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thats how i roll 😄 nah man, 100% hands off. WVPII totally provides peace of mind, let it run in the background and do its thing until an alarm gets triggered 🙂

I absolutely love the aesthetic of the C26, but it is too small for anything I would purpose it for. If it were large enough for a 360 AIO and full size 5080/5090 I would want one. I understand you are aiming for travel portability and that would make it too big. At the end of the day, just about anything you could build would be much better than a laptop. If you are traveling by car most of the time something like that should be fine. I can't see traveling frequently by air with something like the C26 plus monitor, keyboard and mouse, but it might work. I think I am going to be going the Lian Li A3 black all mesh with wood front route with the B850MPOWER and 3070 FTW3. Then I can use my 360 AIO inside of it. The side mount bracket for 120mm fans should really help keep heavily overclocked DDR5 thermals from going bonkers. The bracket seems to be ideally placed to blow directly on the memory. A friend at oc.net loaned me his TG delid tool and heater so I will likely delid the 270K Plus sometime before the end of next weekend. I purchased a Mycro Pro LGA1851 direct die block. This 270K Plus runs freakishly cool. I'm astonished by that and it technically does not need to be delidded running the clocks and voltage I am currently running, but I am gonig to do it anyway just because it will be better and give me more clock/voltage headroom. If I were going to run it the way I am using it now forever there would be no valid reason or benefit to delid it. Cinebench core max is like 83°C. This CPU would be perfect inside of a mobile platform with a chunky chassis for folks that still like them.

I have this Jonsbo Z20 on the shelf, but I'm going to go with the Mechanic Master C26 for the SFF portable 2026 project. Z20 = ~20.1lL vs the C26 = 13.2l. Both support mATX.The C26 doesn't support an AIO but I was going to go with the Thermalright AXP-120-X67 I have brand new on my shelf anyhow or a max height ~130mm air cooler if needed. C26 supports up to ~310mm length GPU so the GB WF OC SFF 5080 should fit as it is exactly the length of the FE edition (304mm) and ~2.5 slots wide (closer to 2 than 2.5). Specs: MC 7500X3D + Asrock B850M Combo deal MC Open box GB 5080 SFF Corsair SF1000 Samsung 990 Pro 2TB KB 2x24GB 8400 sticks Thermalright AXP-120-X67 Noctua NF-A9 x4 Noctua NF-A12x25 G2 PWM Sx2-PP Mechanic Master C26 Then it comes down to the C26 or Z20 The downsize from 20.2L to 13.1L is pretty massive..... C26 weighs 6.6lbs (3kg) vs the Z20 11lbs (5.5kg)....again in the land of portability pretty massive The entire buildout in the C26 will weigh right around the Alienware 18 + PSU or a hair less actually and more importantly open up carrying case room for wireless KB/M and a 18-23" portable display and be much quieter under load vs any gaming laptop out there along with being able to tune every component with no restrictions. This type of build allows a 5090FE to slot right in but with a 1080p or 1440p 18-23" portable display that is overkill. The idea is lock in 120-165hz solid fps on the go\ as quiet as possible. This Windforce sff 5080 is much quieter under load than my Vanguard 5090. I'll probably end up with a Noctua NF-A12 on whatever cooler ends up end game on the CPU. I don't think a tuned 7500X3D will hold back a 5080 especially at 1440p, but if I do find it is a bottleneck, I will shift my 9800X3D into it and then sort out my desktop core system again. C26: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's that positivity!! 🤣 Good set of baseline data though to see how it fares over the coming months/year. Are you going to routinely test the connection with a firm push check from time to time or leave it completely alone and see how the integrity potentially gives up the ghost? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Curious to see your results with the A die swapped in and hopefully the warranty extension can be applied to really bring it home. There is always the chance of a poor IMC even on a laptop unit so fingers crossed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember to pre-order your ROG 20th edition bundle to get the 20th edition 5090 Astral since it isn't being offered stand alone for only $5499.99...... "Only" $10,349.96 or $11k+ after tax.... https://eshop.asus.com/us/90yv0nf3-mvaa00-rog-astral-rtx5090-p32g-edition-20.html Don't forget you still need a CPU, memory and storage too.... might as push for a $15k build at this point....

