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the RGB panel is worth it and that screen alone is a reason to own these M17x/R2 systems. I have RGB panel in my m17x & M17xR2.

It works fine as a bootable usb to unlock 1.5.0 temporarily. need to boot from usb everytime to access unlocked bios. need more bios version dumps to expand the compatibility

I am surprised the Asus bios has support for any overclocking options. Granted the last Asus I tried was that Strix Scar 17 which was quite some time ago. I have currently the 5600 Kingston CL40 2x16GB kit at stock timings other than tREFI 24k. This lets VSOC set at 900mv which is great for balanced mode where the chip is limited to 55W in combined loads. Supposedly memory heatsinks from Aliexpress can help keep bumping VDD/VDDQ from pushing temps as high, so thats the next thing to try with memory overclocking. I can tame the RGB by setting keyboard brightness to zero via the toggle FN-F8 key (EC can remember this setting unlike anything configured in Steelseries) then unplug the front lightbar and the lid logo RGB is gone courtesy of the Vector A18 lid. I think the Asus could be a good alternative if the bios is not limiting and you get full support using the G-helper tool instead of Armory Crate. 9955HX3D is definitely outperforming 14900HX running around in the new content zones and raiding activities. I have heard that Nova Lake HX will not have a bLLC variant, so I guess 9955HX3D will be it for another year. Who knows if there will be any mobile GPU refresh. Probably not when the AI craze still drives the market.

5090 is fixed. Got the new fuses from Mouser today and installed them after work. My SMD soldering is ghetto-looking because I am scared of exploding caps and blowing small parts off their pads with my hot air station and always use an iron. Using the hot plate to preheat the GPU to 110°C helped a ton using the iron. (I should buy a dead mobo or GPU on eBay super cheap and use it for practice to get over my fear of messing things up with the hot air.) But, hey, it works now. Powered through an 800W run of Steel Nomad to confirm it. I had ordered new thermal pads for the block and they got delayed from Amazon, so I will have to take it apart again tomorrow after work to replace the thermal poop with liquid metail and install the new pads. (Assuming they are actually delivered tomorrow.)

Happy birthday @Papusan! Hopefully it is a good one and shout out to Mrs Papusan! -------------------------------------------------------------- 4k only WoW testing to see if I wanted to upgrade/switch the wife's SP109 14900KS + 4000 Bdie tuned at 4000 vs 270k + KB 8400 tuned at 8400 (both passed TM5 Extreme). Tuned up the 270k at 5.6ghz with the KingBank 8400 sticks ran some vs tests with the same settings as the wife's 14900ks DDR4 tuned system and the 270k officially equals the 14900ks at 4k with the exact same CPU bound results even with a 9070xt in areas (fixed spots out in the world devoid of player data, namely Eversong Woods) dropping to 91-93% whereas the 9800X3D can lock it down to 100% on those same 9070xt cards. This is setting up two platforms and the 270k running the Powercolor 9070xt Red Devil and hers running the Gigabyte OC Gaming 9070xt. Swapped cards back and forth, basically the same results. In same scenarios, Red Devil runs 3200+, while the Gigabyte runs 3100+. Red Devil pulls ~18w more stock for stock too. Gigabyte = SK Hynix Red Devil = Samsung Overall, even in raids, scary just how powerful the 5090 is and how much Blizzard has improved their optimizations for GPUs but they really do need to to where I can cap out the 9070xt easily in raids on X3D at 4k and even push the 5090 close to cap out many times even with all the FX going on and seeing 70-98% utilization depending on encounter and situation. I must reiterate how much the Intel anything + 9070xt is dogwater for Fallout 76. Running the 270k + 9070xt again is just the worst...... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Couldn't resist and picked up an open box Asus G16 9955HX3D + 5070ti for $1800 from Amazon Warehouse to do some testing especially in Fallout 76 since the Alienware 275hx + 5070ti was grossly underfeeding the 5070ti in spots in QHD most likely due to the architecture and inability to tune memory / support much higher speeds. Need to see if the 9955HX3D caps it out properly at QHD and at what fps. Pros: The Asus bios for AMD supports full Overclocking options for AMD versus the Intel counterpart. This model is known to run dead silent on light/ no load for desktop use Actually has a lower sound profile under load than the Alienware Cons: No out of box BIOS level memory tuning for the 32GB of DDR5 5600 memory (2x16GB). If the 9955HX3D caps out the 5070ti in Fallout 76 in QHD, which I expect it to do considering a 9800X3D caps out a desktop 5070 in QHD, it gives more weight to a potential 9955HX3D+5090 laptop. @win32asmguy how goes the Raider tuning and testing? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Still waiting on Asus to send the X870e Dark Hero so I can set up a test bench with it with the delidded 9850X3D and collect more WoW/Fallout 76 data testing all my cards: 5060, 9070xt x 2, 5080, 5090, 6000. It's the linchpin to start moving other parts around and get the SFF going too. ------------------------------------------------------------------- @tps3443 Titan Rig has a nice open box sale on an Astral GPU block if you want to block your beast: https://www.titanrig.com/openbox-alphacool-core-geforce-rtx-5090-rog-astral-gpu-water-block-with-backplate.html

Interesting. My lenovo system recognizes the card with that vbios while the Clevo does not. It does boost up to 1911, but the power limit is not behaving right. I'm hitting the power limit at around 120W, even at the stock 150W, or if I raise it to 175W. I tried 8GHz RAM on that which worked. Trying 9GHz and 8.5GHz got me locked to 6GHz though. GPUz would report the set overclock as the default clock, but it would actually run 6Ghz. Overall perf is worse on this even with 8GHz ram. Clock offsets would be fun if you could get that to work.

