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You can buy and install a Dell m5000m graphics card, and you won’t have to mess around with the video BIOS or modify the cooling system. If you want, you can replace the fans with higher-performance ones from the Alienware m14x R2, but some modifications will be required.

Tech executives are suffering from "AI psychosis," says Box CEO Your CEO is vibe-coding prototypes and calling it an AI strategy TL;DR: A growing backlash against the forced adoption of AI is building across the industry, but enterprise executives remain as bullish as ever on the LLM-driven future. According to at least one prominent tech leader, that enthusiasm may signal how out of touch those at the top have become.

You use them in defualt hybrid mode or switched them to direct? With what screens resolution? Do you diplay anything with rtx on external display? At both machines I posess screen connected with DP lose identity after wake up (and switches from 2k to fhd) Both computers disconnect docking station after attempt do display anything heavy weight (eg. any modern game) on external screen.

hi, first im sorry for the dead laptop. let's see what u can tell about the problem. 1) no light means no ec communication, or short circuit in the main 19volt rail. 2) burn smell: that'0s bad..... a overheated card do not smell that bad... they smell bad when they reach amost the burning temperature point. with these in mind, do you have a multimeter in your house ? does the psu light stay on when connecting them or the psu light goes off ? test with only one charger without the dual adapter.

Well, I’ve started diving into a small project to completely refurbish a GT60 that I repaired some time ago and that was honestly in terrible condition. It’s an Ivy Bridge 16F3 model, currently equipped with an i7-3920XM / 32 GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 at 1866 MHz / GTX 1060 6 GB / 2x500 GB mSATA SSDs plus an additional 500 GB SATA SSD. I’m planning to try either a Quadro A4000 or A3000 in it depending on my budget. The first issue will obviously be the use of a custom heatsink. I asked Chichen to join the project and he’s really into it, so he’s currently studying a possible solution. While we’re at it, we’re also going to improve the cooling system for the i7-3920XM to try and achieve a decent overclock on it. I also ordered a higher-quality TN panel to replace the stock LG display, which had a few dark spots. I chose a B156HW01 V7, which is one of the best 40-pin LVDS panels available. I don’t know if better options exist, or even whether LVDS/eDP converters would properly work to get an IPS panel, so I’d rather stick with a plug-and-play solution. The laptop will use a 240W power supply and is also running a custom unlocked BIOS and custom EC firmware by Svet from MSI. So now we’ll see whether a Quadro A4000 can perform better than RTX 4060 or 4070 mods. I just need to find the money to fund one by selling a few things first!

I think the GPU portion is software-limited. From what I remember in the leaked promotional materials, the PM16P has a 170 W system TDP, while the PM18P has a 200 W system TDP. In my use case, the GPU does not get very hot, but it still stays around 145–150 W under sustained workloads. As you mentioned, the 18-inch model can stay at 175 W for a longer period. So my guess is that the firmware dynamically manages the power split between the GPU and CPU based on the hard-coded system TDP limit.

Today I received another PM16P without the touchscreen option (no quick access bottom door). To my surprise, the top case color is not exactly the same as my other one; one looks slightly off. Another difference is that the surface finish also feels different (for all surfaces, including top case, bottom case, and palmrest): one feels more textured, while the other feels smoother. I’m not sure why this is the case. Maybe it is due to differences in production batches or manufacturing locations. The touchscreen model was made in China, while the new non-touchscreen one was made in Vietnam.

Hi all, was recommended to make a post here. Apparently there might be some old members from NBR which used to discuss about these machines many years ago? I’m looking to hear from those who have installed a GTX 970 or 980 into one of these fine M15X rigs in the past. If so what was the process of getting everything working nicely? From doing some research apparently you need to do a copper shim mod, installation of a modded gpu driver alongside a vbios mod to stop the card drawing too much power? I think it’s around 80 - 90 watts the card should be pulling once setup to help with longevity. I will also be installing some upgraded fans which provide better CFM (used oem dell fans which should be a drop in upgrade into the original fan enclosure) this is mainly to help with thermals even if it’s a couple degrees. I plan on installing a i7 940XM and will also be doing some overclocking. I do have a genuine dell 240w charger to help with these upgrades which I plan on purchasing in a couple days. Any help regarding the gpus / or unmentioned mods & upgrades would be very much appreciated! Thank you 👍🏼

So... I downloaded the (previously) unlisted BIOS for the EON17-X (X170KM) from ORIGIN PC's website, and though it is supposed to be the exact same BIOS on my machine, I decided to flash the download onto my PC (just in case the BIOS on my computer had been modified or corrupted somehow), which I did under the EFI shell to avoid any potential complications from Windows processes running in the background. Of course, everything went smoothly, but as I said, it's supposed to be the same BIOS. And it's still the same as above. The logs indicate the system tried to download the new secure boot certificates, and it's the exact same status: I'm exactly where I was.

