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U can install a WIFI 7 card (Intel BE200HMW) though. So not sure why you went with WIFI 6. I made the same mistake until I came across a post on this thread of another member successfully installing the Intel BE200HMW and went with it as well. Like panda_zzz mentioned all 4980HQ CPUs currently on the market, adapted for the socket in the M6800, are limited to 2 RAM slots. Previous reports of one guy being able to use 4 RAM slots are unconfirmed and unlikely to be true at this point as no evidence were furnished to show all 4 RAM slots in use. All postings I come across online all points to being limited to 2 RAM slots and sellers that I spoke to all said the same as well. If you want to overclock, the 4930MX has better potential than the 4940MX and is cheaper as well. If you want to try an Nvidia GPU, why not start with the GTX 980M or M5000M? They have better performance and are widely available and price is quite reasonable. Unless of course you have a GTX 880M available on hand, then there's no point getting another one. The P5200 is good but is a power hungry beast and with that produces a lot of heat when running. Depending on the revisions, Rev A & B is about 100W-115W and C & D can go up to 150W. I know as I still have the P5000 (100W) on my M6800 running and it runs pretty hot! The RTX 3000 might be a better bet as it is cooler (80W) and slightly cheaper and gives you ray tracing and more advance features than the P5200. Though in terms of raw power, it lags behind the P5200 and P5000. I will be swapping to the RTX 3000 soon and just need to find the time to take apart the M6800 to do the swap. I am using a LVDS motherboard and screen and using SG btw.

OK, FINALLY I MANAGED A MODIFICATION TO MAKE THIS MODDED DRIVER WORKING WITH THE LASTEST NAHIMIC VERSION! (AT LEAST ON APO3), SOON I AM SHARING MY OWN MODDED DRIVERS WITH @solidus1983 SAME INSTALLER!

hello, here trying to make my own custom nahimic drivers. i am on a MSI GT60 with ALC892, why i need APO3 and not APO4? where i can find the lastest realtek drivers with lastest nahimic APO3 driver? because always i get nahimic not working due to microsoft store automatic update

I always thermal grizzly PTM sheet on the core. No pump out, excellent/even temps, and zero risk. Stock had a PTM pad as well. I’m super happy I was able to fix the memory temps. I figured it’s either a heatsink design issue or bad pads. Glad it was fixable with quality pads.

I think most of the OEMs use Laird thermal pads.

so when eDP display is in the M6800 P5000M/P5200M will work flawless? plug n play(+ .inf mod)

Lol, nothing worse than multiple teardowns trying to fix cooling issues, but it all ended up great and it makes you wonder what thermal pads Asus is using..... What thermal compound are you using on the GPU Core? Nova Lake looks so good. Hopefully they stick to their "late 2026" launch and don't drag it into 2027.

Decided I wanted to repad my RTX 5090 HOF VRAM as the memory temps are atrocious since I got the card. Even with an undervolt and gaming at 500-600w, the memory temps would climb to around 82-84c which is a bit toasty for me. My old TUF ran around 70c on memory temps under load. I for some reason though the pads were 1.5mm and so I ordered some thermal grizzly advanced minus 8 pads. Turns out they were actually 1.0mm (still tried them as they compress decently). They were just too thick and the core wasn't getting good contact and it was hitting 86c lol. Tore the card down again and tried some old 1.0mm I found in my closet collection. These were absolutely shit, worse than the stock pads. Hitting 96c on memory temps with good core temps. Thought I was out of options and was just going to put it all back together with the stock pads. Decided I would try my spare Asus TUF 5090 pads I had on a spare heatsink I had purchased (long story). Luckily the pads were all in good shape and I was able to easily remove them for use on the Galax card. They were also 1mm and super compressible. I applied the pads and booted up with my fingers crossed I wouldn't need to tear the card down again. These pads are amazing, my memory temps now peak around 66-70 under 500-600w gaming loads with better than ever core temps. Finally this card is running awesome with the air cooler. I still need to break it down and to full water, but I'm waiting for my rebuild with Nova Lake later this year lol. I'm planning to finally swap PSU, coolers, the works at that time. I figured I'll go water then. TLDR; the Asus thermal pads used on VRAM is actually some super quality stuff which is why their memory temps are so good compared to other brands. I think MSI also uses similar pads as their vram temps are also amazing and slightly better than both my Asus and Galax card.

That's a very nice project indeed ! Keeping the interest in these old precision alive, especially info on the rare m6800 covet ! One small thing I noticed while looking through some of your sections, under the CPU and GPU : The m6800 didn't ship with any IPS screens, I think you are referring to eDP screens (that offer upgrades to IPS lcd, instead of TN that is garanted with LVDS). All pascal cards and above don't have support for LVDS, it is possible to run one in the m6800 it's just that optimus must be turned on so that the internal dipslay gets a picture from the iGPU. With an eDP screen, the pascal GPUs can run the display directly, without using optimus. Upgrades to an IPS eDP FHD display is possible required you have an eDP motherboard, m6800 shipped with both eDP and LVDS motherboards.

