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I've had to do a few RMAs with MSI over the years, including my old x670e Carbon, and it always went well. Either repaired properly or usually they just sent me a new one. They really won me over back during the 1722 17.3" laptop days with parts and repair accessibility. Untill they, PERSONALLY ( IE bombarding me with anecdotal examples means nothing since my anecdotal evidence says otherwise), give me a reason to not deal with them, they will always be on my top 3 list for consideration. They still have the best mass commercial market laptop BIOS on the market and to a certain point, they treat their laptop BIOS like their desktop BIOS and I like that.

Have you seen any worse? Has to ve within top 10 on the melt scale. Asus denies replacement for $4,000 ROG Matrix RTX 5090 claiming misaligned power connector is part of original design Hideo Kojima warns AI is making games and art “no longer special” in self-interview

MSI finished my RMA and got the FedEx package today. To my complete shock, they gave me a brand new unit and the new ATX 3.1 version. Honestly a great RMA experience with MSI.

Came across an inexpensive Lenovo Think E14 gen5 16gb, as new + "give away" price. Low specs AMD and not the 100% rgb display, but still impressed with what it delivers, Will fit all needs for travel \ basic photo editing \ office tasks \ internet browsing-music-videos. Good build quality, 2x SSD slots. Low weight, great keyboard feel. Silent and runnig cool. Good battery time. Excellent 1st impressions during some days of use. Was 1st personal setup & use of win 11, used it for a short time without o&o shutup + Firefox without ublock ...madre de dios !! But after activating the remedies it became quite supportable. Will keep 11 for a while to gather some experience (= how to disable a ton of trash), but 10 LTSC is planned. An initial (very positive) test of Thinpads here, before eventually some day getting a more top of the line model.

Hey everyone, after 15 years I was finally able to get my hands on a M17x R2 which I am planning to use for CRT Emudriver. The original specs are i7-940xm, Dual 5870m, 8GB ram, with the 240W adapter. The laptop is somehow in like-new condition inside and outside. I purchased a green 8970m 4GB (MSI?) and was able to install it successfully, got no issues with POST and can install all the drivers needed just fine, however, the laptop turns itself off after doing anything GPU related (Temps too high). I managed to figure out the main issue which looks to be the X-Bracket from the 8970m doesnt make good contact with the heatsink because it has taller screw's mounts compared to the 5870m. I didnt reuse the 5870m's x-bracket since it look like it doesnt fit properly on the 8970m, however, I am reusing the 5870m heatsink with no changes other than newer thermal pads and paste. Does anyone know the best way to make the contact between the die and heatsink better? Finally, I have some issues with getting the fans to run using HWInfo. I set a custom profile and/or manually set them to max, it works for a few seconds but then the fans return to idle. Is there a specific version (portable vs exe) or settings that I need to set in HwInfo for it to work properly or maybe is something specific to Greens 8970m? Should I flash it using @Raidriar vbios? Thanks and hope you all had a great Christmas!

If the Unify is a 2-DIMMer like the Unify-X of the past you probably should, even though it is an MSI. It probably won't match an Apex, but I think it would still be better than a 4-DIMM option. One of the best things (other than the BIOS) about the Apex is the DIMM.2 feature. I really like the convenience of being able to access all of the M.2 slots that I am willing to use without having to remove the GPU. (I will not use the M.2 slots that castrate the GPU bandwidth to X8 under any circumstances.) It is unfortunate that most motherboards made for Intel and AMD are still sucky 4-DIMM garbage. It should be an exception and 4-DIMM boards should be limited to a few isolated creator-focused options where maxing out RAM capacity is more important than performance. It's comical that some people still view that as a future "upgrade" path, but understandable to the extent that the average gamerboy is somewhat fightened about entering the BIOS to apply an XMP/EXPO profile. On another note... my God, how did so many people get so stupid so suddenly... rampant idiocy is the new normal where technology is concerned.

I have an Avell (Brazilian company) Storm 580 with an Ultra 9 275HX and an RTX 5080, which is exactly the same as the Medion Erazer Beast 16 with the American Megatrends BIOS. Did the BIOS update for the XMG Neo 16 go smoothly? Could you tell me about your experience? Furthermore, I can't access the XMG driver portal...

I posted on this back on the 19th but only briefly.... The fact he picked a 4 dimmer (Asus Maximus) over a 2 dimmer (MSI Unify) because of scratches/aesthetics just left me shaking my head but he is only running G.Skill TridentZ CUDIMMS 8400 sticks and the Maximus should do 8800 no problem.... Jay: "The aesthetics I don't really care about" (Holding the Maximus) Also Jay: "I'm bothered by it because it has scratches" (Holding the Unify) At worst, it's something new and fun to learn the ins and outs of platform wise. That's my take along with seeing how it does in my favorite games. Once we moved away from monolithic designs, things took a turn for the worse in regards to what WE want in CPUs at least. ----------------------------------------------- Some more testing with the 265k and Strix Z890 and best I can do is stabilize on this 265k at 8400 is now but anything past that is near error out in G2 and at 8600 it artifacts green and locks up as soon as it tries to load Windows. That is pushing SA/VDD2 up and down even to SA@1.35 and VDD2@1.45. Not sure how far I want to go past that in the hopes of breaking past 8400. Just not a great IMC on this chip. Of course in G4 the MB can run up to 8667 before giving up the ghost. On the other hand, the combo was less than $400 for both so.......yeah. I could just tighten everything up at 8400 and still extract the bulk of the performance I would get a 8600/8800 (maybe more with the tighter timings) and then focus on OC potential next which was the plan anyhow. SA/NGU voltages did nothing to change the situation. I'll really need another 265k or 285k to bounce off of to get a clearer picture. Still tempted to re-order a Unify at the least....

