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I managed to lay in a nice array of 500gb, 1tb and a few 2tb nvme drives, but I'm kicking myself for not jumping on a few 4tb drives last year. That was a good snag! You also managed to snag your 9070xt and 5070ti for damn good prices before the market went to poo too...... This is how I view it. I've locked down all the hardware I'm going to need to ride out this hardware Armageddon. If the 5090 wants to remain the top dog to 2028? I'm you're huckleberry. 🙂 Snagging a 1.125v Vanguard 5090 for $1971USD that turned out to be superior to both my Astral and Ventus and no coil whine is still the pinnacle of my hardware wins in a plethora of wins hunting down open box / refurb deals over the years. Getting to ride it into 2028? Priceless..... As for other hardware..... 9850X3D is a snoozefest. I'm not seeing the 9950X3D2 being anything magical unless they have somehow fixed that CCD0 to CCD1 latency issues for gaming. AM6 isn't launching till later this year or even early 2027 Novalake isn't launching till late 2026 or even early 2027 too Nvidia 6000 till 2028... AMD RDNA5 not till mid 2027 but I suspect late 2027 Intel basically cancelled their B770 so we don't know what they have planned for future desktop GPUs Basically team, settle in with your hardware and enjoy! There is nothing on my want list till Nova and potentially AM6 (I'm more excited for Nova than AM6 atm) and that's it..... 7600 is the threshold for >=6000 tier performance so you're good in that aspect especially being able to get those tight timings. Maybe dial in 6000 and 7600 and see which one gives you the better performance. While it isn't mind blowing on my end, 8000 dialed in > 6000 and 6400 dialed in across the board even if miniscule so I'm sticking with that. Just like there are Asus and Apple fan boys, there are Razer fan boys and you know some are going to buy this...... I'm a firm believer that someone's disposable income is theirs to buy whatever tickles their fancy, but I'm also silently judging hardcore based on my own biases and purchasing criteria 🤣 As with all things like this, I will seek out a Youtube video on it and live vicariously though that and I'm good....

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/260725/

PCWorld generally is not a good resource for useful technical information. I am not interested in the biased thoughts and personal opinions of their editors. I only care about what I think and seeing how many others share my opinions. It used to be a good source, but not for a long time. They do not allow readers to comment on their reviews and articles, which delegitimizes them in my opinion. I think any media outlet that does not allow readers to comment to support or rebut has an agenda of some sort and they want to control the narrative. I posted my thoughts on the TweakTown article yesterday.

what about results of benchmarks ?

After repasting I now get constant fully loaded power use slightly above 40watts. Huge change. LG had put enourmous amount of paste onto the CPU. Now good point about that way is - it will never pump out as much as they put, bad think is performance. I went with Durnaut by Thermal Grizzly as this is considered to be the most durable paste on the market right now (except some funky Chinese ones where however you never know if you get what you order...) with great performance. Actually repasted my 2021 lg Gram - it was basically plain metal - everything of the Arctic MX5 pumped out. I guess that's quite common on grams with the thin case and thereby varying pressure on the heatpipe all the time. Not sure about My Gram - it somehow messed around so much that it blocked CPU to 28w and 37 multiplier - changes PL1/2 time limits and much more - it really goes deep down. Also it messed around in some hidden by default windows energy plan settings. Now it does some magic - but it's really changing things you wouldn't expect.

Not everyday I see the editors/writers from Pcworld use their brain. If you buy Razer’s insane $1337 mouse, I will be very disappointed in you I remember the first time I bought a Razer mouse. Inside the box was a letter printed on fancy vellum paper. It opened with, “Welcome to the cult of Razer.” It appears that this isn’t just a cheeky marketing slogan, Razer means it genuinely. Because only brainwashed cult members would pay $1337 for a mouse. It is, in a word, repugnant. In a more accessible word, it’s greedy. In a more all-encompassing and entirely appropriate word, the Razer Boomslang 20th Anniversary Edition is bullshit. Razer is taking pre-orders for the mouse in four days. If you buy one, and I want you to imagine this in the most overbearing and judgmental dad voice possible, I will be very disappointed in you.

