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A turdbook is a turdbook, is a turdbook. It doesn't matter what name is on the outside, it's all just dung on the inside.

Guaranteed... it will be slower.

If its not the heatsink itself you might look at the pipes! Just for reference....

Very nice upgrade. I believe MX-4 is an outdated thermal paste. I have an RTX3000 and with MX-4 and PK-3 temps were a problem. I switched to PTM 7950. Now the gpu tops at 75 degress with the hotspot getting to 84. I have an AW 17 so it uses the stock fun curve.

When the newest is an flop. Or better say an failure.

Windows 8.1 emerges as the performance winner after six generations of the OS are pitted against each other Newest is always better bro @Mr. Fox. Can't beat innovations gen after gen. I wonder how good Win 12 will be. One thing for sure... It will be even slower than Win 11 if the progress and innovations continue from RR (Redmond R**********)

Hello guys.Do you know,is a 7730(40)'s cooling system better than 7530?Or i will see also 85+ degrees on cpu (on working load) ?

No good, still have heat rising up to the 100c mark, I will proceed to try and undervolt the card. I have realised I have made an error, heat sink was cut, I have just ordered a replacement, I did not realised these contained liquid, I will look to the chassis to allow an uncut sink 😔 that can be the only cause of the heat not transferring I assumed they were solid copper.

There is another consequence coming out of this landscape that few vendors seem to be accounting for. This pricing behavior fundamentally changes upgrade psychology. For decades, the PC and workstation market relied on a simple pattern. CPUs advanced, prices were tolerable, and users chased the next generation because the platform cost made sense. Memory was an afterthought, not a gating factor. That is no longer true. When customers are forced to buy systems loaded with 64GB, 96GB, or 128GB of memory just to remain functional, that memory stops being expendable. It becomes the anchor. The sunk cost people protect. The result is predictable. Instead of chasing a new CPU with marginal gains, users will sit on older systems that are already fully populated with expensive memory. Upgrading to a new platform now means rebuying RAM at inflated prices for single-digit performance improvements. That math does not work. So unit sales slow. Refresh cycles stretch. The traditional excitement around new CPUs fades. The market shifts from progression to entrenchment. Ironically, the attempt to extract more value per system accelerates the opposite outcome. Fewer systems sold. Longer lifespans. Less incentive to move forward. In practical terms, memory pricing has become a brake on innovation. People will not discard fully loaded, capable machines just to step into a new socket with unaffordable RAM and negligible gains. They will optimize around what they already own. That is how a market stops moving forward not because technology stalled, but because economics made progress irrational.

I would also be interested in this method! The method I use probably interferes the least with the BIOS without changing too many things.

Ok after a strip down I've noticed 2 chips/ resistors that are sitting proud and in wondering if these are causing very low heat transfer to the heatsink itself ? I will look to Dremel the heatsink to slot these in better

Good morning all, System Spec Unlocked bios A12 CPU - 3940xm - OC level 3 (padded using 11.4cfm fan with liquid metal) PSU - 330w current gpu - Quadro RTX 3000 6GB (previously 980M) Ram - 32 gig corsair Vengeance running on SG mode standard 60hz screen (i have a 165hz 2k panel waiting to install when i am brave 40 pin connector) Ok, i have decided to upgrade the laptops GPU one final time, i have installed a DELL version RTX 5000 16 gb that i picked up, installation seemed to go fine. i had to take off a slight bit of the heat sink end to allow fitting to the card, the card shows in bios and in device manager, the issue stars with heat, i am running a alienware m17 x r4 gpu heat sink that is 3 pipe, i am using artic mx4 thermal paste, the temps slowly rise to 100c , ive tried running the fans at full speed and it does not make any difference to heat dissapation. currently unsure if the drivers are causing the issue or the heat sink is no good for the card, very much at my witts end on this one, is there anyone out there who knows more than i do, i did consider undervolting the card itself, but as im unsure why the cooler is not working to cool, i also have a KLIM pad cooler with 4 x fans. on the first time i switched off the system and rechecked the thermal paste the card felt very hot but the heat sink end did not feel as though it was transferring the heat along the pipes ? has anyone else had a similar issue. any help would be much appreciated.

BUMP. Price 600€ without any GPUs so you can upgrade to your own Quadro RTX 4000, 5000 or GeForce RTX 3060, 3070. Someone wanted it for 600€ without a GPU but he isn't answering since 5 days. I, of course will include all of the heatsinks for this laptop that I own. I'm selling in Leboncoin because less fees than ebay.

Question for you guys, how do you edit the 870 bios for the automatic driver installations? I could do without the NVIDIA INF modding

A quick preview to it. Seems like the vapor chamber is really that thin

Now that I've been able to test the 14" gram with Arrow Lake I would suggest you add the models with that CPU to your watch list. It's impressively frugal with power under light load while also capable of good performance when needed. It can match my 2024 gram 17 Pro in speed but with less fan noise. I'm now thinking about upgrading to a 2025 gram 17. If rumours are correct the 2026 models may be more expensive as AI training is pushing up demand (and hence prices) for RAM.

btw. any bios suggestions? the newer ones fixing those spectre n meltdown stuff but will cost massive performance, so when possible will avoid, which is the last recommended one?

AI hardware demand could push consumer tech prices up 20% in 2026 AI's appetite for chips is squeezing the market Exactly what pc consumers want.... More Junk, perversity. And more lies. Instagram CEO says in the age of AI, you can't assume what you see online is real Exec calls for "credibility signals" as the line between authentic and synthetic images disappears AI image processing on X Grok creates sexualized content featuring women and minors With Grok's new image function, users on X are creating masses of sexualized content featuring women and children.

https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI for those who want the crappy new OS, but make it less crappy This scripts alone (without any of the extra manual tweaks) removed about 30 processes from running at startup.

Corsair reverses course and honors gaming PC order after $700 price hike uproar — order was erroneously flagged, but the company sends a coupon to the buyer to snag the PC at the original price Yup,had they many other choices? Greed come at a price. . And yeah, the Corsair mod team worked damn hard to delete threads all over on their reddit forum. Firefighting everywhere. Their genuine staff couldn't have done a better job😀 Many years since Jensen talked about 8K gaming. Maybe we will see 60FPS as the latest and greatest. Both for castrated low end and overpriced high end. The only difference will be if you prefer 1080P or 8K. I'm sure bro @Mr. Fox drooooling by the great news😀 XPS for the winners🤮 Dell could bring back XPS laptops powered by Intel Panther Lake at CES 2026 Will Inspiron, Latitude, Precision, and OptiPlex also make a comeback?

With time they will lock down every loopholes. They won't give up. Rather they have geared up to make the life worse for computer users.... Nothing like the good ol' days. Microsoft silently kills Windows and Office phone activation and forces online activation with a Microsoft account

Go back to Windows 10 LTSC from Winduhz 11 cancer without doing a clean install... in-place "downgrade" (actually an upgrade) without having to do a clean install.