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After using Dell Precision mobile workstations for years I made the switch to this Lenovo Thinkpad because with similar configurations the price of a Thinkpad was around € 1000 lower. Of course it blows my old Precision 7520 with Quadro M2200M (Maxwell 2nd generation) out of the water. I got configuration 21RQ000PMH (Core Ultra 9 275HX - RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell - 64GB DDR5 5600) Yesterday I've been running various FutureMark / UL benchmarks which I will link here if you like to compare this laptop to your configuration: 3DMark FireStrike: 32320 3DMark FireStrike Extreme: 19358 3DMark FireStrike Ultra: 10819 3DMark TimeSpy: 15846 3DMark TimeSpy Extreme: 8382 3DMark Port Royal: 10860 3DMark Steel Nomad: 3855 3DMark 11 Performance: 40876 3DMark 11 Extreme: 20436 3DMark Vantage Performance: 115267 3Mmark Vantage Extreme: 82618 3DMark06: 64523 3DMark05: 79223 3DMark03: 275953 PCMark 10: 9763 PCMark 10 Extended: 13417 GeekBench 6 CPU: 16277478 GeekBench 6 OpenCL: 5667305 GeekBench 6 Vulkan: 5667321

thanks for the response. yeah i know there are similar cards. i think another user put a p5200 in his machine, which would be 16GB card, but he had alot of issues getting there. i dont mind the cost aspect, its more what the card could be capable of. Heck the old clunky its in HP8570W is oooold. but fun to tinker with. 980m seem fairly plentiful at present. with the LVDS screen in my machine im limited on what cards i can put in without going to dreamcolour screen and extras. so 980M is final maxwell card, i think final pascal card i can run is 1060m but thats 6gb max, its more what works with machine than whats out there with an MXM edge connector.

Maybe there is a copy of the checksum in header section ? As mobile TDP tweaker only edits bytes in the "please" string. Because removing header section lets the drivers install and the card functions with no errors on precision 7720. What's interesting is the parser I linked has entries for "Clock table" and "power tables" however I wasn't able to dicepher it more then that, according to the guys in imac forum, they did manually edit clock and voltage tables with a hex editor, so there must be a comprehensible to read the data and edit it. Unfortunately guys from imac are AWOL so we'll have to find these data entries on our own.

Yes I had the same problem with both my p3000 and 1060M (tested on 7720), TDP tweaker killed checksum, the fix was after modding with mobile TDP tweaker, saving, I manually removed header section in hex editor (I think I showed it earlier) tho this might not work on m6700 as it needs header section from ES vbios to not give ACPI error I think.

thanks for answers, price on New\Used motherboards on ebay is very expensive, its higher than my laptop buying price. lcd 120hz and cable much cheaper than mobo. on Ebay in Canada i saw P570wm 120hz complete for 500 usd, but i feel sorry to throw away my laptop... and shipping to my country its very expensive price. and i try find a solution about mod my board, but i see its not easy (like on my AW M17X r4 edp and LVDS outputs soldered on mobo and both working factory 🙂 )

Update: new Heatsink has arrived and has been modified

Hello. eDP motherboards are currently being sold on eBay. They're safer than modifying an LVDS motherboard. You'll need an eDP cable and an eDP-compatible display, though.

anyone has 2x8GB / 4(2)x4GB DDR3L 2133 modules n no use for it anymore?

the 2000 seems like to fit in the m6800, just a bit of heatsink modding needed for the coils... stock around 15% higher performance then a P5200 but less then half power needed + all new goodies. maybe a shunt mod on this card would bring a big boost bcs chip(GB206) is the same like the desktop 5060(Ti) ones

Yes mxm a can be installed, you need a full eDP screen for the best performance on your GT60. Heatsink modification is needed because the VRM and one inductor from the card are taller than anything else.

It is a great example of an outcome where novelty and the importance of aesthetics triumph over intelligence. There will always be a market where stupidity flourishes.

More Sapphire Nitro+ burning issues yet the Taichi with the same 12v2x6 connector seems to be ok? One problem with the Sapphire is the rear back mounting which has no choice but to twist and bend the cable in all scenarios. It is unavoidable. Another is it is directly in the line of fire of exhausting heat..... https://videocardz.com/newz/sapphire-rx-9070-xt-nitro-adds-two-more-burned-blue-tipped-12v-2x6-adapter-reports-and-issues-with-rma

an 1GB IC costs around 10 bucks = 160 bucks... n for a couple bucks more u get an P5000 already 🤠 n 12GB not possible, bcs no 1.5GB ICs(only GDDR6/7)

Thanks for the link. I was trying to parse it on my own. For now I went back to the ES vbios and edit it with the Mobile Pascal TDP Tweaker. I flash it with external programmer. However, no matter how small the modification, nvidia drivers seem to reject GPU with error code 43 in device manager. I tried disabling driver signature enforcment but nothing changed. GPU-Z reports bunch of fields as Unknown, Memory size is 0, clocks are also 0. I'll include the screenshots. I suspect this is some nvidia vbios signature validation issue, but Mobile Pascal TDP Tweaker says both ES vbios and modified vbios have the same checksum.