Hi Sorry I really misunderstood your first question, better fans and quieter 🤔 I haven’t heard anything likely in the forum, better thermal paste, metal liquid or PTM7950 pad and de-liding CPU is the only thing I can come up, but this model laptop won’t ever ran quieter, it has a hot CPU no commonly made for laptop is for PC. That’s kind of impossible. Although you can run quieter laptop by using Hybrid System (switch automatically iGPU instead of dedicated GPU when not needed, that requires unlocked BIOS MENU) and setting up power mode for “Entertainment”, on higher performance it won’t be quieter. About watercooler, you can make your own though, if you know how to and have some solder machine. I made my own Watercooler because that 3rd party company who made that watercooler is no so efficient and is too expensive. With less than $10 dollars you can make your own. it requires some experience and a lot of patience but the reward is greater. If like you can Buy your own copper pipes, connectors, silicone tube and a simple waterpump and cools better than factory. (My own Watercooler) First model - 1 pipe water cooler system 2nd model - 2 copper pipes watercooler system. (Made a joint, much better, so I don’t have to use 4 pipes for intake and exit. (the good thing is that I can close the Bottom Cover. A flat pipe of 3mm is necessary to properly close the bottom lid of the laptop if you want to carry it around. ) Aliexpress - has some fast and easy solution to apply a new water cooler. This must be soldered not cold solder or metal glue.

my dudes, we can consider ourselves lucky to have covered all our bases with regards to hardware. our 4090s/5090s will stay at the top of the pack until 2028, lets just hope they dont go up in flames / melt until then 🤣 boy am i glad that i got my 32TB of pcie4 m.2 ssds plus took care of the ram binning with 10+ kits back in the summer of last year. prices were at rock bottom then ("good old times"). and even though i overpaid for my 5090 at +25% above minimum pricing (3300€ vs. 2650€ incl. 19% VAT and shipping), a whopping two thirds of it (2100€) was made up by the sale price of the 4090 😅 besides, even when the suprim currently IS available, its offered at 4000+€, absolutely insane... long story short: i guess compared to other unlucky users who are currently planning on building a rig, were pretty well off at least for the time being...always good to count and be generally aware of your blessings 🫠 mixed news on the ram tuning front: still cannot reach anything above 7600 stable but at 7600 im now reaching way way tighter timings than before, actually best ive had thus far overall on this mobo. final results pending, as u all know ram tuning takes quite a while...

Usually I don't believe much in whatever apps supplied by vendors making claims about battery life improvement - but what does My Gram do? On idle it decreases the CPU package from 0.5-0.8 to 0.3-0.7 watts - that's really crazy low. I left my 2025 16 Gram Pro in idle with browser open and display off prevented for 2 hours and it only dropped 6.1 % battery - screen brightness at 30% which should be around 150 nits. That would be well over 30 hours of battery life. Surfing the web and browsing I usually got without gram about 6-7% per hour, but with my gram only 5% per hour - meaning around 20 hours batttery duration in real life. Yeah not panther lake levels but not far off. Wifi/Bluetooth both on. System drive Lexar NM790 - the lowest power use NVME with Devsleep (lowest) enabled. I really do wonder what windows settings does My gram change.

I know I’m really late to the game here, but I finally got around to installing the danske 128gb (ram) bios on my p870km1. I did the 9900kf pin mod. Upgrade to WiFi 6 with WiFi 6 antennas and installed 2 rtx 3080 with the stock vapor chamber heatsink hits 89c under furmark at 4k, 71c with Fortnite max settings at 240fps at 4k res. My issue is even with the modified inf i don’t have gsync. And the bios reads vga unknown. I’m not sure what to do at this point. Origin eon17slx

I think I know what you mean, sorry for the question but how do they call the other keyboards that the RGB light can be individually assigned? Yes we do have the same Laptop model. 👍🏻 I hope can you get a good keyboard from the store.

Just the generic Intel ones. I'm using Win10.