How did you cool the RTX 5070 Ti graphics card? And which company manufactured the card?

It will be interesting to hear what his conclusions are after 30 days. I can't say that I like either one now. I can identify things that I dislike about both brands, but I try not to dwell on those things because it can get pretty depressing when you begin compiling a list of the things that suck.

It always has to be done specifically for the respective card. That's no problem, there is a desktop card that you can choose and that fits well. The RTX5070 Ti and RTX 5080 are quite suitable. The RTX5070Ti is the best choice and offers a good compromise between gaming and power consumption!

It depends on the cooling! Water cooling is quicker to implement. A vapor chamber must be well made.

Correct, DP_D is the standard (zbook 17/15 g3 has it on DP_C as well). Yes, you want the 6VCJW one Look at pictures when buying, it's the only one with a white "3D" sticker on it. All the other cables won't work.

and you don't need the two gpu fans ? right ?

what about GPU cooling system ?

2026 maybe a great year @Developer79

Understatement of the year....memory is stupidly expensive and continuing to climb. Anyone caught up knowing of the ramapocalypse and didn't suck it up and spend a bit more the last month or so is really going to feel it in 2026 and prices now might look like a bargin next year till this sorts itself out. Same may happen for SSDs too as next year progresses.

This is my desktop project showing how the desktop graphics card is installed in the P870xx! Here's a photo showing the MXM adapter board and power board in the 2.5 hard drive bay.

Thanks. Yes every of my MXM cards are DP_D, it's the standard to have eDP for DP_D (except for HP ZBook G1/G2?) So I need the 06VCJW cable then? For any eDP screens (1080p to 4K)?

That's actually a 40 pin edp cable that is only for the RGB lcd (the connector isn't a standard iPEX that plugs into a 4K lcd for example). I made a post about the difference in the cables, see here : You want the "3D" cable that is standard 40 pin 4 lane edp that was made originally for the 120hz 1080p screen option. Keep in mind that using an eDP lcd will force the MXM card to output directly to the internal LCD, located on DP_D of the MXM connector. There is no mux for the iGPU. That means that if you are testng vbioses or cards that don't have eDP/DP on DP_D you'll get a black screen, external HDMI and even VGA should work all the time. EDIT : that's assuming you wan't to upgrade the lcd to a modern 40 pin eDP IPS lcd (1080p >60hz or resolution >1080p). Upgrading to 4K has been done by a few members of the forum, look up @TheQuentincc

Well turns out there is a wrinkle on part of the server :/ Gigabyte did not enable bifurcation on the motherboard, it can be enabled with a BIOS mod just really didnt want to do that sort of thing. The Sage has it enabled by default and works on my Precision Towers so I fully expected it to be commonplace on this one. I'll look at the guide in a bit and toss a coin for looking for the hardware programmer I have somewhere. tl;dr the 4xNVME PCIE adapter is only showing 1 drive from the 4. Otherwise Unraid just booted right up, reallocated the array of drives and the cache on its own, didnt even have to point anything anywhere. See's the 80 threads available to it now with no issues. Just been cleaning up what ever I was doing at the time, server is nice and cool, and more importantly more than quiet enough to be placed in the second floor living room (hybrid office kind of setup). Overtime I do plan to replace the older 4/6TB drives there are still present in the array, they are getting looooong in the tooth so if I do anything with this system that will likely be the first step. drives on the right are 12TB each but 2 of them are being used for parity, so it doesnt add much to the "useable" pool of storage. Onto the next project for now :) Decided to go with the server build first to get my confidence back, its been some time since I built something outside of my wheel house. Damn near thought I had some crap karma for a minute there because the server wouldnt post when I tested the motherboard. Turns out, its not guaranteed that it will default to a GPU for video out since they have a chipset video output via the VGA port on the I/O. Once that was squared, then realized, sadly, one of the sticks of RAM was bad :( Anyone got 2933Mhz/3200Mhz 32GB DDR4 ECC laying around? Damned things are stupid expensive now :(

maybe the guy who sold you the laptop left both cable plugged but anyway, there's only ONE plug on the back of the screen (LVDS or EDP) so the other video cable was left unplugged in the back of the screen lid.

Merry Christmas my friends! I hope you're all having an awesome day today! I know I am! After yet another grueling few weeks of really busy devleopment, I'm finally on a one week vacation. I got caught up on MANY pages worth of posts today, so now I'm up to speed on all the threads I follow. That was very time consuming. Thank goodness for my super long attention span and hyperfocus abilities. I got a second GPU installed in my desktop (RTX 3080 from brother Fox), and this system slaps! Paired with Lossless Scaling, I can now render any game I have at 300 fps for the foreseeable future. I love this return of multi GPU gaming rigs brought about by this awesome software.

I unistalled everything, even reinistalled windows. I don't get errors I just can't turn on the wifi not with the new AX210 card and now also not with the old n2230 one. The thing is that everything shows in the device manager as it should; it properly detects the new card as AX210 160MHz.