Radeon cards are better for frame gen. Lossless Scaling likes them more due to Radeon's higher floating point compute power vs their GeForce equivalents at all performance tiers, which is very important for frame gen performance. This also explains why Radeon cards perform significantly better with Minecraft shaders vs their GeForce equivalents. Both tasks are dependent on floating point performance. So the best setup for dual GPU in games is Radeon + Radeon if your games favor AMD GPUs, or Nvidia + Radeon if your games favor Nvidia GPUs. In either case, the optimal frame gen GPU is going to be a Radeon GPU.

Only thing 100% reliable about technology....it will eventually fail. Replacing PHC is not a super easy job....but should be doable. I have replaced IC's with hotair at home.

Interesting I’d say the heatsink isn’t quite as capable on the 16 it’s a slightly shrunken version of the heatsink/ fans on 18 inch chassis so maybe thermal limited? I never really looked that hard at GPU thermals or knew where NVIDIA sets the limits, just noted they generally way cooler than Intel CPUs that always push 100 degrees! My workload for testing also likely fluctuated load a bit as it was rendering either a large scene that would get split up into tiles or animation frames which means some small drops from 100% load as it loads the next bit of scene/ frame But I think it’s still a realistic real world GPU compute task, I see similar for GPU accelerated simulation too it’s never a perfect 100% load constantly. i also observed slightly lower sustained CPU power on the pro max 16 plus, not a huge real world performance difference in performance but ~ 5W less sustained power IIRC. This was all early days before we put the systems on our domain, can’t run any tools that aren’t on our allowed software list now!

Thanks for the nice write up bro Elektro🙂 Edit... plant based way of eating and limiting meat to 1-2 a week ### No way I can handle this. 55 years of eating meat in most meals and you see where I go. I try to eat healthier meat. With little or almost zero fat. I never eat/use special sauces, or unhealthy dressings. Mostly pure food of good meat. Sample for on the bread. + here. And of course lots of chicken. + lots of healthy bread. Me eat plants... Hell freeze first. If you play long enough with the fire......

I have a bunch of alts with each profession + engineering (for wormhole toys / etc). I did not really want another 16 incher either, despite Eluktronics offering the Hydroc G2 with 9955HX3D + 5090. This Raider was a higher price as it is being sold for $3299 only at Best Buy (not Newegg, MSI direct or other usual resellers). So far it has been behaving better than the older model. The balanced profile has very good fan noise. It only does sustained 55W CPU + 115W GPU. For higher performance I have a custom profile with all points set to 55% because otherwise the fans just constantly ramp up and down. The RGB controller at some point reverted to the rainbow puke effect on boot, so I ended up having to install Steelseries GG. For a while it was just static red on all zones without any control software which was really nice. This time around I am running W11 Enterprise LTSC IoT which has been great. Sadly the OEM Hynix A-die memory is PMIC locked so no VDD/VDDQ beyond 1.1v. The 5080M has been plenty for WoW at QHD. I would just need to sell the other 5090 laptops as the Raider A18 can replace the function of the Hydroc G2 and Legion 9i G10 both. It is only a loss of battery life which is not a major concern for me.

I ended up adding fishing, mining and enchanting to the wife's toon to, ah, "enhance" her WoW experience. 🤣 She actually likes it and it is a steady stream of mats. I do mining and blacksmithing for the weapons and armor. Alt does jewelcrafting and engineering. I ended up returning the Asus because I just can't do 16" displays. 18"+ and I'd prefer a 20"+ behemoth if possible. It was also very buggy in Asus fashion but that 9955HX3D was beast just like the 7950HX3D in that MSI for WoW and especially Fallout 76. Are you going to keep the MSI Raider? It sounds like it is holding it down and then some. How is the noise overall vs the older X3D/4090? I know those fans were hard to tame vs Intel. I swear that stupid Aorus Extreme WB 5090 was the most unicorn of cards in the US. While not always, the higher voltage cards usually rise to the top all things considered equal. Just like the 5090s, that trickles down to the 5080s especially since you can run the 450w BIOS and give it a nice bit of headroom. Was the original used Zotac opened up / repadded from the original user? I used the NVCPL for years, switched to their new app last year then switched back. Didn't hate it, but it served no purpose for my needs at the time but I'll move to it as ordered by the Galactic Empire.... Crapping on the Vanguard is crapping on the Suprim too lol.... +1 PCIE fuse ~0 no 12vfail fuse (this one is a personal preference of his) -1 MSI locking down schematic leaks (this would be a bad move) -1 buck converter choice (I'm going to assume) I am unsure why the original owner didn't send it in for Warranty repair to MSI directly. It has a 3yr warranty and the warranty transfers...... "There is no best brand. All these brands are screwing up one way or the other...." - Tony. Extreme to suggest lifting your core/memory and transplanting it to another PCB. I wouldn't worry about anything (if even valid) till the warranty is expired and there is a good chance we will all have moved on to 6090's by then.....in theory 🤣 Yeah, very bad lifestyle choices there @Papusan. I'm a lifelong non smoker, so I can't begin to understand the addiction portion, but I've seen every single one of my siblings (all 7 of them), both parents, both granddads, father in law and even my own daughter struggle with kicking the habit or not kicking it at all so I understand. The quickest way to start healing your body and greatly reduce your stroke risk is to go vegan, eliminate added sugar, stop smoking and limit yourself to 1-2 drinks a day. That of course is the macro outlook of the problem and it is easier said than done. Every time you smoke, even vape, that nicotine causes micro aggressions on your vascular system with violent restrictions of your vessels along with a host of other issues. 36 a day? No way to quick cold turkey, but mixing in nicotine gum/patch and timing out your smoking sessions to twice their interval is the best start. Sugar and heavy meat diet raises your triglycerides and overall cholesterol. I'll assume you don't have any diabetic or pre-diabetic conditions. If you do, it is even worse from both sources. To a much lesser extent but in the here and now, coffee/caffeine also has to be monitored and lessened. As someone who struggled with high blood pressure, the quickest way I brought it down was switching primarily to a plant based way of eating and limiting meat to 1-2 a week. I LOVE my meat, but if I keep eating it, no matter what I do or the quality of the source, my blood pressure will slowly creep back up. The worse quality, especially beef and pork, the quicker it will return. I get a bit more leeway if I stick to fish. Your body has been redlining for quite some time. Every step you take to treat it better will be a breath of fresh air to it in so many ways. 💙

