3k HP & PNY on R4 edp and it was a no joy).

It should be at least 100% sRGB for photoshop work. But no HDR editing with that budget. 72% NTSC should be not far but might be an issue. Depends on what precision is requested for her work. An alternative would be to buy a pro monitor(there are some Asus ProArt not very expensive) later, if she don´t work with laptop+external monitor she should. her productivity will increase a lot.

Very nice Vivaldi update https://vivaldi.com/new/

The cliché expression that failing to plan is a plan to fail directly applies here. Accumulating stuff is more important than having a plan for many. Unfortunately, most try to pin the blame on other things when, more often than not, it is a problem with personal perspective and priorities for most.

Hi everyone, I have some great news for my Desktop-GFX project! This graphics card from MSI is the perfect fit for the P870xx. The card is called MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Ventus 3X PZ! Other cards also work very well, but this one is a perfect fit.

This is the result of the CPU performance test.

Thanks for the response, Hoping for a speedy recovery for you. Think i found Boardview you describe. HP EliteBook 8560W VANHALEN HR HPB MV MB1 V2 Boardview File - Lab-One Forum i'll take a look. ive got a JST 4 pin splitter set to get wires across the Mobo from JST CPU source. One question i do have is, as you describe wiring the "before coil" doesnt that just equate to post the JST plug / wire as it hits the fan circuit board (not challenging the process, just trying to look at it modularly. I ask as i can pop the little JST wires out to "remove" +5v etc wires from the circuit to add them from DVD edge. so its just the PWM sense that comes across via JST cable solution. also the JST is 4 wire from CPU fan, am i missing something? On the fan PCB its 1,2,3,5 with pad 4 vacant on sunon PCB (hence my confusion) With only the "one wire" PWM source (PIN2) coming to secondary fan, there wont be any tacho feed back to JST header either so in essence no feedback to mobo #FAN2 is xRPM (TBH i dont recall if HWmonitor even shows CPU RPM) So just +5V and GND to find sources (my jerry-rig USB feed would work to test as fan wont pull in excess of 500Ma whilst i give the DVD port a manicure 😄 EDIT: also not sure why but im getting some of the pictures not viewable in you region (which is a PITA)