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This year’s balance sheet and sales projections coming out of Dell have to be some of the worst I’ve seen in decades. I honestly don’t know who over there drank the Kool-Aid, but the disconnect from reality is getting absurd. Dell pushed another round of price increases at the start of this week. This time it wasn’t just servers. It hit the consumer side as well. Because our order includes consumer-grade components, we got nailed with roughly a 30% jump on desktops and laptops, right after they already hiked server pricing a few weeks ago. To put numbers on it: a very basic configuration, i9-285, 16GB DDR5, 512GB NVMe, which was already overpriced at $1218, is now sitting around $1500. And they’re acting like this is some kind of favor due to “market conditions.” Meanwhile, HP is selling the same class machine on their public website, no bulk discounts, no backroom pricing, no end-of-year promos, with higher specs, i9-285, 32GB DDR5, 512GB NVMe, for $1299. That’s what any random person sees when they go online and compare systems. So Dell’s “heavily discounted” bulk pricing is now more expensive than HP’s public retail pricing with better hardware. Let that sink in. This isn’t about RAM shortages anymore. This is pricing discipline gone off the rails, and it’s happening at the worst possible time. If this is what Dell thinks the market will tolerate going into next year, they’re in for a rude awakening.

ALL AW17 rangers have both LVDS & EDP connectors on the motherboards. For edp options, you have either the 30pin (60hz) or the 40pin (120hz+ or 3D). For LVDS, it's 40pin 60hz (NOT compatible with edp screen).

I have mine for almost a year. I had to change the screen cable and saw the two connectors at the board. My screen is LVDS.

Yes, and it does not work. The heatsink is lying on the frame. So when you install this you will have a gap with the thickness of IHS. And because the VRM and CPU cooling is on the same block there will be height issues.

W11 sleep probably consumes too much power to keep cool but not enough power to trigger the fans to run fast enough to keep temps down. You could try to go to a lower sleep state again as you had S3 on W10 and now you are at S0 with W11. That is if Dell has not updated your bios and robbed you of that option, in that case you have to hibernate if you want to keep temperatures down.

Had a very good experience editing images with freeware app Krita in the tablet. I have been using it for PC long ago and the Android version is quite complete to my surprise and appears robust.

Hello. Let me write it again. You don't have to keep the ZRT GPU. You buy it, extract the VBIOS and return it. It's simple as that. You just tell them the GPU doesn't work in the system, like your system doesn't boot and they'll accept the return. I do not recommend X-VSION at all anymore. They have a bad customer service because they don't help people fix the drivers/VBIOS issues and are joking about your frustration. Only ZRT seems to have good quality cards (drivers and VBIOS). If I could flash ZRT VBIOS on 4080 or 4090 in X-VSION cards (which won't happen because no one cares and ZRT doesn't want to sell me anything anyway), it'll be a big win and a major fix for these high-tier cards. If you can't get the 4090, then get the ZRT 4080... Returning it, it will refund all the amount you spent on. Thanks...

You can! The parts you need are: - 40 pin display cable - IR camera module - Screen bezel (The bezel for IR cameras has a different privacy cover mechanism) - Double-sided LCD adhesive, similar to this: LCD Adhesive on eBay - LCD screen with 40 pin narrow (0.4mm pin pitch) signal interface. Screens from contemporary 15" Alienware laptops will probably work, but always check with Panelook first (see a few posts up)

It seems that eDP works on X-vision's RTX 4050-4070 models, but what would happen if this VBIOS was applied to the 4090? I haven't been able to purchase from ZRT. I haven't even submitted a quote to the import agent. Because the price is too high and I can't go ahead with the purchase. It would make it impossible for me to make a living.HAHAHA

Here are references to Pro Precision 9. https://registry.dmtf.org/products/dell-pro-precision-9-t6-pw9t6260 https://registry.dmtf.org/products/dell-pro-precision-9-t4-pw9t4260 https://registry.dmtf.org/products/dell-pro-precision-9-t2-pw9t2260

Be very careful when replacing thermal pads because if they are not the correct thickness you will have a big problem. If any pad is too thin, there will be no contact with the heatsink; if it is too thick, it can impair contact with other pads and the CPU and/or GPU. I recommend measuring the thickness of each original pad with a caliper and using soft pads. Or use good quality thermal putty and you shouldn't have any problems.

