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I've just pressed the buy button on a returned Gram 17 Pro at Amazon UK which was almost 25% off the current inflated price and slightly below the brand new price of two months ago. There was an even cheaper returned model a few weeks ago but I was away on holiday. I will be checking if this two fan gram 17 can match the performance and quietness of my gram 14 with the same 255H CPU. The single fan gram 17 failed this test and was returned to LG (a slow process but I got my money back).

Harve Presnell - They call the wind Maria I still maintain that the ONLY musical Men are allowed to kinda like is Paint your Wagon : Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood 1969 film.

Quite right, the fans location prevents MXM 3.1b cards from being able to fit traditionally. I may have to go the MXM to PCIe route or something more extreme if I want to keep using the platform. Finding a decent 1:1 component transplant doesnt seem to exist though :(

No GTX1080 from Clevo will fit in there. That said, I would recommend the RTX3070 or something similar! Unfortunately, there is so little space that only other manufacturers are using new graphics chips! I don't have any good ideas yet...

or flash unlocked bios and setup Vigeo graphics in SG mode, because if you use factory bios, first will be PEG mode and without correct Vbios laptop would give 8 beeps

Try flash Dell VBIOS

I have a T14 for work, it mostly gets the job done fairly well.

Oh well, there are other routes I can go also. either way still would love to see what you come up with :)

this looks fantastic, great work!

Hello, what should we do to get the maximum of 4Ghz thru grub variables?

I’ve made a cooling that, at least by initial testing, can cool the extra Watts 🙂

It does 🙂 It does indeed 🙂

This is work in progress, but so far I’m happy with the results 😄 The heatsink: https://imgur.com/a/v2gq5dB The fans and their electronics: https://imgur.com/a/mr88Xgn That’s it for now.

That's nice! Please, let us know if everything goes well and you're able to get a larger capacity (suppose 16GB) running stably at 2933.

I got one stick of 4G 3200Mhz to run at 2933Mhz. I tested it and it is stable, after changing max ram frequency variable to 2933Mhz thanks to SREP_UMAF USB, the laptop refuses to boot once, then it boots okay (happens for each max ram frequency edit I think). Just to be safe, I added +35mv to system agent (integrated memory controller) in throttle stop. From SREP, in pre boot environment, it is also possible to add some voltage to uncore (same as system agent, it will add voltage to the integrated memory controller = more stability). I placed my stick in one of the easy access slots behind the access hatch, unfortunately, as of right now I only have one stick of >2666Mhz DDR4. I will try to make some XMP profiles for my 2666Mhz sticks so they can run at 2933Mhz or so.

Awesome topic! I’m definitely going to try these mods on my 7720 with the Xeon E3-1535M v6. I’m really interested in the RAM overclocking and RAM SPD writing, do you think it’s possible to push the memory beyond 2666MHz stably? Anyway, I’ll be patiently waiting for the full guide. Keep up the amazing work!

"The Land of the Free". Soon almost gone. Now you see the country being more and more like China. What next from the US lawmakers(legislators)? What a sad direction. Freedom At Stake😒. Now all your privacy/data is collected in the government's servers. Yep, same servers paid by your tax bill. On top you'll have to pay more for consumer hardware due the governments need to store everything of your privacy to control you... Nineteen Eighty-Four is more true than ever. Our beloved hardware/computers has become a huge threat for the humanity (in allways). The US wants to implement an age verification system integrated into the operating system That era of freedom is nearing its end... Now, there's a proposed law in the US that aims to integrate age verification systems directly into operating systems. Exactly as nvidia hoped..... GPU Sales On A Major German Retailer Shows RTX 5080 Is Now The Most Popular GPU In NVIDIA RTX 50 Series

I'll let you know when I'm ready! :-) Well, you can't do much with that...

Some doomy Sabbath riffery: https://belzebong.bandcamp.com/album/the-end-is-high

Please can I get some assistance, where am I placing the 1 or 2 r005 resistors, I have included the photos of the card, i assume it's one over each 220 resistor closest to the cards bigger copper traces

Here is what I use. Save it as Boot-to-BIOS.cmd (or whatever you want) and run as admin. I added it to my right-click context menu using File Menu Tools. Very handy when you plan to reboot and enter the BIOS to make setting changes. @echo off shutdown /fw /r /t 0

I'd love to see it when it is complete! I still have my P750ZM > DM-G running a 9700F but the 1080 MXM @ 180w is failing so I was considering what to do with what I have left.

Just wanted to get opinions on what I should do. Warranty is up in April. Started off a few days ago, turned laptop on started a game and I was stuck at 45w on the gpu. Normally it runs at the 175w mark. CPU due to undervolt and whatnot only hits about 100w max. I have 2 330w adapters same results. Noticed battery won’t charge above 9% 6555mv. Battery is also in excellent health I ran the whole diagnostics deal in the bios. I also got 4 red flashes followed by 1 solid blue. While doing this unplugged the battery and waited for a bit. That still didn’t fix it. I left it charging for about a half an hour and all of the sudden it jumped from 9% to 100% with 76000ish mv. so far it is working normally but the laptop often hangs at 93% charge even while not doing anything. Has always said charging in windows. any suggestions? Idk if Dell would even do anything. Cheers!

Hi guys, I have some free time on my hands and I just wanted to share some of the mods I'm going to do to my precision 7720. I will write a complete guide once I am satisfied on the overall mods. Currently I have a i7-6820HQ motherboard that I will soon replace with a i7-7920HQ motherboard. In the meantime, I have flashed a modified v1.15 bios (enables undervolting) using the dell bios container method here, using version v1.40 as a base : GitHub - vuquangtrong/Dell-PFS-BIOS-Assembler: A script to combine BIOS entries into executable Dell Firmware Update Utilities I also used this smokeless_UMAF beta tool on a USB found here : Smokeless_UMAF/UMAF_BETA.zip at main · DavidS95/Smokeless_UMAF · GitHub to enable some hidden options in the BIOS : we have access to : - CPU overclocking (up to the limits of your cpu, my 6820hq went from 3.2 Ghz all core -> 3.6Ghz all core) - RAM overclocking - RAM SPD writing (= we can write custom XMP profiles to non XMP ram) - Intel ME region flash allowed (= we can flash custom ME region with overclocking BCLK profile) Here is my 6820hq running with a 102.7 ish MHz BCLK, going over this results in an instant crash due to intel limitation = need to investigate : Resulting in a ~100Mhz boost compare to non OC BCLK. 3.600Ghz -> 3.690Ghz More to come !