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I bought this 4k 120hz screen from ebay https://www.ebay.com/itm/316055537869?var=614651574369 I tried uploading pictures yesterday but, it wouldn't let me because picture size!

Yeah I think the sandwich creation is sensible. Although had a (stupid idea) top of 980m cooled by main 8770w sink, and under side cooled by second fan and heat pipe, but they are held together by spider, so allows cooling assembly as two part. there are copper heatsinks for memory on Ali too I noticed so I may try them. Also plan to cool north bridge whilst I’m creating a monster i now have three 8570w sinks in various states of removed parts to work out what fits and can be used in different locations

Alienware 17 R1 120Hz and M17X R4 120Hz are good to go for the newest RTX Ampère and Ada cards in pure UEFI. ATM, the RTX Turing also work in the M17X R3 with a modded BIOS. The memory chips reach to 98C and the GPU temps is like 85C max. I don't use PTM7950. All the GDDR6 I have can achieve to 100C. The VRAM throttles at 105C I believe.

How did the 4070 run?

I understand, when I bought mine I was not aware of the disadvantage of lvds.

Just on the M17X R4. It boots, displays and drivers install. In pure-UEFI. I don't have the M18X R2 because it's a LVDS system. The 4070 would be great to be used on the M4800 as it's the a 15.6" laptop that can use a 1080p 120Hz display and has AVX2 support.

did you try the 3080 on your m18x r2 as well?

Great scores! Did you try out the 4070 on m18xr2 or the m17xr4? Or did you decide on a different card?

Would you also need to adjust the VBIOS to know that it has changed?

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Yes mine. The price is high because of the ebay fees. Yes with NVCLEANSTALL you can remove the Nvidia bloatware. The custom heatsinks can be adapted with your MXM card. Yes I have a 3080 on my M17X R4 eDP 120Hz. Runs cool and great. Got 11300 in TimeSpy graphics. Ran the 4070 in m17x R4 and Dell precision m4800, got 12400.

Thanks for the response! I have a11 mod bios by swick flashed on both m18x r2 already using peg for the 980m sli. I get the sg mode limitations. Found cicichen594 and he said he could do a custom heatsink for my project. I have actually been thinking of trying the xvision rtx 3080mxm3.0b. I also have the m17xr4 with 120hz edp and still have the old 60hz display, it is running 1070 . I was curious about what has changed in flashing vbios as it does not seem that it can be flashed like the old 980ms. Is it that a suitable vbios cant be found or that the cards wont accept it? Since I originally planned on the card mentioned above I read more on this site about problems concerning using this quadro rtx5000 on this setup that drew me to the 3080. I Read what ssj92 experienced with the same upgrade and other than the custom heatsink it seems straight forward? I can mod inf. files but nvcleanstall sounds much easier and can eliminate unwanted bloatware? I have not used this before and wish I knew of It sooner. I recently saw and xvision 4070 on ebay was this your card?

It somewhat is incompatible as the AGA link from cold boot is often poor. I have to "reboot" the AGA once inside windows to get a stable link.

yep the sandwich thing, that's the way with a 980M. But in any case, i think the DVD port need a trim right? If not, the card will sit on it. From my side, i have two spare heatsink, will try to get it separate for the two cards, CPU cooling with 2 pipes and his fan & same for GPU, looking for high performance heat pipes. Waiting for all the material. And for the memory under the card, another copper plate in fact, or some little thin sheets should help, connected to the main heatsink, and its perfect.

Whoa, didn't see that coming, congrats @Reciever! Not sure you'll be able to handle all that power man!! That's a huge step up! Keeping it in the family is always a plus 💜 -------------------------------------------------------- Having delidded dozens of CPUs over the years, this is always the first thing that smacks you in the face the instant insane cooler running..... ------------------------------------------------------- Makes total sense with the price hikes and 5090s trickling in.....at least from Asus's perspective. Prices are in flux real time. There's no realistic backstock to fall back on.....thanks Nvidia! We know what's incoming..... Asus and Gigabyte raising prices by 20% in Chinese channels Gigabyte raising prices by up to 40% in Japan GPU Prices up by 30% in South Korea Prices are also on the rise 5080 on down. Microcenter has officially raised prices and something like the GB WF SFF 5080 I picked up open box for $983 less than three weeks ago is now officially "$1599.99" with some old stock marked as on sale atm or clear out, but this is a portend of things to come. 60% over MSRP......crazy. Cheapest 5070ti is $989 and those prices haven't been adjusted up yet but basically (may be worse but at least): 5080 $1599 new low price incoming 5070ti $1199 new low price incoming 5070 $699 new low price incoming 9070xt's are supposed to get a price hike soon but the problem is nobody is buying and they really should at a certain point with some of these prices. I seriously think AMD is the only reason Nvidia is somewhat not blowing up 5070 and 5070ti prices even more like they are doing with the 5080 and especially the 5090. --- With the contraction of the overall PC market, the logic here for MB makers is.....charge more because those who were going to buy will buy anyhow? Maybe Intel with Nova Lake, but AMD users will just keep their AM5 boards and upgrade their CPUs if they feel the need..... https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-gigabyte-and-msi-reportedly-plan-motherboard-price-increases-for-q3-2026 Don't forget memory is officially booked through 2027..... Good times!!

I ordered this as my second Z890 board. Price for a 2-DIMM is hard to beat. This is a LONG review and he actually does live memory overclocking and does a teardown on the board.

Hello. The RTX 5000 and RTX 3080 will only work in Switchable Graphics. So you need a modded BIOS to change the video's option to SG (Switchable Graphics) Turing and Ampere GPUs do not have any LVDS PEG capabilities. They can only do eDP output. Yes these cards work with iGPU SG, not in PEG on that laptop. These cards work in PEG eDP only with the M17X R4 120Hz eDP version + backlight mod. If you're limited by the iGPU, you can overclock the display to 75Hz using CRU software. But please be careful with that. For the drivers installation, just use the NVCLEANSTALL software, it's easy. For the cooling. For the RTX 3080, you need to find a custom heatsink for that offset. I tested so much Turing to Ada MXM cards on more than 10 systems. I do have one RTX 4070 MXM available, still has warranty.

You can send to @ssj92 a PM he try many gpus with AW m18x R2

The greed is eminent everything else... NVIDIA cancels $4,600 GeForce RTX 5090 order after ASUS rejects pre-price hike pricing, new order costs $5,100 RTX 5090 buyer loses order after ASUS raises price by 12.5% NVIDIA says it asked ASUS to honor the original purchase. The graphics card maker reportedly rejected the request. NVIDIA also said it could not restore the canceled order or create a replacement order using the older price.

Pretty epic bundle they got there.

Sold to our beloved friend @Reciever

Sold to Brother @Reciever. A pleasure as always, friend. Thank you.

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You can upgrade the EC Bios to 1.07.10TR3 from the official XMG website https://download.schenker-tech.de/package/xmg-zenith-17/

It never ceases to amaze me how much better temperatures are bare die.