While I missed the boat on the best pricing for 8000MT+ RAM, I am happy I spent the 150 to 180 for each of the nine 4TB NVMe SSDs I got over 2025. I went nuts on the Acer GM7000 SSDs. I did a quick calculation, I have over 100TBs in SSDs (spread across 8TB, 4TB, 2TB and 1TB drives) in operation. If I were to buy them in today's prices, I'd have to spend over 30K. Damn! I guess being a frugal data hoarder has it benefits once in awhile.

I thought this was a good (and accurate) assessment of the situation. We are getting screwed just because the industry is run by opportunistic trash scumbags and they are doing it just because they can. What goes around comes around and payback is going to be a real b**** for all of them before its over. Once the illogical AI slop build-out has run its course they are not going to have a product to sell because there is will be not enough demand for it at the inflated price and they'll have to roll back prices to mid-2025 levels or go out of business. AI is not bad. AI development companies are bad. Their motives and methods are wicked and they will reap what they are sowing.

Unfortunately, that did not solve it for me. I also got a thread at the Lenovo forums going about this, but no solutions yet that work. https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-P-and-W-Series-Mobile-Workstations/Lenovo-P16-Gen-3-Screen-brightness-controls-fail-when-using-dedicated-graphics-only/m-p/10020358

Which version of the nvidia driver are you using. Do you have a download link to the version that works fine on yours?

Hi everyone, I recently bought a 980m graphics card for my M17xR4 as my old 970m developed problems. I fitted it to the heatsink and it seemed to fit ok, but on starting the laptop I get 8 beeps. Is this simply the wrong graphics card for the laptop or is likely another issue? The card doesn't seem to have the usual x-shaped plate on the back like my last one and instead has a copper backplate (image url inserted below). https://imgur.com/a/lh7JkFS Thanks in advance

Considering a corporation's primary mission is responsibility to stock holders and maximum profitability, I'm not shocked. China is a massive market with a gargantuan trade surplus with a voracious need for CPUs and GPUs as they continue to advance technologically. Match made in heaven. ------------------ As for Intel cancelling the 290k... Makes sense considering the 270k is basically a 285k and the 290k would just be a slightly binned 285k. 250k gets 4 more e-cores over the 245k New memory support for the 270k and 250k from 6400 to 7200..... I expect the 270k to come in priced right in between the 285k and 265k. Performance per value gets a nice bump. There is also the possibility Intel had yield issues with the 290k but that's pure speculation...

Here's the consumer nothingburger from Intel. Intel have more than enough feeding China with pricy server CPUs. So as you can see, not only Nvidia and AMD are in love with China. Every tech company making microprocessors love China. Corruption and greed around the microprocessor industry have no limits! And none have the balls to stop the madness. https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-reportedly-cancels-core-ultra-9-290k-plus-but-keeps-270k-250k-arrow-lake-refresh-skus Based on our information, Intel explains the change as a shift toward performance-per-value. The company plans to keep the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus in its lineup, according to materials shared with partners.

There is never a shortage of insanely overpriced trash made for the dumbest people in the world. A year or two ago I would not have believed there would be a human being dumb enough to pay that for a mouse, but now I know they are real and there are enough of them to be dangerous to all of the people or ordinary or greater intelligence. https://www.overclock.net/posts/29556653/

My laptop uses an LVDS internal panel, if I’m not mistaken, and the display signal is routed through the iGPU via NVIDIA Optimus rather than a direct dGPU output. That said, I mostly run it with an external monitor over DisplayPort. I rarely game on the internal display while mobile - in those cases, it’s mainly used for productivity work. With my previous Quadro RTX 3000, I didn’t notice any significant LVDS or Optimus-related bottleneck. Performance was nearly identical between the internal panel and the external monitor. In any case, now that I’ve installed the new card, I’ll see how it behaves in real-world use.

Do you need a new mouse? 🙄 It's inflation in the branding "Limited Edition" nowadays. Razer try also to maximize profits from stupids. Razer plans to sell 1,337 units of its new limited edition gaming mouse for $1,337 each

Thank you for your help. I guess I’m still a bit surprised that a keyboard where each key can be assigned an RGB value is still considered a 4Zone keyboard? Do I understand that right? It also sounds like we have the same model, the Origin EON17-X, correct?

What do you do for drivers, just use the generic Intel ones? Also, what OS are you running?