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Oddly enough, again, the CPU magically worked. I just allowed it to sit there and now it posts as if nothing happened. Even with the NVIDIA Quadro P3000 installed with modded drivers. Genuinely, no idea what I did.

I'm looking for the ways to improve cooling on my Clevo P751TM1-G having i9-9900K + RTX 2080. But the thread is useful for P75xTMx(-G)/P75xDMx(-G)/P775TMx(-G)/P870DM(-G)/X170KM-G/etc too, as the fans are physically the same in all of them. The CPU in my Clevo is undervolted and configured to have the all-core frequency of 4.2GHz (sometimes having to set it to 4.1GHz). Higher than that makes it run too hot. Given that the CPU's default all-core frequency is 4.7GHz and can be overclocked all the way up to 5GHz, there's certainly a huge theoretical performance improvement potential. Would be grateful for any recommendations / tips! :-) In particular, I'm curious about the potential fans upgrade. The default fans both on the CPU-side (Left) & GPU-side (Right) in P751TM1-G are: ADDA, 6-31-P7753-100, 180925, 00DM3, DC 12V, 0.5A, 17 leaves I'm quite sure there should be various different models of fans that are swap-in-compatible with the Clevo's default fans. Has anyone upgraded their fans to more powerful ones? If yes, could you share the model names? Here's how I would prioritize power vs. noise: 1. Ideal case - a model that is both more powerful/better-cooling and quieter :-) 2. A more powerful and better-cooling model, without caring about its noise. 3. A model that is the same as the Clevo's default fans in performance, but quieter. PS: Fans is the most obvious upgrade idea that comes in mind, but are there any other possible cooling-hardware update options or other ideas?

I've seen an old post of rainer124 claiming, that he got a 980m to work in a p150hm/p170hm, already dm'ed him about it, very curious about his response

I already told this won't work. The BIOS is so wacky and strange, it'll accept max GTX 680M or HD 7970M in the master slot. Clevo made the worse bios ever for X7200, D900F and P170HM... Anything new won't work. I already tried on the X7200. For some reasons the Maxwell cards in master slot work for Clevo M980 and X8100.

I mean, sure its bottlenecked but it will be anyway by the first gen i7 even the 990x so wouldnt mean that much.

Nah, wanna keep my d900f. The x8100 has a mobile cpu. This adapter claims to use full x16 bandwidth

ExpressSlot uses less bandwidth than the MXM slot. I do not recommend any eGPU configuration as you need an external power and your desktop GPU will get severely bottlenecked by the bandwidth. mPCIe is faster than ExpressSlot by not a lot too. MXM slot = 2.0 x16 SLi in use = 2.0 x8 Just get a Clevo X8100 instead.

I heard from another user its x16 2.0?

Anything newer that's plugged in the master MXM slot of the LVDS laptop won't work. GTX 770M, 780M, K3100M, K5100M, 880M aren't working too! Yes you can use eGPU from the ExpressSlot but the speed is at PCIE 2.0 x2, it's worse than the slave MXM slot which runs at x8. For some reasons, the X8100 accepts GTX 980M, M5000M, 780M, etc...

Cuz I wanna have a reason to keep it, its a great machine ^^

Hmm... what about one of those weird mxm to pcie egpu adapters?

No you can't do anything. I asked for modders to find the solution for that for the X7200 but no one answers, it's a lost cause. I was able to do HD 7970M (green PCB, no audio) + RTX 3000 and it worked. I was losing a bit of performance maybe because my CPU wasn't Overclocked.

I've seen a gtx 880m working in this, was a listing on ebay so it's definitely gonna work if done right.

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I bought a nice shiny 4930MX for my Ranger....wouldn't post Cpu's didn't fail a lot back then, but it does happen.

Microsoft is ruining their operating system because their focus is mostly on low power trashbooks and phone processors. They can't seems to understand the difference between Jokebooks and powerful desktops. The arm and power saving aera has to stop. Before it's too late. Windows 11 is secretly throttling your apps - here's how to catch it Windows 11 quietly slows background apps to save power. It's easy to find throttled processes, and sometimes, it's better to take back control of your CPU. Windows 11 throttles background apps to save power, and it's not always right about which ones deserve it. Power Throttling at the system level and Efficiency Mode per process in Task Manager handle this. With Windows version 25H2, both have gotten more aggressive, even on desktops that aren't on battery. Yup, everything is all about trashbooks and power savings. When will they start understand that most people want a working and powerful pc instead of a pc that's always on standby? Is a pc meant to be off all time bro @Mr. Fox?🤔 Microsoft quietly improved Windows 11 25H2, 24H2 Modern Standby Microsoft has new default settings for Modern Standby and S3. There are also several improvements under the hood on Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2.

Yeah, wanted to get my d900f to work with it tho. Only has one mxm slot so is there noting I can do?

You can't D900F and X7200 have issues with their bios. There's no EC problem and no whitelist. Just a weird Phoenix SecureCore BIOS... I gave up and I'm selling the X7200. The best way is to do AMD HD 7970M 1.2 blue PCB in master + GTX 980M in slave. Even the Alienware M17X R3/R4 can use Nvidia Quadro T1000, Pascal P4000/P5000 in the master slot with an eDP screen.

Dud you try that yourself? I wanna get a gtx 980m to work in my clevo d900f, but it also seems to be hardlocked at the gtx 680m... 😪

Based on the PCIe topology of this generation, it appears that the PCH is not connected to the SSDs. Instead, the NVMe devices are connected directly to the CPU (i.e., two are connected to the IOE tile, and one is connected to the SoC tile). IOE is shared with Thunderbolt 5 and dGPU; PCH is pretty idle from what I can see (WLAN and SDXC reader only). It's not a surprise to see a bandwidth difference across different tiles.

Relying upon Windoze scheduler, GameBar/XBOX bloatware or AMD drivers isn't going to produce consistent results. I don't even try. I decide for myself and choose the behavior manually using CPUSetSetter. It works fantastic if you haven't already tried it. I create hotkeys and can test on the fly to see in realtime what CPU core mask works best.

Hello all, I just upgraded to a new Windows 11 partition and I can't find anywhere my registered software copy of fan control. It's still working and installed on the Windows 10 partition. I like to know if someone could PM me the software. I do have a license and all others Obsidian tools. I only need the fancontrol. Thanks a lot.

Hmmm. May I smell coming inflation in the US ? Yup, I think so.

165fps does seem pretty high unless he is light on addons or not active during the really busy times. I also cannot really buy the 142fps (9800X3D) vs 98fps (9950X) either. I wonder if WoW had its threads across both CCDs. Back when I tested the 7945HX3D it seemed like the drivers + Game Bar mode did not always pin the game to CCD0 so I resolved to just using Process Lasso. 285K in simple 200S boost mode continues to outperform any laptop or desktop chip I tested in the past. No lag or stutter even in the busy areas or raids. His article also has no mention of Arrow Lake which was a pretty mature platform by late 2025 so at least worth a paragraph of discussion in my opinion.. I guess a 9950X3D2 is probably not going to give a meaningful performance boost in WoW either.

He updated the design again, he did every improvements. It costs 135USD to purchase. The heatsink made the GPU lost like more than 20C degrees by going from 2 to 3 heatpipes with a 55W TDP GPU and it's easily compatible with 120W with adapted adjustments. 3 heatpipes is what a 110-120W GPU uses normally. (Can depend on the core dimensions as well)