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@JadeRover @Aaron44126 Thanks for your help 🙂 I managed to do it with a 970 driver 😄

If you see the SG option then you must already have the unlocked BIOS so you're most of the way there already. If you have unlocked A11 then I would suggest to flash the unlocked A12 as that's what most of us used for this upgrade. Do you have the GPU in the master MXM slot? I don't think it will work in the secondary slot with no other GPU in the master. The master slot is the one of the left when looking down at the laptop with the palmrest removed. It has the shorter heatsink. If the card still isn't recognised then it's possible that the card is dead, or the MXM slot. If you get it to recognise as the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter then all you need to do is install the driver. Most people use NVCleanInstall these days as you don't have to modify the inf. I've never used this program before.

I always make things more complicated than they aught to be, like using 3x PSU's for each 8-pin on the bottom shelf, an ITX system since HEDT has been more or less dead to me since the X58 days (though Im sure there were options since, poor decisions didnt allow them to be obtainable) so anything beyond ITX or cheap laptops like the M4600 were simply not even considered. Then naturally a UT45 make perfect sense in my hodgepodge of parts. Since the 5800X3D sips power and is locked a cheap Thermalright PA120SE does fine for gaming though if I go the 9800X3D route I could definitely see a second UT45 in my future. During the era where I surfed OCN AIO's were still called CLC's mostly targeted at ITX users who later got to deal with the pumps dying or tubes coming undone and leaking over everything, I never considered CLC's since they were considered "Cheap Low Cost". Anyways it feels like I have been typing this post for a week now. I was making progress when perplexity recommended changing the power plan in Windows. Ever since then I have not been able to get the EVC2SE to change the register for the IOUT Gain so its stuck at 683 which is the default. I tried a couple of fixes but for the evening I am going to call it a night. Core: 3450 Mem: 2764 Now my clocks are back to stock and until I figure it out, I cant get them past 2850 in Steel Nomad, a far cry from 3450. Was working on getting 3450 sure stable before moving on to 3500 then seeing what I could do about the memory. With a 16c ambient, 21c idle, and 30c peak load temperature I feel like I still have some performance to get out of the 7900 XTX. Hot spot was "bad" from a differential standpoint, 30c at its peak so it peaked at 60c. Still well within margin for benching (105c throttle). Since it wasnt working before, I tore down the loop and took apart the GPU to reflow the solder. Worked great after that. I also checked on the LM application and all was well on that front as well.

Anyone swap a 7750 GPU into a 7550? Specifically the 110W variants of the RTX4/5000 series?

Hello, the RX 5500 XT has 4 DP ports, so DP on port D too. It should work with your laptop since it accepts eDP for port D. Does the RX 5500 XT have the backlight pins enabled? Any diagrams of the MXM card? Is your card 8gb or 4gb?

Addendum to 4k response as I don't think I gave you enough data for reference (sorry): Oh and zero thermal throttling anywhere and CPU utilization on any of the cores at any given time is never more than 50-60% using this approach which is designed to allow you to stress the GPU to 100% load really taking the CPU out of the equation. If Blizzard could figure out a way to load balance player physics across a true multicore design versus still really stuck in a single threaded model it would work wonders. One of the reasons I threw FO76 in the mix was to see if it was the same, but you can clearly see the uplift from JEDEC to 6400 Tuned and 8800 Tuned which might negate some of the X3D potential blame in WoW. -------------------------- Here's a screen shot I took of my exact chosen place to benchmark in Tazevesh so I know exactly how to position my toon and distances for future benchmarking on the 265k and you can see all the relevant data. Neither the 5090 or 9800X3D are overclocked for these tests on purpose to control all variables at stock. I plan on going back in and testing this exact same spot after the Midnight patch on Tuesday to see if anything has changed. If you want to benchmark here, make sure to get your toon and camera angles the exact same. You know you have it right when you have the small cat pat in and out in the lower, right corner. GPU at 100% CPU usage 16% (of course based on 8 cores, but you get the idea it is low) Temps are low on both even with the GPU fully maxed and 500w+ but the Vanguard Heatsink is ridiculously good along with the Suprims. Fans are at their lowest speed (33%) on auto. Voltage at only 1.085 (max of 1.125v).

Every so often I'll pick up tools and tool accessories. Figured this time I wanted to pick up a slightly smaller bit of kit for my "go bag". Picked up the impact driver and 3/8" impact wrench from Wally World as they tested pretty well especially for the price, and later on might grab the ratchets.

