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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)? Yup, US as of today even use their citizens money to buy stakes in (tech) companies. Equal as old Soviet/Russia where the state-controlled cooperatives is run by the citizens tax money. What a sad direction. And it will probably be worse. Much worse! Freedom At Stake😒. Now all your privacy/data is collected in the government's servers. Yep, the same servers paid by your tax bill. On top you have to pay more for consumer hardware due the governments and their partners need to store more everything of your privacy to control you... Nineteen Eighty-Four is more valid 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 !

Hey! I had a Zotac 1070 from the VR Magnus , it was a standard MXM 3.0B format. I had a trouble with it in a Clevo P377SM3. The Zotac MXM cards have a lot of difference compared to (even a chinese) regular MXM card. My problem was that the Zotac card readed the GPU temp differently internally,so in my case the laptop was shutting off due to thermal warning(it had screen and everything but it force shut down after 1min). So id say it can be a difference in the card also .

OpenAI bursts its own AI bubble: from $1.4 trillion in investment to just $600 billion by 2030 OpenAI is at a slight crossroads, having decided to recalibrate its financial narrative after only a few months in which it had projected staggering figures... The AI Agent Hype Is Real. The Productivity Gains Aren’t They can shop, book flights, and control your apps—at least in theory. In practice, today’s AI agents are slow, error-prone, and riddled with privacy trade-offs. Here's a look at what they are, and what they can and can't yet do. Is zero more than nothing bro @Mr. Fox?🧐 AI boosted US economy by 'basically zero' in 2025, says Goldman Sachs chief economist

Grab it before its too late😁 Remember its an limited edition. MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z GPUs listed on eBay for almost $27,000 — limited edition graphics card demands 500% premium from resellers As you can see... The world is filled with stupids. I'm sure there is some out ther that are willing to pay $27K for the Lightning.

Not sure if it'd work on other mobos, but i bet there is a generic tool out in the wild somewhere. What happened to memory prices? Chip shortage? I've a brand new unopened 2x16gb Trident Z5 6000mhz rgb kit, and feel extremely wealthy! 🤣

Afte debloating windows some more, and switching of memory integrity - plus using EPP 220 (with the old tiger lake that was too slow) - I'm now around 6.2% battery use per hour with 55% display brightness which is equivalent to 85% on my old Gram (though likely when it was new more 70% - IPS get darker over years of usage) - and around 4.5% at night with 15% display brightness. 16-18 hours of real world use time. Yeah Panther lake likely can still do it quite a bit better - as it can get much more work done at very low power states. The only slow down with pretty tough restrictions is app launch. Launching a bigger program takes 2-3 seconds longer - however sustained demanding tasks are just as fast as without power restrictions - it just takes some time for the CPU to ramp up. The advantage is even surfing the web, editing texts, C10 package states of 60-70%. Meaning 60-70% of the CPU cores are fully switched off. The key was making the ramp up slow - otherwise Windows very often spikes up power. Panther lake seems to be great with higher EPP values in still just sipping power. So instead of 1-1.5w power usage for the package with those light tasks, it can do them with 0.5-1w for package. Meaning with panter lake you don't even need to debloat that much - just set high EPP and get great battery runtimes. Getting runtimes longer will after panter lake mainly be possible by better displays - and that's getting tough with the 2026 generation OLEDs already very power efficient and during daytime easily beating IPS. I also got rid of most LG tools. I think it's better to use intel for driver updates, and so far LG hasn't pushed a bios. So I disabled the LG services and run them only on demand, only intel update manager and windows update manager are allowed to run. And fan setting I just do via throttlestop/windows power plan. Yeah no AI fan mode, but the old ones all available and it just is more efficient. I have basically any hidden setting on the power plans enabled via registry - which helped a bit too. Oh and the battery now has 81wh capacity - that's 4wh more than claimed. But we all know the 80wh to 77wh was just a change as often LG batteries didn't reach full capacity. Seems to be a bit luck of draw.

I can only agree with some of the previous speakers. Unfortunately, genuine DTRs are completely extinct these days. This has mainly to do with Nvidia's contracts. I know from reliable sources that they want to control everything and only tolerate soldered variants, especially for laptops. The only exception Nvidia makes is for industrial devices and military technology. Clevo was really the last major milestone in terms of BIOS and MXM standards. I had the ideas for my P870xx projects years ago because Clevo was still doing real high-end development with the greatest possible flexibility. I would like to thank the people in the forum for their support. I hope my desktop extension will be fully operational soon.

niiice, nifty lil tool. would it work on other mobos as well? or asrock specific? wtf 😮 i wonder how many IMCs he had to bin for that RAM speed (and how stable it is).

Yeah, got $2900 for it which is about $500 more than I paid a year ago. 1440p was definitely holding it back. For now I will just run my desktop as iGPU only which works fine for what I am actually using it for. All that I ended up using on the Vcolor kit was 8400 C40 as beyond that was unstable and I could not pinpoint what was causing the issue. iGPU may be an issue now with the higher MT as well.

I wonder why he say please don't. Maybe he doesn't understand that the card might be modded/or uses a different vbios with higher TDP. It seems there are quality problem or a batch problems with MSI's 12V-2*6 cables/adapers. Several see the same after some time use with the yellow tip connector. The tiny trash will creap out from the connector on the GPU and from the connector on the PSU panel. So double trouble with double of trash😆 Several Users Report MSI’s Yellow-Tip 16-pin Connector Pushes Out Itself, Greatly Increasing Melting Risk After some time you'll see the yellow-tip smile at you😀 How dumb is it to make/design the popular Stealth cable design for some modern GPUs? @Mr. Fox🤔

Firstly, love your AW collection and upgrades. That is some serious dedication to the cause. You can use the extra drive slots for general storage but I believe the only way to have them directly linked to your OS drive would be to set the drives in RAID. This wouldn't be ideal as you will lose the NVME speeds. Although, I'm just looking at something called JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) and maybe this is what you're looking to do. It looks like it can combine different physical disks into one volume without using RAID.