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Done! According to the repair shop diagnostics, the faulty component that needs to be replaced is the Platform Controller Hub (PCH) chip. Any idea what this chip is? What is it responsible for, how could it permanently fail? Yeah, should consider getting one in the future. 😊

Thanks for asking bro Fox. And huge thanks. I'm taking it one day at a time. Now I'm trying to reduce my cigar/cigarillo consumption. I may have halved my consumption from around 36. But it's still way too high even with vaping. I have started vaping with low nicotine levels. I'm also trying to reduce or better said change my (food)lifestyle. Eat more healthy food to try lower the blood pressure/cholesterol. It's way above recommended. This on top of medicines I take for it. There is some big changes so I don't know if everything is feasible/doable. It's now 14 days since I had a stroke, so it will take time. The question is whether I can achieve my goals. It's too early to say. But I'll try.... So small steps each day. But it's hard. Very hard to change how you have lived the last +30 years. Big changes at +60 is hard 🙂

How are things going Brother @Papusan? This song is for you, bro. Listen to and read the words.

Absolute rubbish from the dell support. These systems and docks were released well after Dell stopped selling systems with windows 10. We use these for 50+ engineers on pro max plus 16 &18 on windows 11 without issue had some teething problems intially but no complaints for a few months

What a bad joke is that?! We replaced a few older Docks with SD25TB5 for some colleagues and I was able to test one, just to check if displays, network and power supply works. Had no problems with Windows 11 Insider Beta channel (build 26220), but I was just using it for an hour or so. Kept my WD19DC which works OK with my MB18250. On rare occasions I get the boot message that the power supply is not sufficient. Had to unplug, power off the dock and retry. But other than that it works. Might be due to my system not having a dGPU, which needs less power.

That absolutely sucks. Unforgivable. The only end users they are treating right is RTX 6000 owners. Bastards. I wonder how long it will continue to be available from the Micro$lop Store Whores? This also sucks...

Cool, you also have the EON17-X, but I don't see which BIOS you have... maybe your version is different from mine? I'm also running Windows 11 Pro, 25H2. You do have a different GPU (mine is a RTX 3080), and a different CPU (I can't quite see the SKU, but yours is a i7-117XX, whereas I have a i9-11900K), EDIT: you also have less RAM, 64GB, whereas I have 128GB, so it's a different configuration. And by the way, I have been in contact with Origin PC, and it's quite a coincidence that they FINALLY have the corresponding (latest released by Origin PC) BIOS and EC firmware under the EON17-X (X170KM) model. They DIDN'T before, so perhaps my cries for help served some purpose. But in any case, they recommended "reaching out to Eurocom directly to confirm whether a BIOS/UEFI firmware update is available for your laptop and whether it would help resolve this specific Secure Boot certificate update warning", and pointed me to their "support/upgrade" webpage. They sent me to a different company/webpage, which has no solution posted. So, NO HELP AT ALL, really. I don't know why the firmware in my PC is not accepting the new Secure Boot certificates, and I don't know why yours updated without a problem. As I said, maybe you have a different (perhaps older) BIOS, or there's something else in your firmware that makes your system different from mine. At least I see that it shouldn't be a problem in principle with the EON17-X. Could you check your version of the BIOS? The one in my computer is 1.07.08TOPC, which is the latest released by Origin PC.