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Its showing around 120W max in HWinfo after running around doing various things. Of that I think being in a group running vault farming has been the most taxing so far this season. Of course its probably hitting 55W TDP on the CPU, so in full performance mode GPU utilization should go higher. Sometimes on these 90F+ ambient temp days I also ran it at 5/10 with framerate capped at 60 just simply to keep the palm rest from warming up too much. We dont have AC in the lounge room at work. Smaller and lighter is nice for travel. The Clevo PE60 I still own is a great example of that and probably the reason I have not bothered selling it yet. In most cases it was actually a better WoW machine than the Arrow Lake Hydroc G2 as well, just simply because it gets significantly better memory latency with the 14900HX on die memory controller. I have considered just selling the others and just using the PE60 because it works pretty close to the same level for WoW as I use the Raider A18.

Idling, no. The fan stays off. When it's working, the fan runs as expected.

i too saw posts here talking about that cicichen-cooler heatsink and man.... the money- value ratio is top..... to be honest more money u spent on the notebook less ull get if u sell it. my clevo p870km with rtx 3080 + 32gb ram + i7 9700k is woth less then 1000€... considering i payd 850€for the vga and for a cooler people asked like 400-600€ .... dont waste much money on this old laptops.... newer one are double the performanche with newer cpus... for example one i7 14 series is like 3 or more time powerfull then 9700k.... and consume max 65 watt... also a 5070ti mobile is 30% faster then 3080 mobile.... u can get a 14 gen cpu with 5070ti second hand for 1000 -1200€max...

I found P5000 for ~198USD, the seller has posted GPU-Z and dxdiag screenshots that look very legit and iam considering it, does it run very hot? i would rather have slightly slower but cooler laptop, i will propably buy it, test it and return it if its has a defect or something (Allegro gives you 48hrs to do so)

Glad you got it sorted out! Windows updates can be pretty mysterious sometimes, especially when there’s no clear indication which change actually fixed the problem. At least it’s good to know the issue was software-related and not a hardware fault.

I had some trouble too, with my P5000. I was trying to future-proof it as much as I could, similar to when I bought this machine new, so I wasn't really interested in anything else. I ended up resorting to eBay, which is not known for the sellers' reliability, and sure enough, the first one was DOA / already bricked. I gathered enough data and posted it here to confirm, which the community did, sent it back for an eBay-forced refund, and roasted their feedback. Then I got another one, also from eBay after some recovery time from the frustration, 'cause there still wasn't much else, and that one worked. I'm not a gamer, so I can't comment on that. In addition to still being my daily driver, I occasionally use it for live FHD video production, so that's mostly what my upgrade was for: a hardware video encoder that Ubuntu Studio hasn't dropped support for.

Noooo, thats not good news. was yours a 980M?? Were all "hot" chips cooled ok? the copper plate is flat (obviously) whereas the aluminium 8770W one has recesses to cater for different heights. (i'm looking at full copper but got to wait until my slide table turns up so i can convert my drillpress into a milling machine arrives, so its the 8770W sink until then) i assume the GPU core wasnt contacting the sink as if i recall VRAM is a tiny bit higher off the PCB (i could be wrong, i used the thicker blue heat pads which squish a bit more, although i may change to upsiren paste next) this is the issue i found when creating an "undercooler plate" for the 980M VRAM on the other (under)side of the PCB that sit next to Mobo and dont get cooled enough. was your card a "low mileage" one? might have been slowly dying and the mod pushed it over the edge. However we learn and upgrade. Will share the underplate on here shortly once i get a chance to take a pic this weekend (if it works i'll convert into a printable template).

Acquired a roughed-up Kyocera KYF42 from a junk shop in Tokyo a few months ago (the last thing I really acquired) and it's been a fun device to use from time-to-time, especially for photography alongside my Canon 1200D.

Feels interesting to log back in after a couple of years (life circumstances) only to be acquiring one of these machines from a friend within the next week or so (13950HX with 32gb of ram and a 512gb nvme), but due to a parts machine from his work we were somehow able to cannibalize a 7770 and get the 3080ti from it working.. which surprised me a bit. I know the thermals won't be the greatest thing on earth but at this point, my m15 R7's defective heatsink is reaching its limit and I'm grateful for the offer I got. Just hope this is a reliable machine until I start my new job soon and when I'm back on my feet.

I read about people installing 128GB of ram on this machine using 2x64GB sticks?

Thanks for the heads up! I just got this laptop and will look into it.

656W on load at 4.6Ghz 😅 now I know why the breaker trips when my wife uses the microwave in the kitchen and I'm benchmarking LOL

Thanks for the reply, and yes i did look in almost everything M6800/M6700/M4800 related on the forum, just wanted to be completely sure and start thread of my own journey. Iam fine using linux and the flashing tool, although i did order CH341A with 1.8V adapter in case i need to do some die flashing. I found an offer for P3000 for ~95USD, should i buy that and just go with it? i had a hard time finding any P4000 or RTX 3000's in decent prices (looked on 1688, aliexpress and some Polish sites) I plan to do some light gaming with this beast of an laptop, mostly indie games, i recently bought the new Steam Controller and plan on putting Bazzite on the M6800, does anyone have some experience running it on these ancient platforms?

