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Intel's Samsung trashphone moment.... Intel BOT Optimization Tool Uses Vectorization, Raises Benchmark Fairness Questions Better. Last week OF THE HOLIDAY with full Calima and bad lung capacity. Now back home. 5C and icecold wind. And it continue....☹️ Edit. 1.7C now and it feels like 1.9 minus showed by the weathercast. But thanks bro @Mr. Fox. Appreciate your consideration 🙂 Now the weather is great outside Africa. 23-25C in the days. I ordered the holiday for the wrong week (Worst Weather in years). We wanted to visit our Danish friends when they was there. The problem was to get different time for the flight from where I live. Hence we travelled 1-2 weeks before we wanted to see them. Hence fiasko for the first 1.5 weeks (Worst Weather in years here down in Canary). If we ordered the flight to go from Oslo (500km away) we would need to stay in trashy Oslo 2 more days. When we travelled from Trondheim (home) it was the last chance to avoid that. Now we have paid the full price because Norways is a small country that prefer profits over what people want/prefer.

Brother @Papusan I hope the weather has improved so you can enjoy your vacation. How are things going?

Hi, thanks to everyone who have contributed with their personal upgrade experiences. I newly signed up here just to share mine. Your posts encouraged me to try a small upgrade over the K1000M card that was in my 8570w laptop. I bought a M1000M off eBay, mainly because it wasn't too pricey (20 USD). Not a huge loss if it didn't work, right! The card was pulled from a Dell laptop with vbios version 82.07.8F.00.1A. After turning the computer on, all the pixels on the screen turned white before slowly fading. The display is the 1920x1080 one with the LVDS connector. I managed to see if the DP output worked by using a Linux Mint LiveCD. I have Linux (Gentoo) installed on that machine, so I was able to get to the console on the external display. I then decided to download and try flashing vbios version 82.07.8D.00.15 (https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/239513/239513) onto the card with the linux version of nvflash... and it worked!!! I am happy! Thanks everyone! 😁 Hope this helps others who want to try this little upgrade over the original card.

There is no indication that we are getting such models this year. Nothing has appeared in regulatory databases. Intel didn’t release “business/pro” versions of the HX CPUs for this generation.

Very cool. This makes me wonder if Coreboot could boot this chip too. I still have the MSI Pro Z690-A that supports Dashero. Might try hacking support in once summer hits and things calm down at work. Why Intel did not make a 10 P-core 12th Gen chip and 12 P-core 13th+ Gen chip is beyond me. Its not like 10850 and 10900K were poor sellers so far as I remember. Their team even binned that set of Golden Samples for LTT. It really shows just how much the company has shifted in the past few years. I guess Sapphire Rapids could have been considered a viable alternative to this but then you have to deal with mesh binning and the extra latency from registered memory.

Kryptonfly over at overclock.net did this BIOS mod using AI. Imagine that, AI did something useful for a change LMAO. He managed to do the BIOS edits using Claude which is just incredible and crazy. It's still a work in progress, getting into the BIOS menu is only possible on first boot, unless you CPU swap/re-insert 273PQE. This will hopefully be solved soon as it's making tuning/testing things a pain as you get one shot and if it breaks the boot, you cannot get back in until you do the process over again. I'm thinking about just getting a heavy metal pot and resting on the CPU while testing. I think that might work and would make testing much faster. So far I've only tested Battlefield 6, and it works beautifully. All cores boost properly to 5.4Ghz locked which is more than adequate for this chip. Speaking of boost, right now single core boost to 5.9Ghz is not working, but that might just be me needing to change a bios option. Will keep testing. I got a little heavy handed on first boot and wanted to change everything, and it got fussy at either C-States or XMP, my guess is XMP. It might be one of those FSP-M issues where I can only use manual tuning for memory, XMP might be a no fly zone. As long as I can tune memory, this chip will be awesome. So far I've booted 5600 Jedec 2x32gb, which is nicely above the 4800 I was locked to on my Industrial W680 board. Guess I can send that back lmao. Will report further findings as I figure them out. For now though, am loving this chip on Z790.

Beautiful. Who ended up doing the BIOS mod for you? Did they explain what they had to do in order for it to work? Have you encountered any software or game issues? Once in a great while I find a game or a driver pitches a fit about my EPYC 4585PX CPU not being "supported" LOL. In ever way it is just a better 9950X3D silicon sample except for its name. Thankfully that is very seldom. On one hand, it is super cool that we can sometimes bypass stupid roadblocks that bastards at Intel, AMD and NVIDIA throw in our path. On the other hand, their contempt for the people that keep their lights on and their bank accounts in the black defies logic and speaks to how exceeding corrupt all of them are. The technology space is one of the few industries where companies can get away with treating customers like $hit and stay solvent.

Hello, I just wanted to share a tip, since I ran into this exact problem. Not all VBIOSes support LVDS. On my Dell M2200, I needed to flash a different VBIOS. In fact, none of the VBIOSes on Powertechup with a file size of 180KB support LVDS. So they can only be used with Optimus. I tried them all. All the ones that are 182KB are the right ones for LVDS displays. See the screenshot for an example. Studio drivers can be installed directly; no modifications are necessary.

Is the next generation of Dell Precision 9 professional series laptops coming soon?

Sometimes this is why I love this hobby. O it's no supposed to work Intel? Lets see about that.