@srs2236 Is there any chance you still have all the photos somewhere from modifications? For me most important will be photo of the thickness of the thermal pads you used. Yesterday arrived my heatsink the build quality is average :x CPU and GPU contact surface is not acceptable i will need somehow to polish it.

WOW is that Uncle Ted now....I'm getting pretty old, he must be way up there in age. He used to play like this Ted Nugent - Wango Tango

Guys, can i change my 60Hz (1080p) screen to another faster (120,144,165Hz) on my 7530?Maybe from other Dell's model.Now I have installed a Quadro p3200 with nv-192 radiator, perfomance is very well,using ptm7950 on cpu and gpu cristalls,and Honeywell HT10000 thermal putty (10Wk*m) on vrm.Now I play games with v-sync On (in game setting, global in nvcp works worse), without fps limiter, low latency mode is ON (Ultra does not work smoothly, with micro stutter). So the input delay is not huge, my games can be played in full but I'll want to minimize the delay as much as possible.

Not all Alienware 17 rangers are edp though they all have the connection on the board . The 60 hz ones are either lvds or edp

Thank you very much, you have a kind heart.

Thanks for sharing your case. It's resolved by removing one power supply. Probably the GND issue I will get one WD19DC/DCS.

290K only most likely, even if I already know that all Intel has likely done is set D2D and NGU to 32x on both, and slightly binned or overvolted the cores a bit to push clocks. Very likely some sort of Intel APO fluff with new titles as well. If they've somehow fix latency a tad I'd be really shocked but I don't expect it. Still, if I can eek out a couple hundred Mhz on the P/E cores over a 285K, it will be worth it for fun. I imagine we will get a CES launch/announcement with a late Jan street date on the refresh. It sorta blows my mind Intel has waited this long, but it is what it is. I'm also hoping they launch the Sapphire Rapids HEDT at CES. The cache on those chips looks insane, and honestly it might make for a very expensive gaming CPU if it can be clocked. HEDT was always more fun.

Meta (aka FacePoot) Instacram and Reddtit are the social media cesspools of the world and I do not even like logging in to their platforms. I feel instantly dirty when I do.

yup, the only thing happened so far is two like dead pixel lines on my panel, from i assume all the jumping and sleeping my cat has been doing on this poor thing haha. oh and had to change keyboard like 4 times... but the last one so far is good. oh and it desperately needs new thermal paste, its very loud. the rest has been the same, all the overclocks, undervolts, ram timings.

After owning several MSI boards (Unify X and Carbon) and numerous ASUS boards, if it were me I would stick with ASUS if for no other reason than much better firmware. Apex is a great motherboard generally. Every MSI I have owned has something in the firmware that was irksome to me. They were OK in terms of hardware. Svet deals with fixing lots of MSI firmware messes. They are never-ending. MSI forums are littered with examples of problems caused by screwed up firmware. That sucks donkey butt. These idiot game dev clowns are going to FAFO what happens to dictators. They usually end up dead. I am happy that I don't care about Valorant. If I did, I would no longer. It would be dead to me, just as Battlefield and Call of Duty titles that require this stupid nonsense are now. Nasty finger salute to all of them, with both hands. No game is good enough or matters to me to such a degree that I will be told what I have to do in order to play it. They can drop dead and I hope that they do.

Given your use case (Office, travel, no gaming), I’d avoid overpaying for power you won’t use. Still, Lenovo LOQ 15 83JC00GKUS is worth checking out: it has a proper 15.6" keyboard with a real numpad, solid build quality, and configs with 16 GB RAM and NVMe SSD, which is ideal for Excel-heavy work. Just make sure the specific model supports USB-C charging and is available with a Portuguese keyboard. If not, similar Asus VivoBook or Lenovo ThinkPad E-series models may be a better fit for frequent travel.

Dose anyone try this with clevo laptops LGA1151 ?