Happy to hear from you @Daedalus! Truuue, mine is also going faster (booting, lauching app, etc). Yep! I was thinking about doing a modded heatsink with a copper plate (5mm), and then soldering the stock copper heatpipes on it , for better cooling on these type B cards. exactly, with the DC being a rare pokemon, i was also thinking about installing a new standard eDP screen on my 8570w, but i know its still not fully resolved on the forum (modded cable vs nvidia drivers vs screen whitelist vs etc, ahah), and then go for and test the newest RTX cards.

Both the Intel integrated graphics and the internal GPU should be disabled. Run the benchmark on an external monitor to get the best possible performance.

For at most 11 years I didn't buy myself a new laptop of any vendor because of the chiclet keyboard or non-hotswappable battery or both. Well, the urge of buying a small and lightweight device overweight the dissatisfaction. I didn't want to buy any of the Dell laptops specifically as I had horrible impressions of their consumer-tier series I used to see in models produced in models from 2000s. Still consider the Dell Inspiron 1300 an etalon though. So I took the risk and after a long chatter with the seller, I got the subject device. Not a Ryzen 7 based one but Ryzen 5 works fairly well for me. Of course, Windows 11 on 8 GB is a disaster and I intended to replace the bundled RAM for two sticks of 32 GB, which I did. Just a pair of Microns. Coming back to the keyboard, I bought this laptop as a replacement for my Dell Latitude 5179 2-in-1. I couldn't believe that Dell didn't screw up the keyboard per tactile experience and it felt even slightly better than the Latitude 5179 one. But making the right Ctrl key the Copilot key? Uh, that's the global trend. That sucks. Lack of 8P8C connector as well. Battery wise, 5 hours from full charge under mixed workload with some debugging in Visual Studio 2026 is a decent result for this thin thing. Wish it had USB4 so I could connect a more interesting dGPU to put the integrated graphics aside. 🤣 Successors to this laptop have RAM soldered to the board which is a crime. Unless I missed some model that is >=15" in size and may lack 2-in-1 form factor. On the peripherals, I had bought Dell PN7522W active pen which was claimed to be incompatible with this laptop. Yet it works just fine. But be careful when picking a place where to hold it against the chassis: if you do it by right hand, there is a magnetic sensor used to detect if the lid was closed. Instead, attach it by right hand of the screen part. Also there is no need to have Bluetooth connected all the time if you don't use the top button on it.

See now the problem with it being on SG mode is that games will try to launch with the intel gpu

So I was able to get it to work when I enabled SG

ok so i figured since im having so much fun with RE Requiem and it draws an insane amount of wattage ill test my current GPU cable connection thoroughly and provide you the summary for comparison / reference sake. so total of 5 gaming sessions recorded with HWInfo64, threw out all data points below 95% gpu core load and anything below 600W for both total gpu power, as well as 12VHPWR only. that left me with approx. 7.5h of data with a monitoring frequency of 1s (27,215 data points total). the game was maxed out with RT and PT at 4K, no FG and DLSS set to Quality. as mentioned before im rocking the matrix vbios as a daily driver with a 24/7 stable OC of 34Gbps vRAM and +130 on the core, that gives me gaming clocks in the range of approx. 3060 Mhz +/- 30. ambient temps are currently quite high, were talking about 27-28C in my little "dad corner" 😄 gpu core is in the range of 68-73C under load, vRAM hotspot a tad higher at 70-76C and GPU hotspot approx. 85C on avg. with short spikes up to 93-94C (top 10% are in the range of 88-90C). FPS avg 102.9 1%% low 72.4 0.1% low 67.8 Total GPU Power avg 703W 10% high 761W 1% high 775W MAX 799W 12VHPWR Power avg 688W 10% high 744W 1% high 753W MAX 758W (interesting to see that as 12VHPWR wattage approaches the vbios limit at 800W, the gap to the total gpu power widens, thus the PCIe slot starts to draw more and more power, on avg. only 15W but the max spike is at 41W). Max Delta Current across 6 pins avg 1.06 A 10% high 1.99 A 1 % high 2.57 A MAX 3.3 A (stock setting for alarm in WVPII software is 4A) Max Delta Current across 6 pins (%) avg +11% 10% high +22% 1% high +29% MAX +35% (stock setting for alarm in WVPII software is +40%) this is how it should be, with even the absolute max individual data points still below the alarm threshold (which only comes into play if you get repeated, sequential limit breaches in a row, so a single data point spike aint enough to trigger it). this will provide a nice baseline once this cable inevitably gives out on me an ill need to test a fresh install / cable to compare 😄

