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I understand, they’re right. Sometimes it’s really difficult and takes a very, very long time to find the fault. Sometimes the quickest fix is to replace the motherboard, but it depends on the situation of course. The only thing that comes to my mind that you can do yourself at home in this case what I remember a similar situation where (I’m not sure if it was an R3 or R4) the system started running unstable after an emergency shutdown, what helped was flashing the EC controller’s flash memory for example using a CH341A programmer. But that’s about as far as you can go at home and it costs almost nothing, just a little time.

@Mr. Fox @Papusan I'm back to desktop after a small break of 15 years. The laptops don't cut anymore. Anyway I repurposed the RTX 4070 Super eGPU for Raptor Lake Refresh 14400f and measly 2x8GB DDR4 3200MTps, MSI bomber B760M AX211 WIFI mobo and 512GB SN3000 QLC drive as costs for DDR5 16GB 6400 has driven up to 500$ for basic ones and good ones sell for 1200$ per stick.I got them for 600$ including the case. Too many issues with eGPU on windows 11 and stopped trusting Defender to go for Kaspersky Standard AV as I started getting few indie games and apps early for review for my youtube channel. All of the desktop are in test bench as I'm sick with HFM which my sister had couple of weeks ago. Stock RM1 Cooler can't sustain 120W and 45C ambient. Tweaked few settings in TS and uploaded few unofficial DLSS 5 mod into Miles Morales (lot of artifacts indoor lights/env), NFS MW Redux (much more cleaner graphics/UI).

I skipped Windows 11 25h2 for 23H2 with Sept 2026 updates and runs much smoother than 25H2/26H2.

Update: The repair shop tried to repair the Quadro RTX 3000, but unfortunately they couldn’t get it working. I did not ask what part was shorted. I also had them check the laptop’s charging behavior. The laptop works normally if I connect the charger before turning the laptop on. However, if the laptop is already running on battery and I plug the charger in, the charger LED comes on and then fades out, and the charger shuts off. It stays off until I unplug it from the wall and reconnect it. I tested another known good 240W charger and it does the same thing. It also happens with the MXM GPU removed. The repair shop said it’s likely something in the motherboard’s charging/DC-in circuit, but it’s a difficult board level issue to trace and there aren’t readily available replacement parts. They recommended that I just use the charger normally connect it before powering the laptop on and leave the issue alone rather than spending money trying to repair it. So for now I’m keeping the M17x R4 with the 765M and leaving the RTX alone and i might come back for it🫤.

Cicichen gave up on the 2 in 1 (watercooling and air) powerful RTX 40XX heatsink so I bought the powerful fan. I hope he can do the watercooling only for the CPU side with better heatpipes.

3DM11 is the GOAT benchmark. Good choice.

I have no idea I do not have any of them. I think what is more important is the surface size of the radiator. I could not imagine that a laptop heatsink can dissipate that much heat.

For your spare time, an interview that views AI as an 'evolutionary history' event (45:15 and on). It may be that, no because of its qualities per se but because of the way influential people treat it. For a technology that has a risk of quality degradation with increased training on synthetic (non-human generated) data (doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07566-y) the prediction of its future performance seems rather difficult. Present capabilities cannot predict future capabilities. And of course, it's not reasoning, it's predicting numbers that are matched to characters. It can be useful for finding patterns and making educated guesses based on its training corpus. The decisions of powerful people to treat AI as a deity will however be evolutionary history. And not in a good way.

I see, now, thank you! They both do need heatsink modification, as they both have 5 inductors on the right side. I'll talk to Cicichen. Other than that, should there be any other problems?