Really liking MX Linux. I am glad that I decided to give this distro a go. I've got all of my Windoze applications working in Winboat. Micro$lop PowerBI, Excel, Word, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, etc. Windoze is continuing on the path of become irrelevant by all measurements.

Really liking MX Linux. I am glad that I decided to give this distro a go. I've got all of my Windoze applications working in Winboat. Micro$lop PowerBI, Excel, Word, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, etc. Windoze is continuing on the path of become irrelevant.

I'll retest at 1440p Ultra just to see if memory (and CPU) comes more into play removing player physics as a constraint as we both know tanks GPU utilization quickly and when pushed to 100% GPU utilization even on a 5090 does memory settings on AM5/X3D make any difference because at 4k it means nothing even at JEDEC which was surprising. It could be with zero player physics at play, WoW can sit in the cache comfortably but with raids, PVP, city the cache exhausts pretty quickly. I could swap in this 9600x I have here in my ITX setup and test that theory. I haven't tested the 265k yet. I am just wrapping up dialing in memory tuning at G2 8600 on the test bench and then will OC dial in once this new AIO comes in on Thursday. This is my ghetto current memory tuning setup..... I have some custom brackets coming in to set up an adjustable 140mm fan over the DDR5 memory (this will carry forward regardless of what CPU/MB is installed) along with ordering a singular Silent Wings 140mm Pro fan for it for two tiered speed adjust-ability. Apparently the new king of AIOs is the Lian Li Galahad II Lite which in several reviews is the top dog and for ~$100 so I ordered one. It even beats down their former Trinity Performance model at a much cheaper cost, easier hook up and better designed pump. I ordered one of these to slap on the test bench with the 265k and if I like what I see, I'll move it into my case too replacing the AC LF II 420 that's in there now along with the 265k after my DDR5 fan parts and WV2 arrive but want everything tuned up and ready to go before the transplant.

Been checking out Skyrim curated modlists as I had a hankering to go back to Skyrim for a bit (Lorerim, GTS, etc..) some of them are a bit. ehh.. too over the top in the "looks" department. Not that I'm opposed just seems unserious and juvenile for my taste.. too distracting. But currently doing a playthrough of Nordic Souls PBR edition and it's just the right amount of changing it enough to be different and fresh without going overboard and adding a bit extra challenge. It's kind of amazing how much just making combat and movement feel like they have more weight and impact makes the game better. I also enjoyed Gate to Sovngarde and Lorerim was also pretty good but took forever to load and was crashing a bit too much. I think no end of tweaks and pagefile settings can truly make any heavily modded Skyrim 100% stable. I enjoyed the challenge in GTS, but I have to admit the fast travel restrictions and constant attention to the survival elements just became more tedious than challenging after the novelty wore off. It just added the extra inventory management of carrying around travel packs, camping and food at the end of it all. Meh.. Nordic Souls also includes Beyond Skyrim: Bruma and Wyrmstooth both of which I hadn't experienced so those are new to me. Having some fun revisiting it. I'll probably just do a finally finish it new run through BG3 after at some point

Any difference at 1600p Ultra? Have you tested the 265K with WoW to see if the same holds true? Is this bottleneck usually observable if neither the CPU or GPU are thermal throttling but also not at maxed utilization (or no P-cores at max turbo clocks)? I have seen that happen often on the Legion 9i G10 with memory capped at 5200 CL38.

It took awhile, but I'm back. The E-Port Plus with the blue USB ports came in, and after a number of updates, including Windows and the Dell Display and Peripheral Manager, Display Settings finally shows that I'm at 3840 x 2160 @ 59.997 Hz, which allows it to work with my Precision 7290 and KVM.

I decided to purchase Zbook Fury 15 G7 I7-10850H 32gb ram ddr4 1TB Nvme t2000 max-q 15.6 IPS 400nit 72% NTSC 420€

Hey @GuitarG can you share the pinout for the JST lead? or which pins you picked up +5v & gnd in the machine? I was thinking using USB port to feed (probably a bad idea) I now have a JST GH Extender and another JST GH splitter and a "spare" 8570W heatsink to graft onto my 8770 "MXM-B" plate and sit secondary fan in DVD bay. One thing ive been looking for is the Tach and speed pinout for the Sunon fans we have in HP kit, Datasheets seem to be difficult to find even when i have the part number. Finally got a response back from HP re: CPU fan header, they confirmed my theory and advise not running dual fans of that jst cpu socket, only fan control and tach, but run the 5v feed elsewhere (assume USB +ve rail or DVD pin) so only two pins go to header. Can anyone share what DVD pin I pickup from or where it should be soldered to?