did you try an older driver? it most likely is a edid issue , I haven't tried recently on my m15x to try my fix.

Okay so I tested with an hdmi cable on another screen and it outputs a screen after the driver is installed just for some reason on the laptops screen it stays black. I have been trying to use ChatGPT to help me and it claims it is the internal LVDS output

that's weird, I have that issue on M15x with 980m but never had that issue on M17xR3 using 980m/m3000m. try a driver older than the 550.xx series

Yeah I think it is full of dust since AGA sitting on this rug that shoots off hair like crazy. Need to clean it.

The M6800 has 2 different fans for the GPU. 5.6 CFM and 10.3 CFM. I had a spare 10.3 lying around, a free upgrade from the 5.6 CFM.

i had my doubts cause AI said yes and sometimes no. and i needed to order one and get it by monday but all had delivery to august i guess comes from china in amazon. thanks

Your CPU score is normal now. However, your GPU score is low. I remember you previously scored around 30K with it.

I tried using a M6800 fan in the M6700. They are physically similar enough to fit, and the connector physically fits into the motherboard, but Dell changed the pinout, so the M6800 fan won't operate in the M6700. This to say, I would not expect it to work just because they look the same.

Interesting because during the install I keep getting a black screen with nvinstall when the screen changes to apply the display driver

any driver. use nvcleaninstall to add hardware support to the official driver

I have a 880M running on my M17xR1. Single GPU. It does ocnflict with the internal hd audio, need to see if swapping the driver install order fixes white screen issue like on M17xR3. I think 780M should work & 680m without the hd audio conflict. You can reusethe heatsinks, I think the SLI cable form fermi to maxwell is the same but 260M is different

Hey what driver version were you able to get the work for the 980m and what did you modify on it

Recently, I got a good deal on an m17x r1. It has a t9600, and dual 260Ms, but one of the games I'd like to play on it has Kepler cards as its minimum. What's the best gen of gpus I can put in this thing? From poking around here, it seems like someone's gotten dual 670MXs running on one, and the r2 seems to have a fair amount of compatibility with newer cards, but I do want to see if I can push it a bit, say with a maxwell card. Also, will the old SLI bridge work on newer cards? Thermals, or heatsink compatibility aren't a concern for me either, I have a set of two MXM heatsinks from a laptop model I know can take maxwell cards I know I can modify to work with this laptop, and i figure i can get around what seems to be the dedicated fan controller chip's incompatibility with new cards thermal reporting by just setting a static curve, or making some other system that reads temps from the cards and adjusts the fans.

Not my best run but just checking out what CPU bump does. I can try and get a better run after getting the RAM speed up.

just as the tile says are the m4600 fans and m4800 fan compatible meaning i could use the m4800 in the m4600.? they look just like the same.

Hello I want to buy a Clevo P775. I'm located in Europe. No CPU, no heatsinks, no GPU, no RAM. Just the laptop itself. I'm changing because I suspect some SMBus problem with the GPU side only. Like every GPU is stuck at 40C temperature meanwhile the the GPU-Z readings are accurate.