Hi, yes of course there’s nothing special about it. However this only applies if your card shows the exact same symptoms mentioned here. Before you begin I recommend practicing the procedure a bit first, because you’ll need to work very quickly when searching for the defective component. So first using the IPA spray mentioned earlier create a thin layer of frost on the card (simply spray until it becomes visible). Second very quickly connect two half-discharged batteries in series (these will replace the lab. power supply and since the internal resistance of a half-discharged battery is high the voltage will immediately drop to a few tenths of a volt under load, but the current will be sufficient) using pieces of wire to the card’s power contacts (be careful to observe the correct polarity, otherwise the Zener diode will trigger and the test will be ineffective). Very quickly after connecting the batteries the fine frost on the defective (short-circuited) component will immediately melt due to the heating and that’s all. Dry it by blowing on it or using a paper tissue for example and repeat the process from the other side. If the test result is unclear add another cell a half-discharged battery and repeat the entire process again. If it’s just a small ceramic capacitor, you can remove it mechanically. For other components unfortunately, you’ll need a hot air gun and a soldering iron. (Instead of IPA spray, I prefer to use a vaporizer with soldering rosin and it’s worked perfectly for many years. A thermal camera does a good work too. I use a Diametral lab. power supply and a METEX multimeter both of which have been running without a single issue for 25 years just for the curious. )

Alienware 14 R1. 3DMark 11 score of 4,568. Please let me know if this is good or bad for what the laptop is, lol. This was my first time using 3DMark. I decided to use 3DMark 11 since my graphics card is on DX11 and that version of 3DMark is free. Benchmark was ran at my laptops native resolution of 1366x768p. Hopefully I have done it correctly. Link to 3DMark results: https://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/17007367 Screenshots attached.

That's really strange. I've never had a filter crack before. I'm wondering if maybe it had a defect. Using the chiller has never affected mine and it gets close to freezing point.

I would say yes, if the MXM interface of these cards is the standard one. You might need to watch out for the heatsink screw holes + these cards probably have a beefy VRM on the right side of the card (m2X00m) cards have only 2 inductors, these might have 4 or 5 so heatsink modification might be required. Just like the RTX4000 MXM-A series of cards that X-vision sells Here is an M2200 : and here is the 4070 MXM Also what is nice is that you can use a 4K or 4K dreamcolor LCD with the zbook 15 g3 and still keep the integrated graphics to drive the LCD. Might be worth the upgrade to utilize the extra GPU power since the 6th gen CPU you have will limit FPS regardless of display resolution.

Honestly pushing for more value is harder than I realized, have to push down the imposter syndrome and take a risk. Looks like they are targeting October 16th but they will have to agree to my salary demand. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On another note, even if the 5090 was 2,000 I still wouldnt pick one up if I didnt have a WVP2 in hand to go with it, too much risk. It doesnt make sense to not have it. Looks like I get to drain the loop this weekend. One of the filters cracked (the glass) likely the cold air hitting it with the hotter water on startup? I have enough tubing thanks to @Mr. Fox recommending mcmaster I bought around 25 feet of tubing for exactly things like this. Was able to patch it and I do have a cup under the leak but for now it looks like it stopped leaking.

The only thing more stupid than that price is a moron willing to pay that. There are more imbeciles than I ever thought there could be.

Thanks brothers🙂 Asus just increased the prices again on their US store... Vanilla 5090 Astral is now close to $5500. If you can find one at MSRP in the US. https://www.asus.com/us/motherboards-components/graphics-cards/all-series/filter?Category=NVIDIA&Spec=354488 5,999 euros = $6,746,78 USD The price of the GeForce RTX 5090 only knows one direction. At the beginning of September, the GeForce RTX 5090 exceeded the price mark of 5,000 euros...

Hi Matt, I'm not sure about heatsinks for those cards. You used to be able to buy 5 pipe upgraded heatsinks from cicichen on ebay, but I can't see any listings from him now You also want at least 240W power supply...300W is better though. The original 180W won't run the MXM card at full power. I did the 120hz display at same time as 980m and its still going well.

