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Thats good to hear your test proved a pass, so it seems to align the card is good. Definitely review your cooling solution as this may have been a bit tooo close a call to failure. Happy to measure my 8770W "half plate" GPU sink if you need heights verified. That will work for a 980M but not anything newer, if i recall @KbX has a 1070M in his (but suffers display output options) not sure if hes evolved his heatsink since. Can anyone advise if the 1080M has been tried, not sure why we stopped at 1070m as i saw one which didnt have the PSU plug so it must be downclocked to run via MXM slot.

I bought a 980m from Aliexpress about 2017ish...lasted until 2020 then suddenly died. Apparently the VRM's are underpowered on these models. I really should look at repairing it but I don't use my Ranger much at all Aliexpress listing will say if it has vbios for Alienware! I skipped the 1060 and tried an MSI 1070m...requires cutting your chassis a bit.

Yeah, it does. If a person had the soldering skills and DDR5 BGA template, that would be a cheap way of "making" RAM as long as they didn't need 8000+ MT/S speeds. Congratulations, brother. I am glad that your dedication to excellence, faithfulness and hard work is finally being recognized. I'm glad you are being facetious, otherwise I would be concerned.

thats the kind of stuff that reminds of the good ol' NBR days 🙂 very nice! no justifications necessary, JUST DO IT! 😄 at 6000+ bucks its a steal and totally worth it hahaha

Looks like my promotion is finally in the works. I am getting reports of multiple departments fighting to get me in their camp. Its a nice complement, but Im still treating it as non-existent until I get an offer letter. Due to my "detailed" approach, which is really just a really nice way of saying I demand details and ruffle quite a bit of feathers in the process. It has been deemed necessary for me to become an Engineer for Proof of Concept. Basically I work with onboarded clients and make the how-to for green IT'ish people to facilitate their orders. Still wont be able to justify a 5090 though lol

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Hello thanks for answering. What settings should I use on the clevo? I only have the offset voltage, AVX, ratio and power limits. I have a 9900K that was tested at 5.2GHz all cores at 1.36V with AVX2 -3 with a Z370 motherboard.

@Maro97 Most likely all chips that report errors (6/8). Start with the 2 that appear to be physically damaged and report most errors then retest.

back from vacation gaiz! and damn... who wouldve thought that my hardware setup actually generates more returns than my actual stock portfolio?! LULZ but even at an average selling price of 6080€ (bought my Suprim at 3300€ incl. tax and shipping, so +84% markup now) theres literally zero incentive for me to sell. just goes to show that when it comes to my PC hardware hobby, the passion and fun i get out of it far outweighs any monetary benefit it might generate. since basically all our everyday expenses are pretty much on the frugal side (aside from travels), i guess u can call that my one splurgeful vice 😄 btw if anyone is looking for a game to max out the power envelope, im currently playing Resident Evil 2 Remake and it basically pegs the GPU at 700-800W, was surprised to see that! was also pleasantly surprised to see Control Resonant getting released, got it right away 🙂 games backlog is filling up very nicely with lots of awesome games im looking forward to! same way im looking forward to the AI bubble popping.... 😛

Thanks BIOS works fine, I tried BCLCK but my R3 hangs whenever I press ENTER key. There's no multiplier option in overclocking menu with i7 2760qm. Must be available only for XM cpu. Will try 970m & m3000m soon & let you know how it works (SG & PEG). It did not work with A12 stock bios btw, but IIRC that was a known caveat on the R3. I got 120GB SSD & WD black 750Go, both work fine in SATA3 mode.

My friend, the repair process has already been completed, and I have the MATS test report as the result. The card had a short circuit, and I already explained everything about it. My question is: based on the MATS report, how many VRAM chips need to be replaced?

I have news, very good ones, the P5000 arrived, i filed the radiator a bit more after i dremeled it yesterday, i put it in, and half-assembled the upper half of laptop. I got into Linux Mint 18.3 and it saw the gpu, with ./nvflash --list then i flashed the vbios just like DynamiteZerg did in 2018 and after the reboot it went straight into Windows10. After some fighting with NVCleaninstall i present you another example of P5000 working in Dell Precision M6800 I want to thank everyone for the provided help, will post some updates later after i reassemble the laptop fully and test it in some benchmarks.

Yes, you can use linux to flash the stock ES vbios. Overclocked ES vbios requires a hardware flasher. External keyboard is recommended yes.

from the second picture, looks like some trace is broken. always use ipa to make the pcb and trace more visible. if u can make a better picture with ipa on it...

The short circuit that happened on the MXM card has been fixed. But a short occurred on the 1.3-volt rail that powers the VRAM, which caused some of the VRAM modules to malfunction. I tested it using MATS. This is the result I got. Can someone tell me how many VRAM chips need to be replaced?

Another issue with rtx 3080 The screw connecting the modded vapor chamber heatsink to the adapter was installed without the size-reducing nut, which caused the screw to be the wrong size. Of course, the screw scratched the PCB and caused a short circuit on the GPU. Therefore, I strongly recommend always installing the nut and making sure it is properly in place before tightening the screw.

What is the termal pads layout to support your vapour chamber heatsink ? You can put numbers only on the vrams , mosfets and coils ?

All p870 laptops support 0.3b MXM gpu but with clevo subveyndor Vbios

Hi, this is my first post here. I have an Alienware 17 R1 (Ranger) laptop. It currently has the AMD R9 m290x / 8970m graphics card and the 1080p 60hz matte screen. I want to upgrade the graphics card to a NVIDIA GTX 980m 8GB. 1st question - Is buying from AliExpress okay? Have people had good or bad experiences buying MXM GPUs from there? Should I get it from somewhere else? 2nd question - Is there a particular variant of the 980m that is known to work with the 17 R1 laptop? Or is any fine. 3rd question - Should I just spend a bit more to get the GTX 1060 6GB? I don't really wanna spend more than $200 AUD on the card. There is a good AliExpress sale coming up in a few days that I want to take advantage of. Thank you!

to flash the ES bios for P5000? doesnt linux mint 18.3 with nvflash work? or for the overclocking? Thank you i will definietly do that, i do need to connect external keyboard for that correct?

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I'm planning to get a higher CFM one. Will be done in 2 weeks.

https://github.com/JadeRover/Nvidia-vBIOS-Clock-Power-Tweaker/releases It is pretty self explanatory, if you have any questions don't hesitate. you need CH341a bios programmer with 1.8v add-on module ! Also I recommend you half assemble the laptop (leave the keyboard + keyboard deck removed) to have easy access to the MXM gpu during flashing and testing, making sure the custom vbios works before assembling the laptop entirely.

Modifying the standard fan for the P570WM is a hassle. It would be a great help if you could sell me one. Of course, I will pay.