Here’s what the listing photo looked like and the dude was asking 280+40 for shipping. I lowballed and gave him an offer for 100$ and I was actually surprised that he accepted it.

Hi yall, long time no see, I managed to snag a 7550 lately for 100$. No ssd no ram, keyboard ripped out, however i already had the ram and a SSD, so the only thing i had to replace was thankfully the busted keyboard. its an i9 configuration with the T2000 and the dci-P3 calibrated 1080p display which looks amazing. however since before I originally got it I’ve been rolling around the idea of upgrading it to the max spec GPU an RTX 5000 16GB. However between the 7750 and 7550 there’s two different sku’s for each, a 80(90)Watt “MaxQ” version that’s ment for the 7550, and a 110watt version ment for the 7750. I just so happened to snag a cheap rtx 5000 on Friday and it’s the 7750 110W version. Based on overlaying images at various opacities it looks like I may need to trim a little bit of the palm rest in order to add extra cooling to the mosfets since it’s so much longer than a typical card they wouldn’t be in contact with the heatsink. if anyone has done this kind of swap before precision 17” GPU -> 15(16”) please let me know if there’s any other potential incompatibilities I should be aware of like bios locks. But as far as I know the 7550 version (maxQ) also works in the 7750 and they both share the same bios there’s no reason as to why it wouldn’t recognize and boot with the 17” card. also to add I’m switching from the “P” heatsink over to the “E” style heat sink since said heatsink has a much bigger cutout(?) for the larger die of the rtx4000+ gpu’s. attached are some photos of the wonderful thing.

Damn straight

yeah, not understand me wrong, i still use my 8570P with 3840HQ for photoshop n sometimes sm0l video editing so i know why saying "its slow" 😄 n thx, lets make this old machine to a AI PC 😄

Well the CPU had enough cores/threads when it came out and I don't see that things have changed that much with regards to video editing requirements. Unless maybe people insist on editing 4K/8K video. And yes there has been tests done on Windows 10 with an mPCIe form factor Google Coral TPU in the 1/2PP (MC) slot, and an M.2 form factor one with an adapter in the ExpressCard/54 slot. See the newer comments at the post below: https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/precision-mobile-workstations/dell-precision-m6800-slot-motherboard-12mc-pp/647f7f3ff4ccf8a8dedb7309

sure is nice to see whats possible, but the CPU is pain in the a.... for video/photo editing bcs not enough threads, for gaming still an option, bcs most games not use more then 8 threads(some does n u will see at the min fps, but for mobile still ok). n maybe u should try 1333MHz mem, maybe the IMC will run with 64GB then. btw. someone tried a NPU in the m6800 yet? seen some modules with mPCIe standard, n some xtra TOPs can be useful in some cases.

Whether there's a need for it or not is kind of irrelevant, as most of the mods here aren't exactly necessary. I thought it was all about just seeing what was possible? And 16GB is not enough for a lot of people who run mobile workstations, heck the M6800 is literally meant for photo and video editing as part of its reason for even existing.

Lately came across 2 Thinkpads at interesting prices, both landed on my table. Nice to have something new to look at, and re-awake my humble skills in os installation \ setup \ tweaking etc, long time not done anything in that dept. Set to replace 2 ageing (10+ years) win 8.1 laptops. E14 gen5, Ryzen 3, 300 nits\45%, 16\250 GB, w11 pro. No power champion but very capable for all light tasks, browsing, streaming, music etc. SH but never used, only 200 usd. P14s gen5, Ryzen 7, 400 nits\100%, 16\1 TB, key light, fingerprint, w10 iot ltsc. Nice machinery for 1000 usd (nearly 50% off, Lenovo webshop). Both: cool & silent (normal \ light use), excellent keyboard, build quality feels good, lightweight, great battery times, fast charging.

I don't have the laptop yet. Still thinking about g6 with 9880h vs G7 10850. G7 is locked for under bolting for sure. If it's still doable with G6 I will swing to G6, but if not I will take G7.

nah n no need for, 16GB is more then enough for everything except vid/photo editing... even when u put a RTX5000 in it n a 4k display n playing maxed out + RT in games, never 16GB will be the limiting part in it(but the CPU will be). more important is mem speed n timing, 1866 should be the minimum, 2133 the optimum... atm i searching for 2133 modules n will give thaiphoon burner a try to set 2400MHz...