I dont know If I am doing something wrong again got dell precision 7670 with Intel Core i7-12850HX NVIDIA RTX A3000 12GB 32gb ram temps jumping to 100c so it was throttling during cinebench r23 to 2,6ghz or 2,3ghz so it seems like I need too repaste the cpu put Honeywell PTM7950 still throttling to 2,6ghz and 100c even in 3dmark timespy throttles to 2ghz later on during benchmark I was very careful with screwing the heatsink in numbered order doing half rotations every screw till everything was screwed all the way. this TPM worked well on other laptops so I dunno if I am doing something wrong, or getting unlucky with those laptops or what on the other hand this is getting average scores on 3dmark/cinebench r23 so seems just unlucky?

Technically, it comes down to what resolution and detail levels you want to run and expected fps and then apply DLSS5 over it. If you're running 1080p medium you can drastically adjust down to even a 5060 paired with a 5050. If you're wanting to run 4k ultra the same rules apply and depending on game, a 5090 paired with a 5070ti would be optimal, but looking at that WoW video, it is paired with a 5070 and handling it ok too. So far, it looks like when paired properly, you achieve close to your original fps with DLSS5 enabled using a second card to handle DLSS5 only. DLSS5 is known to up the power draw overall (there have been some reports of burning cards trying to run DLSS5 on the same GPU) but what else is new? But if you're off rendering DLSS5 that would, in the case of the 5090 at least, leave that extra headroom for a standard 600w card to extract maximum performance and then have your lesser card render DLSS5 only. I haven't come across someone running dual monitoring or a HWinfo log to see how much is actually pulled. The beautiful thing is with the current wrapper, even 9070xt supports DLSS5. As always, it will trip anti cheats so you either have to play single player games only or as Jansn did, pass through the output externally for processing and display. How is GPU utilization overall running QHD with the 5090m and 9955HX3D? So many think WoW could run on a tin can and it definitely does not. So many times zipping around in WoW at 4k ultra RT enabled and I routinely see the 5090 hitting 90%+ utilization which lets me know a 5080, like the 9070xt, would be sitting capped out more often than not at lower fps. I even see some utilization spikes into the 80s even in the city with the 9800X3D tuned up. Since those initial runs I posted for your comparison to your monster MSI with the same CPU, I haven't gotten back to the G16 yet but I'll get back over there for more tuning and gaming sessions. I have 6 days to return it, but I'm definitely keeping it for several reasons. First and foremost is how quiet it runs and the only way I can get it to get the fans going is to put it under meaningful stress. Two, I'm not hating the smaller PSU and much smaller and lighter chassis. It reminds me of the Clevo NH55 12900k + 3070ti in size and weight. I really like the 240hz display. It isn't as bright and in your face as the Alienware, but much more balanced. It is flat out beating my Alienware with the 275HX in gaming in WoW and especially in Fallout 76 in my test spots. Lastly, cost.

Nice! It might be a decade old, but still a decent machine, even by modern standards. You might look at these posts if you haven't already: Not the complete story, but they have links to other posts, and so on. Not a lot, as I remember. It wasn't enough to impair the old GPU in case you give up and go back to it. But it *was* necessary because some of the taller parts are in different places that don't clear. The worst part for me was the cleanup: getting the copper dust off, and out of the soft pads. Like I said in one of those posts, know which direction your cutoff wheel is going, so most of it goes away and doesn't get jammed in. Very likely yes. And you'll need a rather old version of Linux to do it. You don't have to install that - it'll run just fine from a USB flash drive, and once it's done and working you can wipe/reformat that USB drive and use it for something else. See another one of those posts for details.

No way my 4090 150W MXM card can do 175W+ easily on my Clevo? But I would get limited by the power resistors (R006)... And power limiting could work too... Back then we used the bugged Nvidia drivers to power limit our mobile GPUs.

Ada and Blackwell should both work. You may just need to add logic to detect the device name properly.

Hello. Can this work for RTX Ada Lovelace mobile cards? Because I found this: https://github.com/timmyy123/nvidia-power-control

https://github.com/LevinAi-arch/rtx-5070ti-laptop-160w-power-limit/releases/tag/v1.8.0 Interesting repo. Just modified a few lines of code to make it work with the RTX PRO.

Actually, the third fan you mentioned is mainly used for internal cooling, including the heatsink surface, memory modules, 48V regulator, and SSDs. This means the third fan draws air in through the ventilation grille underneath the palm rest.

OH MYYY Daang, thanks for the knowledge sharing mate, i will try to test as you suggest. I played for example GOW2 for a long moment and there was no issue (53° max), where my confusion. Thanks again for your answer!

Yeah we have been talking about this a bit in discord. I have not tried it myself and would probably want to do so on a different drive with a clean install. Not sure its really worth the time though as I usually only run balanced mode which is capped at 150W in crossload which running WoW it does not even reach at 10/10 graphics (no RT). I do like the 5090 performance over the 4070m, but I am guessing as far as WoW goes, anything 4080m+, 5070ti-m+ is probably enough to be smooth for what I enjoy at 1600p/1440p. I have even thought about putting some time into trying to tune the X370 more to see if it would be close enough to the Raider A18 in performance to be enjoyable.

I work in some medium size corpo and we are doing some big tech upgrade, i managed to get M6800(i7-4810MQ/32GB/K3100M/LVDS) for ~14USD i even already upgraded the wifi chip from Intel 6300 to Intel AC-7260. I want to replace the GPU with something better, looking at some of the older posts i saw that Quadro P4000 is a decent option, question is, how much modifications to the cooler/mount do i need to for it to fit and do i need to flash the vbios using some external tools (CH341A), or maybe someone here has some better option for an upgrade

Yes that works. I got them to work on P775TM1. VBIOS should be in UEFI and the DP_D should be there.