Hopefully the idiots like Jensen, Lisa Su, Nadella and the rest of the AI cartel will be the first robot-murdered human beings when the machines take over.

There is no point upgrade/downgrade Windows to different versions. Even with less points in 3DMark with the newest version I refuse to upgrade to the latest and greatest. Microsoft destroy their OS with AI. The sad part... They don't even understand why it goes the wrong way. Ai RUN THE GAME SHOW! THANKS MR. JENSEN. Even a fool could have predicted this would be the outcome from AI. Windows 11 KB5074109 update now linked to boot failures Microsoft admits it accidentally crashed apps like Notepad, Paint, Snipping Tool on Windows 11,...

If you do end up trying another, the only logical model is the Red Devil. You get the highest phase design, 3x8pin and I would say one of the best and quietest air coolers, but we know you would rip that off ASAP. Even though it is a kick in the performance sack, I wouldn't be adverse to running a KPE3090 again if it came to that and a 3090 is where you wanted to go. We didn't realize that was truly the last of a magical time in GPUs. 😞 Based upon how AMD implemented mobile considerations with their effectively transplanted desktop chips, I think you are better off with the 275hx. I have yet to encounter an AMD laptop that doesn't have poor fan tables and fans revving up vs the now three 275hx based laptops I've tested. Even the hot box Acer Nitro 15.6" with 5060 and 275hx that thermal throttles under heavy load runs relatively even and quiet vs the Acer 16" AMD OLED, Acer AMD 7325 + 4050 15.6" and my former Raider 7945HX3D. Unless AMD changes something in their mobile implementation, I am going to stick with Intel moving forward. Since the launch of their Ultra chips both true mobile and desktop shoehorned into laptops, they just run quieter and more even for D2D use than AMD....at least in my testing/use cases. We only ended up with a paltry 6 inches of snow. So disappointing..... (Sorry @Papusan! 🤣) I was wondering if you had a preferred card one over the other, but as Nvidia stock dries up there's plenty of 9070xt cards available even though prices jumped. Hopefully AMD can make some more inroads. lol, thanks! It really is the best model on paper out of the 9070xt lineup for several reasons. I didn't even really give it a serious look till you went with one and I went "Hmmm, if @Rage Set is going with it, maybe there's more to it that I missed," and then read some reviews, watched some videos and realized it is the best 9070xt this time around overall IMHO. Ugh, Thursday night after the gym I had a scratchy throat and itchy sinuses. I woke up Friday feeling like someone hit me with a baseball bat. High temp, throat feeling full of glass shards. By Saturday, it had moved down into my lungs and chest was hurting and nose flowing like the nile. Sunday temp spiking to 103+ and now a tight, juicy cough with lots of green stuff that would make even Slimer proud. Took a home test and yep, Flu A. I skipped my flu shot this year too and this was a nice reminder why I shouldn't skip it. My wife got her flu shot and she picked up Flu A from me and besides some mild sniffles, she's fully functional while I am coughing and hacking up all types of stuff with spiking fevers going on day 4 and I'm just wiped out.....luckily I have enough energy to at least play FO76 and WoW 🤣 Like you, and I am sure the bulk of us married, I dunno how we would survive without our significant others. I will say this though, I will take the flu over Covid any day of the week.....Covid wrecks me in a way no other sickness ever has and I'm down for the count for 6-8 weeks depending on how close I contract it to my vaxx window and even after I am weakened for quite awhile. I've had Covid 5x now in the last 6 years (including on "launch" in early 2020). My wife caught it with me last February and it was the sickest she's ever been in her life. In her words, "I now see how this crap can take someone out...." I think one reason I tend to skip my flu shot from time to time is because even at its very worse it is maybe a 5/10 vs covid for me. Oh, and you're relatively young. You're what? In your 30s? Yes, it gets worse as you get older.... 🤣

Oh yeah, I still need Revo. I use it all of the time for software removals, not just to uninstall Edge. However, it is good that the CTT script allows it in case anyone doesn't have Revo installed. You can also make Edge removable with a couple of minor registry tweaks, but that is more hassle that using CTT debloat or Revo. Revo works good for uninstalling everything. It removes all traces of file remnants and registry keys very effectively. Windoze is such a slop bucket and most program uninstallers do a half-assed job. Revo makes it convenient to uninstall all of the digital UWP app filth from Micro$lop Store. It let's you nuke it like it never existed, even if the UWP crap has no program uninstaller of its own.