This stock HP VR backpack bios worked to make the card post and get the core to 1911Mhz, I am trying to reverse engineer it to find where the 1911M hz limit is VS the 1708Mhz limit in the dell vbios. P5200_HP_ZVRG1.bin

4090 works very well on the 9900k better than on the i7 4940MX/4930K 390FPS on Heaven benchmark 1080p Ultra.

Sad, but you are probably right:( I wish mxm had become a broader standard and the cards weren't so damn rare. A rare card plus 100+usd cooler is not something I can afford, but it is cool to know that solutions exist to bring these laptops forward, hopefully until the 9900k becomes totally obsolete. For now, in terms of the power limit, the old driver wouldn't work great for new games, plus most of my use of the computer is on Linux where I have no idea how the power limit thing works. It may be dumb, but would putting a higher value shunt in place of the default one be an acceptable way to bring the power limit down a bit? Is there a vbios that would lower it? can the stock vbios be modded for a lower limit? As much as I like the idea of crazy stationary watercooling or mods that stick out the bottom of the case, this laptop needs to be portable enouugh to take to classes and durable enough to get tossed around on unpaved highways washboards without a fragile mod breaking or a fitting leaking fluid everywhere. They are annoying contstraints to work within when a solution to all my problems may well be cutting the bottom off and directing a 120mm fan into the base of the laptop, but I do still have to use this laptop for things

Also, would a 1680 x 1050 panel work? 6 bit colour same specs as my 1440 x 900 without the need of the upgraded cable that the RGB 1920 x 1200 display. Requires? I was thinking of buying one of those opposed to the RGB panels as it’s probably going to take a while to find the cable.

Hey! Sorry just seen. panel on mine is 1440 x 900 Samsung LTN170BT10-001 just installed the dell 970M appears to have some weird artefacts

None will get discarded, these cards will get rarer and stay expensive unless someone wants to get rid of them quickly. Heatsink prices are like 100 to 150USD depending the laptop. I developed my own backlight mod cable. It allows to enable the backlight of the EDP screen and it also allows to set a preferred brightness for it. There's a powerful watercooling shared heatpipes design heatsink for the RTX 40XX for the P775TM1. It can allow 9900KS at 5GHz all core and 4090 without any thermal throttle for 400USD!! HDMI, DP are working yes.

That's sad, I would have thought people would still be interested in bios mods and stuff even for the newer less-upgradable laptops I still find the p775dm3 to be pretty usable for modern stuff Mine now has a 9th gen CPU and 20 series GPU, sounds like it could be brought up so far as 40 series at least Perhaps Framework and the open standard for their PCIe bay will bring back some kind of modding. Would be cool if Framework went about making a DTR

Interesting, all the functions work? any issues with some of the dp or hdmi ports? internal screen control? Did you make your own heatsink or did you source one from somewhere? This is not something I would be able to afford any time soon, but I will keep it in mind if the 40 series mxm ever becomes cheap and discarded.

Yes I though of that as well, I am also thinking of looking into the voltage table that should exist? I found some info of it for Pascal on the internet, that might be a way to unlock clocks or undervolting for these cards.

I’m really liking the direction ASUS is taking with the Duo as well—the dual-screen setup looks genuinely useful rather than just being a gimmick. If they can pair that design with a stronger GPU option, I could definitely see it replacing a larger laptop for a lot of people.

In my opinion, it will be a while (18 months or more) until a "bubble pop". There is more than enough time for an IPO of Anthropic and Open AI, so that the public is eventually left holding the bag of risk, as usual. There is a lot of optimism about the prospect of superintelligence, also cultivated by some CEOs, and it appears to be enough to keep investors hooked. There are many factors that can delay this even further like increased inflation caused by geopolitical turmoil, scarcity of hardware or a legal framework that could prevent consumers from running competitive, competent open weight LLMs locally. Anything that is detrimental for the consumer running AI locally is beneficial for retaining the bubble. So we can bet we will see more inflation, more hardware scarcity, stricter regulation of local AI, and more geopolitical turmoil to extend the party.

No. Then why do they work in the P570WM3 (2012 laptop) and on the P775 and P870? It makes no sense. I contacted kela-slk since this person tested a lot of MXM 3.0 GPUs but without telling the results at the end when he fixed his laptop.

Maybe The x-vsion cards vbios is the issue

One possibility to get around vbios overclocking locks might be if we could get device ID modding to work. The P5000 is the same 16GB memory config as the P5200, so that could be used as a base. I wonder if the older P4000 and P5000 vbios aren't as locked down as the later P5200 vbios.

Depends. on 1080p panel you will get inverted colors. On lower res panel it'll work. unless you do dual PEG trick.

Thank you very much bro Fox🙂 I appreciate it. Got my first gift right now. From my lovely wife.

It's almost midnight in Norway. Happy Birthday tomorrow Brother @Papusan. May you enjoy many more of them, filled with happiness in between. We are glad you are our friend.

Frank and Dusty are jamming together in paradise now. Billy is no spring chicken, so he may join them soon. ZZ Top was one of my favorite Southern Rock bands of all time. True icons that produced some legendary and timeless music hits. The entertainment industry just does not make music like they did any more. I had the privilege of seeing them live, in concert, at the Arizona State Fair in November of 2005.