That's really interesting to hear, so how is the licensing situation now?

first thing the SD25TB5 is brand new model and should still be under dell's warranty if its defected. second, the spesific unit you got has a builtin KVM (which sounds like your stuck on one) and other network management features, i deliberately didn't get that spesific model because of the KVM and extra network and firmware nonsense. make sure you installed the latest firmware for the doc, if that doesn't change much try validating the doc power supply by swapping it with the one from the laptop (that should be 280W vs your doc 300W they will interchange just fine) and see if you still stuck in low power mode which the smart pin could cause if its faulty or cant make contact it will default to lower power mode crippling everything until power is restored. plug your doc power supply to your laptop and turn it on then watch post screen for low power detected during boot.

I don't have experience with this system, but what you describe here is the exact behavior from the Precision 7770 and 7780. If the built-in display supports VRR but not full GSYNC, then you can only use VRR with the iGPU driving the panel.

I acquired a Dell Pro Max 16 Plus as an impulse purchase and I'm debating whether that was a mistake or not. Unfortunately, I did a clean install of Windows before doing much check out of the factory configuration. For those running the factory install of Windows, I'm trying to determine: Whether the internal display (4K OLED) supports VRR when the dGPU is driving it because I only see VRR as supported when using the iGPU Whether "Dolby Atmos for Speakers" is a selectable spatial sound option for the Cirrus Logic XU sound device Any help is appreciated.

How does it look for you now? 10Gb backbone to my upstairs and downstairs switches and 2.5Gb for end clients, up stairs when I want I can give my computer and my wife's 10Gb too. The wifi does about 2.4Gb with a wifi 7 2x2 device.

I think lab grown meat is the next step to us actually fixing the planet for the long term. As the population grows you convert the land for cattle to crops, then if we don't blow ourselves up and keep developing and the population starts to shrink we can put land back to it's actual natural state (forest and the like). It needs to be regulated streniously because companies will be companies and try and cut corners etc.

Nope, running stock files. I was running unlocked A15, but downgraded to A11 through Dell's site. I went with A11 only because that's the other option listed in your thread for the unlocked bios. After that I had to reinstall the driver for the 680M, but tried stock Nvidia driver and it worked. Prior it would fail, saying incompatible. I should've just read the README file sooner. That would've saved me a ton of work. Tearing these screens apart sucks. I'm still having issues getting 3D to actually work, however it is definitely software related now, not hardware. Setup Wizard starts but fails with message stating "Failed to create D3D Device1". I'm getting close, I think.

I snagged a great deal on a G.SKILL 8400 48GB kit and another Supercool direct touch memory cooler for $435 shipped. I popped the sticks in place of the Kingbank 8400 48GB kit running in the B850MPOWER and it booted right up and runs flawlessly. I think I am going to order a cheap 360MM radiator on Amazon and use my IceMan AM5 direct die block and run a custom loop instead of the Lian Li AIO on my SFF monster. I've got a spare Alphacool D5 pump and res that I am confident will fit between the GPU and front panel fans. Running a custom loop in such a small chassis is going to be pretty sweet. https://www.overclock.net/threads/bunch-of-48gb-ddr5-kits-accessories.1819174/?post_id=29575067#post-29575067 Everyone have a pleasant holiday weekend. Happy Easter.

So you are using A11 unlocked? If you are using oem cards you can also just use the stock bios files

I bought a cheap GTX 1070 to try with my 8570w, but it only works via DisplayPort to an external screen. From the posts, I think we have the same problem. The GPU emits an eDP signal. I could also buy screen Innolux N156HHE-GA1 Rev. C3 which has a 30-pin connector and receives an eDP signal, but I suppose a simple 40-pin converter from the motherboard to the 30-pin of this screen isn't enough because the pins that go through the motherboard aren't in the correct place for EDP communication, and the wires have to be externally adjusted to the way the screen receives them. Am I correct in what I'm saying? Is this the adaptation I need, or i can buy the screen and it would work just with a 30 to 40 pin adapter? There are also DisplayPort to LVDS converters, but they are large pieces...

Hi SuperMG, Based on my experience with the M4800 and, similarly, the M6800, there is a BIOS bug where the TDP and power settings can be edited in NVRAM but are not applied. You can “work around” this by putting the laptop into sleep mode after startup and then waking it up again. Then overclocking works on all cores, and the TDP values are applied correctly. The only important thing is that the battery is fully charged; if not, it won’t work. This must be done again with every reboot.

lol "We just hope that the business customers Microsoft’s going after \ aren’t reading the full Copilot terms of use" Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk. https://www.androidauthority.com/copilot-entertainment-only-3654882/

Finally... holy crap. So long story short, unlocked bios A15+ causes 3D compatability issues. Maybe its known, but I read the README text file and saw they changed the device id so that 780m-980m work natively or something, that's why Nvidia drivers wouldn't download straight from their site for this 680M. Even though its the factory card. What a pain, I've been fighting with this for days for that haha. But hey, figured it out. 3D is working and I have a 2nd 3D 120hz screen for my son's laptop.

I think they have had that PSU for a while but super expensive and hard to find. I remember seeing it on their web site but it was never in stock. I do not remember seeing it for sale in retail channels, only the Platinum 1600W. That is a sweet upgrade and well worth the return shipping cost. I suspect EK is trying to pump up business, but honestly... water cooling is the only good solution for anything more than 8C/16T processors (both Intel and AMD) and the best solution for any desktop that isn't a SFF hotbox with no room for something better. Trying to air cool any overclocked high end CPU with 8 or more cores/threads with air or a cheap AIO is going to produce a lackluster result. So, to me they are simply stating the obvious, not something new, specific or unique to the 9950X3D2.