These days I only check ebay for screen parts to try and build a 1200p panel assembly for the Raider. Luckily display parts are dirt cheap compared to RAM, SSD, CPUs and GPUs, so its probably a matter of time until something gets parted out with what I want. There is one ebay reseller that did have parts up there but wants 4x-6x what they should cost and was unwilling to budge on price. Back when I first started WoW I mostly multiboxed. Mages had a nice little trick where Frost Nova would gaurantee crits Arcane Explosion so I could rotate a Frost Nova every 2-3 seconds to dish out really good AOE damage. It was enough to run 5 man dungeons mostly on my own healing with a priest.

good to know im not the only bonkers hardware head here 😄 been following the mvolt+ development closely and downloading every new version once it dropped, but havent really gotten back into GPU tuning yet, aside from playing around with the tool to check functionality. havent finished tuning my RAM yet after the BIOS update (just takes sooo damn long, ugh!) and also been playing RE franchise like a madlad. between that, my lil toddler, work and just everyday life, aint nobody got time for anything anymore! but yeah, enjoying my hardware setup to the fullest whenever i have an hour or two to spare....god i hope nothing gives out on me anytime soon in this horrible market LOL but so far everything humming along smoothly, just need to do some dusting it seems (high airflow has its downsides i guess 😄) btw, looking to upgrade my Pixel 7 Pro pretty soon, eagerly awaiting the OnePlus 16 launch on 12-Oct, pretty much ticks all the boxes for me in a phone. IKIK, its likely only gonna be a China only release, but who cares, ive imported china phones before and was happy i did it 🙂

