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We can go to DMs if you're interested to get one of the RTX 4070 card

Do you have pics and price?

I dont really like this guy but here is a quick and dirty how to find different SMD components that are cactus. Start here and then ask for further information as required.

With any BIOS the RTX 40XX work as long as your BIOS is in UEFI, your screen is eDP and the DP_D port of your MXM is DP/eDP. A must: I used my backlight mod v2 to power on the display and to modify the brightness. I also contacted someone for a custom heatsink. I have a RTX 4070 with the backlight mod already installed onto it.

Ok, which one is the correct Bios? For the P775dm there are two. Old Graphics or standard. And how do the 40xx get working?

Upgrading to the RTX 4070 MXM or 4080 MXM. I sell one. Upgrading the heatsink, upgrading the fans to the strongest ones. Upgrading to an i7 8700K with the Dsanke BIOS mod + you need to cover some of your LGA pads to make this upgrade successful. Upgrading to 64GB DDR4 RAM. Upgrading the screen to a 4K 120Hz with the correct 40 pins eDP cable

So, I bought a cheap XMG U716 with I7-6700 and Clevo GTX 980 180w GPU. What is possible in this Device? And with or without DSanke Mod-BIOS?

Hi everyone, I'm tuning my MSI Katana 15 HX (Core i9-14900HX, RTX 5060 Laptop). Despite having solid thermal headroom and an undervolted profile, the system is strictly hitting an EC (Embedded Controller) / hardware power limit around ~85W to 93W sustained under Cinebench R23 / CPU-Z stress tests. ### Current Tuning & Thermal Setup: - Undervolt: -129.9 mV Core / Cache offset via ThrottleStop FIVR. - AC Loadline tuned to 90 in BIOS. - Thermal Mod: Conductonaut Extreme Liquid Metal on the CPU die, and Upsiren UX PRO Ultra thermal putty on the VRMs / VRAM with the stock aluminum plate heatsink. - Thermals: Extremely cool. Full load package power peaks at ~93.7W at only 73°C (with fan running moderately; if fans are maxed out, it drops into the low 50s°C). VRM temps stay around 70–80°C. - Cinebench R23 score: ~28,185 pts at ~93W. - CPU-Z Multi-Thread: ~12,100 pts. ### The Issue: 1. In ThrottleStop TPL, Long Power PL1 and Short Power PL2 are set higher (115W/135W+), Sync MMIO unchecked, Disable Controls unchecked. MSI Center is set to Extreme Performance Mode. 2. In the Advanced BIOS (Power & Performance / Config TDP), PL1/PL2 are also configured higher (115W-150W). 3. However, whenever the CPU package power attempts to breach ~85W–93W, the system immediately cuts clock ratios back down to lock the package power around 82W–85W. 4. I want to keep IMON settings strictly at stock/untouched to maintain system stability and SVID accuracy. ### Questions for the community: 1. Is there any known software, MSR flag, or BIOS setting to bypass this EC-enforced ~85W/93W limit without physical motherboard modifications? 2. Has anyone found custom EC firmware or specific register offsets in the AMI Aptio V BIOS that grant control over this chassis' power limits? 3. Could secondary power limiters (such as Platform PL4, VR current limits, or Tau window) be triggering this throttle? Attached are my ThrottleStop screens, TPL, FIVR, and benchmark results. Any advice or technical insight from experienced tuners would be greatly appreciated!

Wow my ancient write up is still helping someone today! Nice!

is there a reasonably prices workstation that doesnt have bad thermals and power management?

That's in line with what I got on 7770 (see the very second post in this thread). If you're getting that on 7670, I guess that's even better, because that system is a bit more thermally constrained. Some people have put in work to get better scores. But unfortunately, these aren't the best systems when it comes to thermals and power management, which is a big part of the reason why I ditched it as my daily driver after less than a year.

And for me, the fun is in the journey of learning and gaining experience.

I bought a GPU, but it turned out to have a problem, and I don’t know what caused it. So I decided to return it and save myself the headache. Now I’m trying to repair the damaged GPU that was working perfectly and was known to be reliable.