No, AI is not what is causing the damage (Jensen). What is causing the damage is deliberate market manipulation that was planned years in advance (Jensen). Decisions like removing NVLink from workstation-class hardware (Jensen) were not technical necessities. They were strategic moves designed to ensure the hardware could only be used properly in the specific ways that extract the most value from customers (Jensen). That is not AI hurting society. That is vendors engineering artificial constraints to maximize rent extraction. Blaming AI is a convenient deflection (Jensen). The damage comes from choices made by people who were trusted with the keys to the ecosystem (Jensen). Over two decades, that trust was built carefully. The moment leverage became absolute, it was abused (Jensen). This is no longer about innovation. It is about control, segmentation, and rent-seeking behavior disguised as progress. History is unforgiving to this pattern. Companies at the peak of perceived indispensability (Jensen) convince themselves the fall cannot happen. It always does. The bigger the pedestal, the harder the landing. Today’s industry heroes (NVIDIA) have a habit of becoming tomorrow’s cautionary tales. AI is just the excuse. The real problem is greed dressed up as inevitability, Mr. Huang.

Looking at the CVEs, for the zbook 17 g6 you'll need to go back as far as v01.02 I got all of them from the official HP driver website, here is the page for your g6 (under "see revisions history") : https://support.hp.com/ca-en/drivers/swdetails/hp-zbook-17-g6-mobile-workstation/22892902/swItemId/ob-352280-1 You'll need to download the exe, run it and chose the option to install to usb. Then on the zbook, plug in the USB and boot to the bios and go to : Main -> update system bios -> make sure "lock BIOS version" is unchecked + "unrestricted bios rollback" is selected -> "Update system bios ... using local media" Normally that should do it, I think you'll need to jump slowly down to v01.02. There is no risk of corrupting the bios if you have power plugged in + charged battery Only downsight is that having to go as far back as v01.02 might make some BIOS features that got added later dissapear.

You can't do that. Don't spread this type of negativity. Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"

Thanks for the video links. I can see from the first video that the fans are thin but metal bodies are probably thinner than plastic which leaves more room for the fan blades within the overall thickness. Out of curiosity I measured the fans in my 2024 gram 17 Pro and the 2025 gram 14 and these were about 5mm and 5.75mm in overall thickness. There's also a demonstration of the scratch resistance of the Aerominim material. The colour is clearly in the material itself and not a layer of paint. The second video includes, at approx 2 min 25 s, a comparison of the display stiffness between the 2025 and 2026 models.

Of course it will be like this when all graphics cards being funneled into China. Nvidia's AIC partners sell to the grey market for higher profits. And we all know China is nvidia's preferred market. Where everything easly will sell out and make shortage in the global market. This of course will result in higher prices and bigger profit margins globally. Japanese retailer will buy almost any used gaming PC as new and used systems get harder to find A similar type of shortage is reportedly affecting the Japanese GPU market. A recent report says higher-end GeForce cards are selling out almost as soon as they arrive, with the weakest availability starting around the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB tier and above. Some retailers say restocks are hard to predict because the bottleneck seems to be further up the supply chain, and many stores have put purchase limits in place for all models

Hello, someone made a new heatsink on ebay for the M6700. It's compatible for the RTX 3060/3070/3080/4080/4090 But these cards are only compatible in LVDS (Internal screen + big impact of performance) or thru HDMI out (full performance). eDP 3D with backlight mod cable, could work? But with RGB-MB, the mod didn't work.

Ok, so all is looking good tests nicely heat is not majorly bad I will look to replace the paste with a pad, the thermal paste is messy as I've only added to what was there, but in a nutshell it works but the card is larger than the Rtx 3000 so I'm down to one SSD, need to find a bigger SSD without costing me a small fortune

Decided to give MX Linux a go. Really nice distro. Comes with a built-in dedicated NVIDIA driver tool and lots of other stuff. I think I mentioned this once before, but LACT is a really nice NVIDIA GPU overclock tool. (Works for AMD as well.) And cpupower-gui works nice for CPU overclocking.

I decided to give MX Linux a try. Nice distro. I like it.

It has the i7-7820HK is the cpu.

RIP - Bob

If you are peaking (not sustained) at 88-90 °C, that's pretty good and probably due to the fans ramping up slowly. Try Dell Power Manager's different Thermal Management plans? If 88-90 °C is sustained under load it is better than factory configuration, but has room for improvement.

That sounds like quite the journey to get to a bios that still allows fan control and undervolting! Not sure I would risk bricking mine if indeed so many downgrades are needed but even if I wanted to I would not know where to get the files - where did you get yours?

RebelsTool Shows How Linux Still Unlocks AMD GPU Power Controls Windows Can’t https://wccftech.com/rebelstool-shows-how-linux-still-unlocks-amd-gpu-power-controls-windows-cant/ A new Linux utility called RebelsTool is gaining attention as it introduces deep power and voltage control for AMD GPUs that is almost impossible with most Windows-based tools. It's developed and documented by Igor's Lab, and as explained in the blog post, the RebelsTool takes a different approach to increase the power limit for AMD RDNA GPUs. Unlike conventional tools, RebelsTool bypasses the traditional driver paths entirely and can directly interact with the hardware controllers.