There is also this interesting link on how some of the hex editing can work for pascal vbios, I had a look but couldn't really get much out of it. It doesn't explain the header section.

I would rec. a thermal repaste along with replacing the thermal pads with thermal putty. It seems like your machine might not have the entire Die being in contact with the heatsink. at idle it shouldnt be at 100C, even when stressed it should get up to 100 but still be around 4.2-4.3ghz all core under load. (optimized fan preset). With my 7550 I have yet to repaste it since getting it, so it should be using the original paste and that has been my experience. After getting fresh and enhanced paste should improve things dramatically. Most cpu's that have absolutely cracked and dried out paste will show what you're experiencing, repasting it and also replacing the pads for the CPU with putty would be your best bet of getting things under control thermally.

Enterprise is the same as Pro except for some added crap for domain networking. LTSC in totally different and dramatically less bloated. IoT has a longer service window than LTSC if you care about updates. Rebloating to play games is only necessary if you play games that are trash-dependent, like crap from Micro$lop Game Studios. Enterprise (non-LTSC) has all of the same bloat you find in Pro already baked in. No difference in terms of bloat between the two. Server performs the same as W10 and W11 IoT LTSC overall. W11 Pro starts to show its bloat a little bit in terms of CPU overhead, but still so close between the three that I don't think it warrants the effort of a clean install for the sake of performance gains because the results are within a normal margin of error. If one needed to do a clean install for other reasons (cancer updates, corruption, malware, etc.) then IoT LTSC is still probably the best option. There is less trash in IoT LTSC to deal with. Server is similar, but has other added nonsense that has to be disabled (like Server Manager loading at startup). At the end of the day none of them are particularly good OSes and there are no dramatic differences. W11 Pro is the slowest OS of all due to the payload of filth and product regressions in general. We already knew that, so no surprise. Unfortunately, I do not have W11 IoT LTSC installed on this system, but that is probably good for the average user in terms of this comparison since it highlights the dumpster fire better. Here are some additional photos with just ordinary gamerboy PBO overclocking (thus lower Cinebench scores and higher CPU-Z single thread scores) versus manual overclocking. Using PBO is probably a better way to compare them since you are leaving the OS to impose its will on hardware versus hardware imposing its will on Windoze. Here are the same images before that you could not see for some reason. The drive tested is the W10 OS drive so take that into consideration on the write speeds.

I disable secure boot and everything related to bios (sure start, etc) Checked rollback version max to 1.02 Load firmware to USB, boot from it (the USB content is only HP folder, i don't think its bootable, or i missing some steps perhaps) Turn on the laptop using Win + B (black screen forever with fan 100%) Setting clock to 2019 (even i try to update the bios back to back to 1.16 and to 1.14 again to make sure "last bios update" goes to 2019) The weird thing, it seems "update bios from local media" only read from local disk drive (i update from 1.24 to 1.14 using hp firmware exe from windows), it stays even after i delete the .bin on swsetup (i wonder where the program store the .bin) I tried everything I guess All with no avail, bios update denied by system policy

Hello everyone, I came across this amazing discussion thread and it rekindled my interest in upgrading my old gaming laptops. I own an old-school MSI GT780 running an i7-2860QM and a GTX 980M 8GB, an MSI GT60 with an i7-3920XM and GTX 1060, and finally another GT60 with an i7-4960MX and a Quadro RTX 3000. I was wondering if any of you have experimented with the newer MXM cards on MSI laptops? I also have another question: I’m considering upgrading to an RTX 4060 or 4070 to replace my Quadro RTX 3000. Do you think it’s possible to install a Type A MXM card in place of a Type B one? Thanks everyone for your replies!

I’m using HP ZBook Fury 16 G10 with 16" WUXGA (1920×1200) matte IPS BOE panel. My work is mostly PDFs, text, and AutoCAD. I’m experiencing eye strain and slightly blurry / thin text, almost like an astigmatism effect. The image also feels too bright and somewhat oversaturated, even at low brightness. ClearType, scaling 125%, and color profiles didn’t really help. Has anyone experienced this with the BOE WUXGA panel? Is the 4K dream color panel actually better for sensitive eyes, or does scaling make it worse? Any recommendations for a more eye-friendly panel (Innolux, AUO, low blue light, sRGB)?