They do not, that was the case on 8570 and 8770 G5 and G6 (probably G4 too) have eDP on DP_D position of MXM slot, G1, G2 and G3 have eDP on DP_C so either a custom vbios is required to get picture on screen or a backlight cable mod. All zbooks have only eDP display connections. 17 g1 and 17 g2 have an eDP to LVDS converter on the display cable because they used LVDS displays, the GPU will read the display as eDP however.

if i recall (i think it was GuitarG) put the P5200 in his 8570/8770 unit, i think theres a YT vid on it, But is amazing the p5200 runs in an older unit as it does alot of the heavy lifting for games usage. Again not sure if the newer G5/G6 need a DC screen for them to work.

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The RTX 5000 MXM from HP has different mounting holes for the heatstink + screw standoffs to attach the card to the motherboard, this is compared to the standard MXM cards. If you want to fit a P5200 in the 17 G6 you will need the heatsink from the 17 G5, and vice versa if you want the RTX 5000 in the 17 G5. You will also have to grind down the screw standoffs on the 17 G6 motherboard and either : - stick some thick rubber pad and screw the card down on that. - stick some thick thermal pad so that the card "sticks" to the motherboard via the pad + cools down a little bit (especially the extra VRAM chips on the bottom of the card) Hope this helps !

You have to check the signal quality on the traces with oscillograph. If the equipment is not available you cannot know with high confidence about signal quality causing data loss. You would have to take the financial risk and remove C0, D1 and re-test VRAM. The best option financially would be to get new used GPU.

The two VRAM chips that are most likely faulty are C0 and D1, because they were close to the damaged area. The remaining low error counts are probably just signal interference, meaning “error ghosting.” I think there is still a good chance the card can be repaired.

Good to know. I will see if there's a way to keep it visible with any cpu, although I do not know if not XM sandy bridge have turbo bin OC support like ivy bridge. The uploaded bios works up to Pascal on R3. My next version has Turing working too in eDP & SG. Still haven't figured out RTX 4090 in PEG. Also want to try and get 16GB DIMMs working too before releasing the next version. Other last change will be bios option per sata port to choose either sata3 or sata2 speed.

Tô fix High voltage spikes Power lower ACDC, also i water cooled my psu 330w psu for NOW, and about those Power Full fans, are they more noisy? Are they much more Power Full?? Spin faster? Or Just like -5c?

High Sorry for late reply, My phone got stolen, But yes Just lowered AC load LINE tô 130 and dc loadline too Its in custom vr settings, Ive managed tô 4.9ghz ALL cores até 1.24 override,with these settings however i do thermal trottled or Get constant 88-89c só im waiting for my cicichen custom water cooler now(also thanks for the tip about him and How much It Takes for It to arrive to you?) I plan in getting a 780w Power supply cus my GPU IS shunt modded, THANKS to you And other people here i could confidently shunt mod It, Right NOW im at 0.960v 4.0ghz ALL cores and 3.9ghz ring Also This cicichen IS such a sweetheart he even purchased a m6 quick release and Will slgive It to me for free tô use in the watercooler

Yes and no, those Newer laptops are thermal trottled, also you can shunt mod those gpus tô 180w, my shunt modded 2070 IS desktop LEVEL performance,and when i Get a 3080 Will be as good as its desktop counterpart, for the CPU...true But Just slap a Q1j1 oc tô 5ghz and a watercooler

I do see higher TDP draw on the GPU in performance mode. It goes up to 170W at QHD and max graphics. I am surprised there have been more show up on ebay. Not that I would have been happy with the ebay route as extending the warranty was far easier by having a B&H Photo "official reseller" receipt that MSI was willing to work with. I have not looked close enough at WoW Forever but it really depends on if we can get in a good community and its content is actually more fun than retail. I was actually more excited about WotLK remix coming next year. My IRL friend did purchase the pre-pack though so I will probably at least try Forever once the initial out the gate rush subsides.

on precision 7670 i9-12950hx 3080ti my 3d mark time spy result is 11 390 my cinebench r23 multi is 14 990 after repasting with ptm 7960 and cleaning ffans isn't that a pretty bad result?