K|NGP|N coming back to the OC scene: "K-Pop Kung Fu Class" as a reason for switching studios was not on my bucket list of reasons to move to another location.... Looks like he's going with Asus..... New OC channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClS4F_eKD3PCihwI9ZvrdwQ Welcome back! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Same boat.... I thought about selling but I switched to my Power Devil 9070xt then 5080 in my main rig for a few days and watching those frames seriously drop and sitting at 100% util more often than not in WoW 4k ultra 10 sent me scurrying back to my 5090. Yeah, I could pocket $3-4k+ profit right now and then what? Sit around and bitch whine and moan about being capped out and not getting the performance I want for the next 12-18 months just to see the prices of the 6090 requiring a kidney assuming it launches by Q1 2028? I'd rather enjoy the here and now with state of the art performance for the next 15 months if not more.... Have you given your 5090 the mvolt+ treatment yet? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- That is awesome news @Reciever! Know your worth and demand no less. Sometimes you have to be proactive and other times those around you will see and acknowledge your quality work and reward you thusly. Now, just go ahead and finance that 5090..... 🤣 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Glad to see you taking the small, but meaningful, steps to right the ship and being able to drive again has to feel good. Losing self autonomy is never a good thing on any scale and driving is a big one. Just keep trying like you said to stick around and keep us up to date on the tech sector doom and gloom. 🙂 --- I am not shocked at that EVGA report. Nvidia and Jensen needed AIBs and gamers years ago but at every chance afforded to them well before the AI BS, they made sure to put the screws to AIBs and cook the books with crypto and continue to push prices as far as able while casting their illusions of MSRP and deliver less for more each and every cycle. EVGA went out on a high note with their GPUs and Motherboards and downsized to peripherals. I don't blame them one bit. --- The cable, according to TG data collected so far with the WVP2, is the primary issue regardless of MSI burning up or other makers like the PNY reported a day or two before this one. It was an Asrock PSU. In the comments: He literally recommended over and over to his friend to get a WVP2 or at least a better 3.1 compliant PSU. With the WVP2 I am pretty sure he would have immediately seen a high imbalance on a pin or two but without a WVP2, or a 3.1 PSU that reports pin monitoring or an Astral. Without any of these reporting protections, you are basically piddling blindly in the wind every time you use your 5090. Before my WVP2 and MSI sending me an Ai 1600T PSU, I purposely used the included tentacle just in case for warranty claims. Switched to the MSI PSU and its included 12vhpwr cable keeping MSI completely responsible for the warranty chain and then added a WVP2 and their warranty on top of it for extra added support. De8auer said they haven't had a single report of a WVP2 burning up yet from WVP2 to GPU connection. At this point, anyone running a 5090 without a WVP2, a pin monitoring compatible PSU or at the least using the tentacle to keep any burning issues warranty claims valid are playing with fire. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ditto, I'm holding onto my 5090 for at least another year if not more. Zero reason to sell. I'll re-evaluate the landscape next October/Nov when the 6000 series is potentially on the horizon. Hopefully the AI bubble will have popped or at least deflated a little by then. That makes sense with the 5090FE. The value proposition of it getting it for retail was its main draw by far. Price not being an issue, Astral is a sick card and removing price as a factor, I'd take an Astral over my Vanguard all day everyday on industrial aesthetics alone albeit I did find my Vanguard had the best silicon in my testing between it, the Astral and the Ventus but I would have to rerun those tests in the here and now with mvolt+. Whew, I'm glad you kept the overall better sample with the best fclk. It did seem the best on paper. Have you done any 8000+ testing yet? I agree on pressure. I was having issues with the delidded 9850X3D and the TG Heatspreader with 8000+ testing suddenly failing. One flaw I've found with the TG HS is heat expansion and cooling eventually loosens up the screws a bit. This might not be a problem with a tight pairing and a block keeping the pressure where it needs to be, but right now I'm still sorting out the Z-height issues so the pairing isn't as tight as it could or should be atm so eventually over the course of hours or days, my memory settings will fail. I dug through some older AM5 compliant heatsinks I have on the shelf and found a set of shorter by ~2.5mm non-spec standoffs I plan on swapping in to compensate to see if that helps along with shoring up proper pairing pressure to get temps to be a bit better. At the moment, I am not super pleased with the TG HS, but we'll see after this final testing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I still need to get back to the G16 for some Bios tuning and testing but my desktop has been my focus atm. Yeah, three of them showed up. Two sold for $3500-3700. One was delisted but it had scam written all over it at the time. Do a completed sales history search on 9955HX3D 5090. Purchasing from an official outlet definitely was the way to go and get that three year warranty. With the way the market is going and offerings, it will be the best overall for the next few years. We won't see a 6000 mobile refresh till 2nd or 3rd quarter or 2028 at this rate. I plan on playing both retail and forever. I've always played Paladins since launch but I also alt druids and hunters from time to time. During Vanilla, I was all about my Paladin, priest and hunter. Priest had Benediction in Vanilla and Hunter had Rhok'Delar. I was guild leader with a top raiding guild back in the day and once we had MC and BWL on farm, loots eventually trickled down since we ran DKP globally and once everyone was geared up enough I let alts tag along for runs to get some good loot too. We had a server first Hand of Ragnaros but could NOT get the second half of the binding to drop for Thunderfury! 🤣 I burned out halfway through BWL and went casual after that. WoW stopped being fun and became more a job and managing egos. I'm pretty sure I am going to main a druid this time around and alt a hunter again.

Hi, forgot to reply back to this post. this was the absolute highest I was able to get, posted in windows and detecting a clock of 100.25 in cpuz.

Hi! This might not be the exact topic, so if it isn't please tell me and I'll make a separate thread! I would like to upgrade a Zbook 15 G3 and I'm only interested in Optimus Switching, not BIOS Discrete mode. I asked a representative from Aetina for a Quote to my country and, in the meantime, she gave me the datasheets for the 2 models I'm interested in, namely Ampere RTX A2000 8 GB and RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell 45TGP. Do you thik they will work just by swapping the old one? I'm currently using an upgraded M2200 from the latter model, with the NVCleanstall driver mod. Thanks! I'm attaching the datasheets

The Max bandwidth is 128Gbps

This is an ADTLINK PCle 5.0 Oculink to PCle X16 Extension Cable EGPU Adapter For NUC / ITX / STX / Notebook PC Mini-PC M.2 NVMe Slot . I just found this on AliExpress: https://a.aliexpress.com/_mMYzyFv working with this MXM Adapter